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wucsp:
- this is the service pack 1 update --- I didn't think this was needed for Windows 98se ...
This fix is for Windows 98 Gold, (4.10.1998), not for Second Edition.
Download links:
http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/quick-...-q280448-en.zip
q318307 is part of IntelliPoint 4.12 Mouse Software for Windows Me, 98, and NT 4.0
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@MDGx: 5.6.0.8832 also works on 9x OS's.
@All: Expect a bug-fix release tonight.
the_guy
How does it look wioth this bugfix?
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However, if it's not possible to create a universal fix for all of these versions (I have no clue, I know almost nothing about programming) just like for instance KUP patches all file versions and language versions of kernel32.dll than we just have to live with the fact that there is only a US fixed shell32.dll. You can't ask anybody to fix them all seperate. I'm very happy with this fix anyway, also in english.
I think it is possible - at least for most of languages.
Every executable file in Windows 98 has two portions - binary code and resources. While resources are different for all languages, the binary code has only a few variants:
United States (single byte character set)
Middle East (single byte character set, right-to-left writing)
Far East (double byte character set (DBCS))
Thai
More details here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/w...t7/wrkappa.mspx
An analysis for files contained in sesp21a is here: http://old.winpack.org/petr/win98_internat_files.html - this table contains the information about files on distribution CD for specific language.
And regarding the shell32.dll fix. I have not looked at it yet but there are two possibilities in general:
- duplicate the binary patch to the localized file (the binary portion should be the same)
- move all language dependent resources from the original localized file to the new fixed file. With Restorator it means just few cliks (maybe with other resource editors too).
So it is not really big problem.
Regards,
Petr
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there is a sperate DDK for ME.
Interesting. I have the following CDs and DVDs from MSDN:
1009 (Nov 2001) contains:
Windows 98 DDK,
Windows 2000 Driver Development Kit - October 2000 Edition,
Windows XP Driver Development Kit
1009.1 (Feb 2003) contains:
Windows 98 DDK,
Windows 2000 Driver Development Kit - October 2000 Edition,
Windows XP Service Pack 1 Driver Development Kit
1009.2 (May 2003) contains:
Windows XP Driver Development Kit,
Windows Server 2003 Driver Dvelopment Kit
1797 (Oct 2002) contains
Windows .NET Server Release Candidate 1 Driver Development Kit
1968 (Feb 2003) contains:
Windows 98 DDK,
Windows 2000 DDK - October 2000 Edition,
Windows XP SP1 DDK
2426.15 (Jul 2005) contains:
Windows XP SP1 DDK,
Windows Server 2003 with SP1 DDK
There was also nothing in Subscribers download section.
But I see a note in Q322361:
To obtain Windows Me DDK content, download the Microsoft Windows 2000 DDKPetr
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As MGDx probably already hinted at, M$ never provided a Win98 patch for
Q313829 (4.72.3812.600) in any other language but English although such
localized patches should have been made.
But Q313829 exists in many languages:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4...-US/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../AR/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4...-BR/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../CS/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../DA/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../DE/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../EL/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../ES/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../FI/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../FR/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../HE/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../HU/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../IT/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../JA/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../KO/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../NL/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../NO/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../PL/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../PT/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../RU/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../SK/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../SL/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../SV/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../TR/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../TW/q313829.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie4.../CN/q313829.exe
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is the windows me driver kit the same as the windows 98 driver kit?
I have never seen it so probably yes.
Petr
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Regarding slowness, I have experienced that too. But I found that George Breese's PCI Latency Patch (and the registry tweaks he supplies) and his Memory Interleaver had a significant effect in speeding things up. Apparently, many VIA BIOSes do not offer the ability to turn on the memory interleaving feature.
Thank you for your comments.
The PCI Latency Patch is for older chipsets only:
- my chipset contains VT8237R.This version may be unstable on new VIA chipsets if the southbridge chip is not VT8233 or VT8233A or VT8235. Specifically, this version does not identify VIA's newer VT8237 correctly, and might patch the chipset incorrectly as a result.Petr
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I never had any PC VIA/AMD motherboard so I decided to test one very cheap but new one to see how it works with Windows 98 SE.
The configuration is as follows:
Motherboard: GA-K8VM800M-RH with K8M800 chipset (includes UniChrome Pro IGP) and Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
CPU: Sempron 2800+ (Palermo core, 256 KB cache)
RAM: 512 MB DDR400
HDD: WD1600JS-08NCB1 160 GB SATA disk
DVD: TEAC DV-W516GDM
Standard case with power suply, FDD, accessories.
The cost is about $250.
I installed Windows XP - everything OK, Windows Vista RC2 - everything OK but it was not possible to set refresh rate since there is no specific driver for integrated graphics, and then Windows 98 SE.
It was necessary to change the setting of the SATA controller from IDE mode to RAID mode because there is no Win9x driver for SATA IDE but there is driver for SATA RAID. This is recommended by VIA. All other drivers work as expected with one exception - the audio driver supplied by Gigabyte (Realtek WDM driver) caused GPF during driver detection after the reboot. For example:
Date 11/12/2006 Time 21:50
MSGSRV32 caused a general protection fault
in module COMMCTRL.DLL at 0001:00000afc.
Registers:
EAX=36eeec40 CS=1caf EIP=00000afc EFLGS=00000282
EBX=0000fffe SS=1f57 ESP=000070d6 EBP=000070dc
ECX=00000000 DS=1d47 ESI=00020058 FS=0000
EDX=80d736ee ES=0eb6 EDI=0002b242 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 26 89 07 8e 46 0e 26 ff 04 8b c7 1f 5e 5f c9
Stack dump:
ec400e27 70ee000f 29a79e40 36eeec40 0058422e 0e270eb6 9a487268 ec4029a7 422e36ee 0eb60058 00010058 36ee0000 575c3a43 4f444e49 495c5357 445c464eVery often the GPF was in module KRNL386:EXE and in other 16-bit modules. But alwas it was caused by MSGSRV32. It means dead end - Explorer will not start and the only possible thing to do is to shut down Windows.
Then I disabled sound card in BIOS but problems remained - it was not possible to install DirectX9, nUSB caused same MSGSRV32 errors during disk detection.
So I have reinstalled Windows 98 SE with SESP2.1A, IE6.0SP1, all updates, DX9.0c, and then tried to install various sound drivers. At first Windows Update offered a driver (This was for the first time I have seen Win9x driver in Windows Update). It worked. Then I tried Vinyl Audio driver from VIA website. It worked. Then I tried the latest Realtek driver (setup.exe) and again the same problem with MSGSRV32. This time I had the sate before saved by Ghost so it was easy to go back and I tried to install the Realtek driver maanually using the device manager - and voila, everything was correct.
I remember that I had exactly the same problems with Realtek WDM AC97 driver on board with Intel 915P chipset so there is - probably - some conflict between the drive, Windows 98 SE and some hardware configuration.
Has anybody found out what is the reason of those MSGSRV32 errors and how to avoid them?
Other two problem are not so easy to describe.
The first is significant random slowdown of Windows - everything is extremely slow. Even the disk transfer rate drop for short time to < 10 MB/s while standard is 60 MB/s (measured by HDTach 2.70)
The second appeared repeatedly when I pressed backspace in Total Commader several times. Then blue screen with Exception 0E appeared, repeated 5 times, then almost black screen appeared, no mouse, when I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del the task mananager appeared but behind it appeared small window with GPF in VTTimer.exe (part of the video driver) and everything got frozen.
I supposed that there sould be no problems - but there are some.
Has anybody encountered any of these problems and/or does anybody know how to solve them?
This PC is just for testing, I will have it another two days and then it will go away with Windows XP, but I would like to know if this PC is not compatible with Windows 98 SE or I made just some error.
If I will have some time I will also try to use Windows ME, Windows 98 (Gold) and maybe also Windows 95 and OSR2 - to see what VXDs and PDRs will cause faults because of high speed AMD processor.
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Petr if you up to the task of creating a new Service Pack for Windows 98 at least I'm available for help on the Inno Setup part
Thank you very much for the offer hp38guser, we will see if there will be more people wanting to work on the SP. It does not look so so far.
Regards,
Petr
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Can it be update to the latest drivers
What do you mean by this? The file on Rapidshare is:
DriverVer=08/01/2002,2.00.0006.0
File in the post above is
DriverVer=3/1/2006,2.04.0002.0
This Orangeware driver is referenced here: http://www.orangeware.com/developers/faq_usb2.html
and this version can be downloaded by OEMs from http://www.orangeware.com/oemusb2.html
This driver: http://www.orangeware.com/oemusb2.html works with any USB 2.0 controller but is timebombed and available to OEMs only anyway.
Apparently there is no possibility how to obtain this driver. It is bad to know that there is driver that works with SiS motherboards, all new Intel chipsets etc. - but there is no way how to get it. Every $5 USB PCI card has license for USB driver - but motherboards not.
Petr
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The correct way is to add them using Control Panel -> Fonts -> Add Font
My experience is that it is sufficient to copy them to fonts folder and the open the fonts folder either in Control panel or in Eplorer (I hope I remember it correctly)
Petr
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This is what might be needed.I was able to install 3 new device that was usb 2.0 without
any problems.
This is just old version (DriverVer=08/01/2002,2.00.0006.0) of the Orangeware driver mentioned above.
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Microsoft Installer
Why not... it's what M$ uses and besides, you're packaging M$ files...
Do you mean WiX?
MS Installer has also MSP format for distributing patches only.
I have not looked at at all yet.
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For all international developers I have prepared Iexpress tools in all Windows 95, 98 and Me languages as they are specified at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/referen...locversion.mspx
The zip file contains:
ADVPACK.DLL 6.00.2800.1106 - localized
IEXPRESS.EXE 6.00.2800.1106 - localized to 10 languages only: Brazilian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
MAKECAB.EXE 5.1.2600.1106 - always US English
W95INF16.DLL 4.71.704.0 - always US English
W95INF32.DLL 4.71.0016.0 - always US English
WEXTRACT.EXE 6.00.2800.1168 - localized
Most files are from ieak6sp1 for the specific language, wextract.exe is taken from MS updates, some languages has been added (Basque, Catalan, Slovak, Slovenian), some were corrected (Greek wextract.exe).
I hope everything will be OK:
Chinese (Hong Kong) - I never seen any Hong Kong version of IE or update
Vietnamese - I never seen any Vietnamese version of IE or update
Enabled Windows 9x versions (Arabic, Hebrew, Thai) use US English version of Iexpress.
Installation instructions: Just unpack to any folder, add this folder to the path for your convenience, it is not necessary.
Petr
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Edit [March 30 2010]:
Added mirror for all files above [4.58 MB, single ZIP]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/IEXPRS60.ZIP
INF/SED/Iexpress info, guides + tools:
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#INF
Enjoy.
MDGx
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I'm thinking that Gape's Service Pack replaces the original Defrag with a different one. Is the Win ME version of Defrag the one that comes in the Unofficial 98SE Service Pack?
ivman
Just the oldest versions (1.0 to 1.2) contain different Defrag, newer versions like 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 don't.
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Do you think that nUSB could work on Windows 95? Or on Windows 98 (Gold)?
I remember you have mentioned somewhere some generic driver, may I ask you to remind me where is able to obtain that generic driver?
Regards,
Petr
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Hello all supporters, what do you think about the future of the Unofficial Service pack for Windows 98 SE?
The latest list of changes from Gape is dated Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:22:46 +0200:
* Added Q897225 [REG].* Added MSHDC.INF [Q276602].
* Added KBDSP.KBD (Q......).
* Added Q305575 [REG].
* Added "LocalLoadHigh=1" into TWEAKS.INF.
* Added unofficial updates: KRNL386.EXE, UPDATE.SYS, VOLTRACK.VXD (Q.....), GDI.EXE+GDI32.DLL (Q......).
* Added README.TXT.
* Added OLE2.INF, RNA.INF, TIMEZONE.INF, SHELL.INF into SP2.CAB for better slipstreaming.
* Added EXPLORER.EXE (only modified for 256 color tray icons) into SP2.CAB.
* Added fix for properties pause.
* Updated VIP.386 [Q263899].
* Updated KB891711.EXE [u891711-Feb2005].
* Updated Metapad to 3.51.
* Updated ASYCFILT.DLL, OLEPRO32.DLL, STDOLE2.TLB [to 4526].
* Updated INFEX.EXE to 0.5.
* Removed RUNPOST.BAT.
* Removed GETVER.EXE.
* Removed modified EXPLORER.EXE and SHELL32.DLL from SUPP.CAB.
* Replaced CRLUPD.EXE and ROOTSUPD.EXE with CRLUPD.CAB and ROOTSUPD.CAB.
* Replaced TWEAKUI.* with TWEAKUI.CAB.
* "Windows 2000 Color Scheme" is "Windows 2000 Theme" now, and it installs both the color scheme and desktop icons.
* Cleanup the SPUPDATE.INF code.
* Moved SYSTRAY.EXE and HOTPLUG.DLL from SP2.CAB to SUPP.CAB (added modified SHELL.INF for this).
* Moved ITIRCL.DLL, ITSS.DLL from SUPP.CAB to SP2.CAB.
* Moved "MaxFileCache" setting into the INFEX.INI, now it only installs if you have 512+ MB of RAM.
I think I will release this as 2.5 BETA 1, because I want to work on
better slipstreaming (+removing more files from SUPP.CAB, especially
HTML Help), also I have a great idea for uninstallation method [but
this will increase the size of the package about 5 MB!].
Some notes:
* T2EMBED.DLL is for only IE 5.5+ ?
* What do you think about Paint filters ( http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#PNT ) ?
* What do you think about erpdude8's this suggestion ( http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=67785) ?
* Should "fix of Windows Explorer Freeze" be optional ?
* Any more idea?
Since Gape is not replying for about half a year we should either to decide to continue or to bury this project.
As I mentioned in Future development of 98/SE/Me service packs it would be good to focuse on core functions and consolidate service packs for 98, 98SE, Me and maybe even 95 to have the same structure, and to use new installer with 100% uninstall with recovery of all files and registry entries. It must be 100% safe for everyone.
So - how to continue?
Petr
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I tried to make a sorted list of posts here to be able to find quickly what I'm looking for, so far the first 8 pages of this forum. Please submit your suggestions how to improve it - or improve it yourself :-)
Windows 95
Windows 98
Service pack for Windows 98 Standard (First, Gold)
Windows 98 SE
The complete list of hotfixes & updates for Windows 98se
Windows Media Player for Windows 98se
When a new & latest Service Pack 2.5 ?
Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE
Improving Windows 98 / safe mode
Windows Me
Windows 95 + 98 (Gold)
Windows 95/98 First Edition + WMP 9
Windows 95 + 98 + 98 SE + Me
Enable48BitLBA | Break the 137Gb barrier!
137GB limit - ESDI_506.PDR and other limits
Windows 98 + 98 SE + Me
Future development of 98/SE/Me service packs
U891711 = Unofficial Q891711 [MS05-002] fix
U918547 : unofficial 918547 fix = OBSOLETE
[RELEASE] Windows 9x Power Pack v4.1 RELEASED!
Windows 98 PowerPack v3.0 released [details itt]
W98_Slip: genuine slipstreaming for windows 9x
Working on w98_slip v0.2 (error checking, automatic service pack integ
Deintegrate INFs with from Windows 9x distro tool, First Magical Plugin for W98_Slip has arrived!
Microcode updates - UPDATE.SYS
IE
Unofficial Internet Explorer 6 SP1 Updater
Maximus Decim InternetExplorer 6.0sp1 Component Update 1.1
Data
Maximus Decim Data Access Component Update, New! MDDACU 1.1
Unresolved problems
Incompatibility of the latest MDAC and HHELP
Internet Explorer, Script Error
IE script error on 98se w/ SP 2.1a on .chm help files
06-015 (Q908531) still not up on WU, but...
Windows Me IO.SYS (WINBOOT.SYS) format
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Fixes
98 FE + 98 SE + ME updates + patches + (hot)fixes
Separate fixes and add-ons
Maximum-Decim Native USB Drivers
98 (FE), 98 SP1 + 98 SE SHELL32.DLL fix
Packaging and other tools:
SED, INF, DDF file format description
What suitable installer to choose for the SPs?
MS patch (mspatcha.dll) - how to use?
Code signing, catalog files etc.
International versions and support:
International support in 98/ME
Unofficial SP2.1a italian version
I´m interest in making a brazilian win98servicepack
Unofficial SP2.XX Spanish version
Unofficial Service Pack in Spanish
Spanish Unofficial Win98 SE Service Pack
International versions of Windows needed
Service Packs - All Translations
nUSB
Maximum-Decim Native USB Drivers
Polishing Up Maximus Decim NUSB
USB 2.0
Yes, it is very rough. I'll continue when I will have some time.
Petr
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At least some information in that post is wrong.
The package with 4.10.2225 version is 273017usa8.exe, not 273027usa8.exe
But what is much more important, the CacheWriteDelay registry entry is used by version 4.10.2225 only, not by 4.10.2223, you can just look into the file, this text is contained in 4.10.2225 version only.
It means that it has absolutely no sense to set the registry CacheWriteDelay to any value if 4.10.2225 is not installed.
Petr
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If when you do get this thing up and running could you please
not included third party apps like metapad etc...
only because people will eventually install the apps they want.
Some people might not even use such tools.
I think this pack should be official/unofficial updates only
and tweaks for speed/endurance etc....
NOTHING ELSE
But this is just my opinion
Exactly my opinion, I think that skins/themes should not be part of the uSP too.
uSP should contain bug fixes and remove some restrictions, like 137GB disks or 2GB files.
With Metapad - there may be two points of view. One is that it is just a tool that removes another limitation ~ 40 kB maximum size of edited file, the second is that it is just 3rd party application that should not be here.
Petr
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It might be a hardware problem...
With Virtual PC?
Petr
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Hello,
I have installed many versions many times recently and I got many errors during the OS install:
Windows 98 (Gold) SK
Setting up personalized settings for:
Windows Setup - Direct Cable connection
RUNDLL sposobila veobecncú chybu ochrany pamäte
v module SETUPX.DLL na 000f:00003739
Registre:
EAX=00000490 CS=248f EIP=00003739 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=17c70001 SS=25a7 ESP=00004638 EBP=0000464a
ECX=000023df DS=240f ESI=0000048e FS=0da7
EDX=00020000 ES=23df EDI=0000c748 GS=0000
Bajty na CS:EIP:
ff 5e 08 89 46 fa f6 c4 80 75 75 8a 46 fa 2a e4
Výpis zásobníka
25a74a7a 23df0490 c7484a7a 00020000 465a23df
4a7a4078 3fc025a7 000130e7 46684a7a 248f7762
25a74a7a 4aa8240f 47e64ab6 4a7a2307 24ae25a7
00310000Windows 98 (Gold) EN
Setting up personalized settings for:
Windows Setup - Clipboard Viewer
RUNDLL caused a general protection fault
in module SETUPX.DLL at 000f:00003739
Registre:
EAX=00000490 CS=248f EIP=00003739 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=00000001 SS=2507 ESP=00004638 EBP=0000464a
ECX=000023a7 DS=0d8f ESI=0000048e FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=23a7 EDI=0000c748 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 5e 08 89 46 fa f6 c4 80 75 75 8a 46 fa 2a e4
Stack Dump:
25074a7a 23a70490 c7484a7a 00020000 465a23a7
4a7a4078 3fc02507 000130e7 46684a7a 248f7762
25074a7a 4aa80d8f 47e64ab6 4a7a22c7 30d62507
00310000Windows 98 Gold EN
WebTV for Windows Update
Regsvr32 caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:763a0730
Registers:
EAX=7800265f CS=0167 EIP=763a0730 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=81731ac4 SS=016f ESP=00feff68 EBP=00feff98
etc...
white dialog
GSUPDATE caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0084:763a0730Windows 98 SE EN
no reboot, cannot terminate a process without name, after terminating it it ends in "Windows is shutting down" state. Next reboot is OK.
All install were to Virtual PC this time but I have seen them or real PCs too.
Does anybody had similar problems? How to avoid these RUNDLL errors?
Windows 95 install problems (and maybe also 98, I'm not sure): During one of the reboots the CD-ROM is not available, but Windows Setup needs many networking files from it. Is there any workaround other than copy all files to HDD?
Regards,
Petr
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The original filename is "98DDK.EXE" and it is approximately 25Mb. If you do some Searching on the internet you will definitely find it.
MSDN Version is about 45 MB (contains also symbols) and the file name is WIN98DDK.EXE.
Petr
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Hello,
I think it's time to do some advance in Service Packs field, especailly with SESP. Gape is not replying several months to PMs and e-mails so we should make something ourselves.
Besides of other things that we can discuss later, we should choose some good installer. IEXPRESS + INFEX combination is not very flexible and does no provide all necessary features.
Some of the features I'd like to see are:
- full support for Win95/98/Me
- test of OS version and OS language
- complete backup of all replaced files, registry keys and INI entries
- full restore of the previous state after uninstall
- support for all languages in which Win95/98/Me exist
- ability of conditional installation depending on
-- OS version
-- OS language
-- certain file versions
-- certain registry entries
- good compressing ratio
- easy to learn and use
- free for any use
- maybe also the possibility to create patches, something like MSPs for Windows Installer.
I see two candidates:
but I have not tested them. Maybe somebody know anything better?
Maybe also good patching program would be nice, maybe useing mspatcha.dll, maybe something different, but it should save the space and troubles with distribution of some files.
Any ideas?
Petr
Edit: Additional tools suggested to me:
WiX - free
Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite - rather expensive
InstallShield 12 Express - €399.00
VISE $695 + $200 per language file
Advanced Installer - free limited version, $249 professional
Setup2GO - free or $ 29.00
InstallConstruct - $295.00
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98DDK
in Windows 9x/ME
Posted · Edited by Petr
Both FE and SE, both debug and retail versions.
and
Petr