Dave-H

You should only need to install the IE8 Cumulative Update to avoid this, but I thought that problem was supposed to be fixed now anyway? I guess we'll find out on the 11th.

And now it's back to as it was before! So the clearing of the caches is obviously not the answer! Somewhere there is an expired certificate that is presumably causing this, but I don't seem to have been able to identify it to remove it and/or update it. It can't be an intrinsic problem with Windows XP, or everyone would be reporting it! I think what I'm going to have to do is to completely reset the certificates system on my machine and delete them all and start from scratch again. Has anyone any input on the safest way of doing this? Thanks, Dave.

I agree, there will I'm sure be a dedicated thread or two or more about finally abandoning XP after next April. I personally have no intention of doing so!

So it does! A shame that the same trick doesn't work for PowerPoint.

That is good to know that the online update system is finally fixed after all this time, but having links to the updates posted here is still extremely useful!

I third that!

Well considering that we've actually been "living on borrowed time" for over four years now, we haven't done too badly!

Same for me, the .NET 2.0 update, but not the 4.0 one. I'll try installing it manually. I no longer have the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack installed as I updated my Windows XP Office installation to Office 2010, and there were five updates for that.

No Den, Windows 98 doesn't show anything about updates in add/remove programs. In the old days you would presumably rely on your Windows Update history to tell you what patches had been installed, but now when you have to install them manually there seems to be no record. There is a list of patches in the registry installer section, but it's impossible to interpret as there are multiple entries with the patch numbers duplicated in many of them.

I've now got the 2007 Compatibility Pack installed, and Word can read docx files, which is all I needed. I still don't see how I can tell what updates have been installed on Office XP, apart from SP3. How can I check this? Also, although obviously not a deal breaker, the Office Assistant won't work. Is it actually compatible with Windows 98?

Just to add my experience, I had given up on being able to use any of the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack on my Windows 98SE Office XP installation, until I read this thread, and I thought I'd give it a try. I have the installation file for the base install, so I extracted the .msi installer file from it with Universal Extractor. To my amazement, without any Orca modification, it ran and installed! Word now opens docx files fine for reading, which is all I really wanted it for. I'm not interested in being able to save. PowerPoint and Excel still don't open the newer formats, just throwing error messages, but Word was the important one for me, and I'm really pleased that it works! I do have the installation file for SP3 of the Pack, but I guess that installing that is a no-no. When I run it it says it needs MS Installer version 3, and Universal Extractor doesn't seem to produce anything meaningful from it.

I did actually try that, but nothing happened but a whole string of error messages, so I guess the commands in the file are invalid on Windows 98.

Good to hear!

Well I now have a nice clean new set of six crypt32 entries in my Application Log this morning, with no errors. Of course this happened before too, but it didn't last and the errors were soon back. Fingers crossed for this time!

Facebook now defaults to Flash if it detects that you're using Windows XP. If you want to use HTML5 you will need to change the browser user agent string for Facebook.com. An add-on like "Custom UserAgent String" will do that for you. I use that and set the string to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0". You can of course change the string for all web sites, which I did for quite a while, but I subsequently found that there was a site (britishairways.com) which wouldn't let me log in with that string set, so beware problems like that. HTH.

Well the "fix" didn't work this time! Back to the same problem as before. I will try the batch file to see if it produces a better result.

Looks like I spoke too soon, the crypt32 ID 11 error events have come back again! I've done the fix again.

Thanks as always Den! I did have a look at those threads before, but people there seemed to think there was no guaranteed workaround to get the Compatibility Pack to work properly on 98, so I didn't really pursue it. I don't really want to get into things like installing 98se2Me on the system. I thought I'd just find a 98-compatible separate reader for the docx files I have, as I'll never need to edit them on 98 anyway, but I'm not having much luck finding even that. I've tried a couple which say they work on Windows 98 but actually they don't! I will try the Office XP update files using the extracted installers, it may indeed just be the packagers that fail in 98. Cheers, Dave.

I've just updated my old Office XP on Windows XP to Office 2013, and decided to install my Office XP on the Windows 98SE side of my machine instead, which I'd never bothered to do before. It installed fine, although I was disappointed to find that there's no way of handling docx files with it. I had the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack installed on Windows XP, but of course it doesn't work with Windows 98, and I gather that there is no way around that. I now want to update my new Office XP Windows 98 installation as far as I can, being that there's no update mechanism from Microsoft for it any more of course. I've installed Service Pack 3 with no problem, and the KB947866 patch. I then found this thread, and I've downloaded the updates ZIP package. Am I right in assuming that you can't uses the supplied .cmd files to automatically install the patches on Windows 98? I gather that .cmd files only work on NT systems, and just changing them to BAT files doesn't work! I started installing them all one by one manually, and the .msp files seemed to all work, but most of the .exe files won't, they open but then crash. I have KernelEx installed, but none of its modes make any difference. Are most of these updates not compatible with Windows 98? Also, is there any way in Office XP to see what updates I have got installed? Apart for "SP3" I can't see any record of the installed updates. Any advice gratefully received. Cheers, Dave.

I did my netbook a while ago, originally just manually deleting all the files in the CryptnetUrlCache folders. I did then decide just to try the certutil command to see what else it might do. I didn't want to install the Admin Pack on that machine, so I just copied the certutil.exe and certadm.dll files from the main machine to \system32 on the netbook. When I ran the "certutil -urlcache * delete" command, I was surprised to find it appeared to do a lot more, deleting a lot of entries. They went through pretty fast but they looked like URLs, rather than the files in the CryptnetUrlCache folders, which appear to just have numbers as their names. All seems to be still working anyway.

I've had this problem a lot with Zippyshare, junk advertising pages appearing when you click the download link. If you just go back and try again, eventually you will get the correct page, although it can take a few tries.

The extra options from the Admin Pack are under Administrative Tools. 🙂

Don't worry, I know you weren't being serious! As I said, the only reason I overlooked your message was because it was on a new page, and I wasn't aware of that until I'd replied to a previous post and my reply appeared underneath it!

I'm not sure whether to be insulted by that or not! @glnz I have already fixed my main machine, I may just use @heinoganda's method when I get to my netbook.

@Thomas S. Thanks Thomas, I was about the give the link, but you saved me the trouble! All seems well, I can't imagine that installing the Server 2003 Admin Pack would cause any detrimental effects, so I'll leave it installed. If it gives you extra tools to use on XP, that's only a good thing as far as I'm concerned. I'll now run the same fix on my netbook, which was also showing the error messages. @glnz You will find when you follow the instructions in the KB article that some of the folders are not where it says they are, because it is referring to later versions of Windows. The ones in \System32\Config\SystemProfile\Application Data\Microsoft are where they say, but not the first two. Easiest is to do a system search for "CryptnetUrlCache" and that will point you to them. EDIT: Oops, hadn't seen @heinoganda's post as it was on a new page! Looks like just deleting the files is enough without running certutil at all! If that is the case you don't even need to install the Admin Pack.......