Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for Windows 95, 98, 98SE &
ME. However, I have a ton of learning CDs for my 3-year-old and they are
Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 only (some of them). So, I need to be able to get
the patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow. Can anyone point me in the
right direction?

Thanks,
Brian
--
Brian Millikan
Computer/Software Engineer
Microsoft Control Applications (Dialog-Based) Specialist / Hardware Driver
Development / User-Level Hardware Device Interfaces

You can still download patches and updates for Win 98/98SE and Win Me from
the Windows Update site
(http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp) or if you wish to
download and burn copies to a CD for later use rather than install use the
Windows Update Catalogue
(http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...en/default.asp) although
the latter must be accessed from a PC running a Win 9x operating system -
later operating systems are now redirected to the v7 Catalogue site that
has no Win 9x content.
--
Mike Maltby



BMillikan wrote:

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for Windows 95, 98,
98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of learning CDs for my 3-year-old
and they are Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 only (some of them). So, I
need to be able to get the patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

=?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
wrote in
:

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for Windows
95, 98, 98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of learning CDs
for my 3-year-old and they are Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
only (some of them). So, I need to be able to get the
patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow. Can anyone point
me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Brian

You don't need any updates or patches for you kid(s) to use some
CD's.

You only need them if you will be connecting to the Internet and
using MS Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.

Don't. It's asking for trouble. Use Opera 7.23 from
www.oldversion.com

Now, don't get all ruffled up, but WHY in the world is a

"Computer/Software Engineer, Microsoft Control Applications
(Dialog-Based) Specialist etc."

asking this basic-as-can-get question?


--
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but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

"thanatoid" wrote in message
...
=?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
wrote in
:

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for Windows
95, 98, 98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of learning CDs
for my 3-year-old and they are Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
only (some of them). So, I need to be able to get the
patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow. Can anyone point
me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Brian

You don't need any updates or patches for you kid(s) to use some
CD's.

You only need them if you will be connecting to the Internet and
using MS Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.

Don't. It's asking for trouble. Use Opera 7.23 from
www.oldversion.com

Now, don't get all ruffled up, but WHY in the world is a

"Computer/Software Engineer, Microsoft Control Applications
(Dialog-Based) Specialist etc."

asking this basic-as-can-get question?




That's quite true...

but if you do want the updates for win98/ME...if the machine has IE6
installed
you can still gte them.

It's simply that MS is no longer writing new updates

"philo" wrote in
:


"thanatoid" wrote in message
...
=?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
wrote in
:

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for
Windows 95, 98, 98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of
learning CDs for my 3-year-old and they are Windows 3.1
or Windows 95 only (some of them). So, I need to be able
to get the patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow. Can
anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Brian

You don't need any updates or patches for you kid(s) to
use some CD's.

You only need them if you will be connecting to the
Internet and using MS Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.

Don't. It's asking for trouble. Use Opera 7.23 from
www.oldversion.com

Now, don't get all ruffled up, but WHY in the world is a

"Computer/Software Engineer, Microsoft Control
Applications (Dialog-Based) Specialist etc."

asking this basic-as-can-get question?


That's quite true...

but if you do want the updates for win98/ME...if the
machine has IE6 installed
you can still gte them.

It's simply that MS is no longer writing new updates

The BEST place to get them with ANY browser - as the web was
intended to work in the first pace - is:

http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html

You can then examine them without going through the pages and
pages of MS explanations and decide if you REALLY need any of
them.


--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

"N. Miller" wrote in
:

On 02 Jan 2008 03:25:10 GMT, thanatoid wrote:

Use Opera 7.23...

Why? Opera 9.25 runs under Windows ME.

It may "run" but it won't run as fast and will crash more on
98SE.



--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

Well, my future plan is to connec that compute to my domain and give it
limited access to the internet. But, there are no such plans right now.
Despite all the bad stuff out there on the i-net, there are some good sites
for preschoolers (especially playhouse Disney's web site).

Why am I asking? Because I'd like a fully patched/updated/upgraded
Win95/Win98/Win98SE/WinMe collections of CDs for the future because I also
have an (almost) 1-year-old that will be using the same software and it is
only for Windows 3.1 or Window 95 (some of them). The "emulation mode" in XP
and Vista have only been successful in some applications. But, not for games
like that. So, I have to revert back to Win98 (at this point).
--
Brian Millikan
Computer/Software Engineer
Microsoft Control Applications (Dialog-Based) Specialist / Hardware Driver
Development / User-Level Hardware Device Interfaces



"thanatoid" wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
wrote in
:

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for Windows
95, 98, 98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of learning CDs
for my 3-year-old and they are Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
only (some of them). So, I need to be able to get the
patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow. Can anyone point
me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Brian

You don't need any updates or patches for you kid(s) to use some
CD's.

You only need them if you will be connecting to the Internet and
using MS Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.

Don't. It's asking for trouble. Use Opera 7.23 from
www.oldversion.com

Now, don't get all ruffled up, but WHY in the world is a

"Computer/Software Engineer, Microsoft Control Applications
(Dialog-Based) Specialist etc."

asking this basic-as-can-get question?


--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

=?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
wrote in
:

Well, my future plan is to connec that compute to my domain
and give it limited access to the internet. But, there are
no such plans right now. Despite all the bad stuff out
there on the i-net, there are some good sites for
preschoolers (especially playhouse Disney's web site).

Why am I asking? Because I'd like a fully
patched/updated/upgraded Win95/Win98/Win98SE/WinMe
collections of CDs for the future because I also have an
(almost) 1-year-old that will be using the same software
and it is only for Windows 3.1 or Window 95 (some of them).
The "emulation mode" in XP and Vista have only been
successful in some applications. But, not for games like
that. So, I have to revert back to Win98 (at this point).

If I were you I'd just go to some garage sales or eBay and get a
$20 486 or PI for him/her, WITHOUT a modem, although it'd
probably be at least 2 years before s/he could figure out what
do with the modem...

I don't let ANYONE touch my computers, let alone a 1-year old
kid.
Cat hair in the keyboard is about all I am willing to put with
:-)

--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

On 02 Jan 2008 03:25:10 GMT, thanatoid
wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
wrote in
:

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for Windows
95, 98, 98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of learning CDs
for my 3-year-old and they are Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
only (some of them). So, I need to be able to get the
patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow. Can anyone point
me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Brian

You don't need any updates or patches for you kid(s) to use some
CD's.

You only need them if you will be connecting to the Internet and
using MS Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.

That's what I thought, but why is it that MS is always releasing
"Security Updates" and Netscape, Firefox, Opera, etc. never do. At
most they release a "new version" every once in a while. Is that
where they include security changes, or do they just have fewer
vulnerabilities than MS products.

Don't. It's asking for trouble. Use Opera 7.23 from
www.oldversion.com

I have firefox 2, but I suppose you think I should try this too,
right?

If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:53:28 -0600, "philo" wrote:


"thanatoid" wrote in message
...
=?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
wrote in
:

I know Microsoft has removed the online support for Windows
95, 98, 98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of learning CDs
for my 3-year-old and they are Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
only (some of them). So, I need to be able to get the
patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow. Can anyone point
me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Brian

You don't need any updates or patches for you kid(s) to use some
CD's.

You only need them if you will be connecting to the Internet and
using MS Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.


That's quite true...

but if you do want the updates for win98/ME...if the machine has IE6
installed
you can still gte them.

It's simply that MS is no longer writing new updates

Yeah, that seems to be a new meaning for the word support, from the
point of view of those who were writing the updates. Now there seem
to be 2 meanings to the word support.



If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)