Bye, bye V4 WinUP site?

It seems while our backs were turned, the famous WinUP site for 98
displays problems such that it no longer works right. It's quickly
trying to load from two sites but does neither finally. Nor does it
do anything else and so this is how it really ends?

Catalog site too. Both gone. Same problem.

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...en/default.asp

"Lee" wrote in message
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It seems while our backs were turned, the famous WinUP site for 98
displays problems such that it no longer works right. It's quickly
trying to load from two sites but does neither finally. Nor does it
do anything else and so this is how it really ends?

Catalog site too. Both gone. Same problem.

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...en/default.asp

is now v6
http://www.update.microsoft.com/micr....aspx?ln=en-us

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Lee wrote:

It seems while our backs were turned, the famous WinUP site
for 98 displays problems such that it no longer works right.
It's quickly trying to load from two sites but does neither
finally. Nor does it do anything else and so this is how it
really ends?

I thought that the v4 site directed you to the v6 site for the past few
years (didn't it?).

This non-functionality seemed to have started no later than late August
and possibly the beginning of August.

You can tidy things up by setting the "NoWindowsUpdate" registry setting
to "0":

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Explorer

This will remove the Windows Update entry from Start Menu - Settings
and from the IE Tools menu.

Catalog site too. Both gone. Same problem.

Software updates can be downloaded from he

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...q=Windows%2098

Hot-fool wrote:

is now v6

http://www.update.microsoft.com/micr....aspx?ln=en-us

If you tried that you fool, you'd see that it loops between 2 URL's.

Plenty of sources available on the net to download all win-98 updates
for a fresh install.

If you have a working machine that has already been to the windowsupdate
site in the past, then you're not going to be affected by this.

On 09/17/2011 08:30 AM, 98 Guy wrote:
Lee wrote:

It seems while our backs were turned, the famous WinUP site
for 98 displays problems such that it no longer works right.
It's quickly trying to load from two sites but does neither
finally. Nor does it do anything else and so this is how it
really ends?

I thought that the v4 site directed you to the v6 site for the past few
years (didn't it?).




I recently worked on a Win98 machine and there was no automatic
re-direct...but with IE6 one can go to the new update site and still get
the existing Win98 updates

This non-functionality seemed to have started no later than late August
and possibly the beginning of August.

You can tidy things up by setting the "NoWindowsUpdate" registry setting
to "0":

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Explorer

This will remove the Windows Update entry from Start Menu - Settings
and from the IE Tools menu.

Catalog site too. Both gone. Same problem.

Software updates can be downloaded from he

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...q=Windows%2098

Hot-fool wrote:

is now v6

http://www.update.microsoft.com/micr....aspx?ln=en-us

If you tried that you fool, you'd see that it loops between 2 URL's.

Plenty of sources available on the net to download all win-98 updates
for a fresh install.

If you have a working machine that has already been to the windowsupdate
site in the past, then you're not going to be affected by this.

Lee wrote in

oups.com:

It seems while our backs were turned, the famous WinUP site
for 98 displays problems such that it no longer works
right. It's quickly trying to load from two sites but does
neither finally. Nor does it do anything else and so this
is how it really ends?

Catalog site too. Both gone. Same problem.

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...en/default.asp

Who the **** cares?

http://www.mdgx.com/spx

DUH.

philo wrote:

I recently worked on a Win98 machine and there was no automatic
re-direct...but with IE6 one can go to the new update site and
still get the existing Win98 updates

Why don't you try it now and come back and tell us how it worked.

(the rest of the stuff you quoted for no reason - deleted)

On 09/17/2011 05:40 PM, 98 Guy wrote:
philo wrote:

I recently worked on a Win98 machine and there was no automatic
re-direct...but with IE6 one can go to the new update site and
still get the existing Win98 updates

Why don't you try it now and come back and tell us how it worked.

(the rest of the stuff you quoted for no reason - deleted)


nope

philo wrote:

Why don't you try it now and come back and tell us how it worked.

nope

So now you also know it doesn't work.

On 09/17/2011 10:40 PM, 98 Guy wrote:
philo wrote:

Why don't you try it now and come back and tell us how it worked.

nope

So now you also know it doesn't work.


No

the computer I was working on has gone back to it's owner and is not
here any more

philo wrote:

So now you also know it doesn't work.

No

the computer I was working on has gone back to it's owner and is
not here any more

Why do you need someone else's computer to run windows 98?

You must have a computer with win-98, otherwise what would be your
interest in this newsgroup?