It's known that M$ shipped system updates with its browser, so that you were forced to become a user of it. I would like to know what updates were shipped with it that were not parts of it.

For example, IE3 shipped with CryptoAPI. IE4 came with a SHELL32.DLL that fixed something according to MDGx' site, but since it also came with the craptacular Active Desktop shell, I'm worried that it will have side-effects.

At the moment it seems to me that it's mainly cryptography updates being shipped with IE, which I need because that seems to be the reason MSN Messenger 5.0 doesn't sign in. Note: I fooled the application into thinking IE is installed by registering IE 9.99 with PROtab.

Is there no one that has knowledge of this? I would imagine at least MDGx would know something.

Anyone? Please?

I'm not sure what do you mean.

IE 6 SP1 contains the following system updates:

AXA.CAB - DirectAnimation (98)

AXA3.CAB - DirectAnimation (98)

CRLUPD.CAB - Windows CRL Update (98, Me)

HHUPD.CAB - Internet Explorer Help Engine (98)

ICWCON.CAB - Internet Connection Wizard (98)

IEDOM.CAB - Microsoft Windows High Encryption (128-bit) Pack (98)

MPLAYER2.CAB - Windows Media Player (98)

OAINST.CAB - OLE Automation (98)

SCR56EN.CAB - Microsoft Windows Scripting Support (98, Me)

TS95.CAB - Task Scheduler (98)

USP10.CAB - Uniscribe (98, Me)

Language Auto-Selection

Arabic Text Support

Hebrew Text Support

Japanese Text Display Support

Korean Text Display Support

Pan-European Text Display Support

Thai Text Support

Vietnamese Text Support

Chinese (Simplified) Text Display Support

Chinese (Traditional) Text Display Support

Japanese Text Input Support

Korean Text Input Support

Chinese (Simplified) Text Input Support

Chinese (Traditional) Text Input Support

For Windows 95, there are the following IE5.5SP2 cabinets available:

AXA.CAB DirectAnimation

AXA2.CAB DirectAnimation Java Classes

AXA3.CAB DirectAnimation

DCOM95.EXE DCOM for Windows 95

DXDDEX.CAB DirectDrawEx

DXMINI.CAB DirectX Layer

HHUPD.CAB Internet Explorer Help Engine

ICWCON.CAB Internet Connection Wizard

IE4MFC40.CAB Foundation Class Libraries

IE4SHL95.CAB Windows Desktop Update

IEDOM.CAB Microsoft Windows High Encryption (128-bit) Pack

MDAC_IE5.CAB MDAC

MPCDCS.CAB Windows Media Player Codecs

MPLAYER2.CAB Windows Media Player

MSN_AUTH.CAB MSN Site Access

NM30.CAB NetMeeting

OAINST.EXE OLE Automation

TS95.CAB Task Scheduler

USP10.CAB Uniscribe

VMX86_01.CAB Microsoft virtual machine

VMX86_02.CAB Microsoft virtual machine

WEBFLDRS.CAB Web Folders

Is this the information you are looking for?

Petr

Yes, most of it, thank you very much. What's missing is what's inside the IE_x.CAB files.