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Which language and development/compiler tools (preferably open-source) would be better (easier to learn, consuming less resources) for person, who knows nothing about programming (me)? I have interest in creating several apps, which will be useful for me in Windows 9x, because apps i want don't exist, or requires newer systems, and i also won't loosing time for transferring files between host and VM so much as i need. At least smth like HashTab/OpenHashTab, but for Windows 95-ME (with MD5, SHA-1 and maybe some other checksums). Further maybe i make smth else. Also where i can get useful info (books, discs and so on) about learning language stuff, old winapi, checksums and other useful things?

There was one project a long ago "SH95UPD"

Yep, better to upload it on archive.org

The only collection of Office 97 updates, which i found in web. Thanks!

I'm looking only for latest updates after final service pack (after SR2 for 97, and after SP3 for after Offices). I arleady had this, but it hasn't proper information about included updates and order of setup. Maybe someone had anything else?