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I suggested in another thread that if one was going to maintain win98
beyond the new year it would be wise to download all the available
microsoft updates. I cannot do this because of my dialup status, but if
anyone out there has this in mind I'd sure like to talk with him/her -
it is amazing what can be placed on a cd and how cheap it is to snail
mail same, not that I would be inclined to infringe on Microsoft's
software, if you know what I mean...
Best,
POKO
has nobody else ever considered this before?
 
POKO said:
I suggested in another thread that if one was going to maintain win98
beyond the new year it would be wise to download all the available
microsoft updates. I cannot do this because of my dialup status, but if
anyone out there has this in mind I'd sure like to talk with him/her -
it is amazing what can be placed on a cd and how cheap it is to snail
mail same, not that I would be inclined to infringe on Microsoft's
software, if you know what I mean...
Best,
POKO
has nobody else ever considered this before?
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Fred Langa discussed this dilemma a few weeks ago in his newsletter:
http://www.langalist.com/plus/newsletters/2003/2003-09-18plus.asp#7
 
Hi POKO!

POKO said:
I suggested in another thread that if one was going to maintain win98
beyond the new year it would be wise to download all the available
microsoft updates.
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Sounds very reasonable.
I cannot do this because of my dialup status, but if
anyone out there has this in mind I'd sure like to talk with him/her -
it is amazing what can be placed on a cd and how cheap it is to snail
mail same, not that I would be inclined to infringe on Microsoft's
software, if you know what I mean...
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If you tell me where to download that stuff completely (in English and
German (my girlfriend uses Win98SE (German edition)) I surely could place
that stuff on a CDR...

Greetings,

Joachim
 
I suggested in another thread that if one was going to maintain win98
beyond the new year it would be wise to download all the available
microsoft updates. I cannot do this because of my dialup status, but if
anyone out there has this in mind I'd sure like to talk with him/her -
it is amazing what can be placed on a cd and how cheap it is to snail
mail same, not that I would be inclined to infringe on Microsoft's
software, if you know what I mean...
Best,
POKO
has nobody else ever considered this before?
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A very good list of updates can be found here. Win 98 through to Win XP.

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/updates/

OS Updates: Patches and then some...

Last Updated on October 4, 2003 by Thomas McGuire

"Listed beneath are recommended updates that you should install if you
have Windows XP, 2000, Millennium Edition or 98 Second Edition. Where
possible I've linked to where the actual update can be downloaded & saved
from should you need to apply it at a later date, e.g. due to a re-
install. This listing also covers some important OS updates which not
even Windows Update's features. Updated regularly this site will keep
your Operating System up-to-date with the latest security patches &
more."

Regards

Wayne D
 
POKO said:
I suggested in another thread that if one was going to maintain win98
beyond the new year it would be wise to download all the available
microsoft updates. I cannot do this because of my dialup status, but if
anyone out there has this in mind I'd sure like to talk with him/her -
it is amazing what can be placed on a cd and how cheap it is to snail
mail same, not that I would be inclined to infringe on Microsoft's
software, if you know what I mean...
Best,
POKO
has nobody else ever considered this before?
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I just did it last night on dialup. I skipped downloading the stuff that
said it was for IE 5.5 and I wound up downloading approx 30 megs of updates
for 98SE and it only took about 2 hours of downloading time. But man, do
they ever have them spread out in a ton of subdirectories, all under one
directory called wu.
 
I suggested in another thread that if one was going to maintain win98
beyond the new year it would be wise to download all the available
microsoft updates. I cannot do this because of my dialup status, but if
anyone out there has this in mind I'd sure like to talk with him/her -
it is amazing what can be placed on a cd and how cheap it is to snail
mail same, not that I would be inclined to infringe on Microsoft's
software, if you know what I mean...
Best,
POKO
has nobody else ever considered this before?
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Where are the files? I want to download the entire file, not just an
installer.
 
Joachim Ziebs wrote in
If you tell me where to download that stuff completely (in English and
German (my girlfriend uses Win98SE (German edition)) I surely could place
that stuff on a CDR...
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<http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp?corporate=true>
Select "Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems" on the
first page, select your OS and Language on the next, then hit search.
Browse results and click ADD button to add individual updates to
*download basket*. When done adding goto download basket, input a
local directory to save to (or use Browse button to find one)
and click "Download Now".

If you only want to download what is required for your current Windows
installation, use the regular windows update first, do not
install/download from there, but copy the result list and go the above
URL - and select updates according to the list you just copied.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
A very good list of updates can be found here. Win 98 through to Win XP.

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/updates/

OS Updates: Patches and then some...

Last Updated on October 4, 2003 by Thomas McGuire

"Listed beneath are recommended updates that you should install if you
have Windows XP, 2000, Millennium Edition or 98 Second Edition. Where
possible I've linked to where the actual update can be downloaded & saved
from should you need to apply it at a later date, e.g. due to a re-
install. This listing also covers some important OS updates which not
even Windows Update's features. Updated regularly this site will keep
your Operating System up-to-date with the latest security patches &
more."

Regards

Wayne D
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Found this post concerning the same issue early in the day 10/04/03.
Very easy to do. Nice tip Gordon :-)

Subject: Windows 98 Updates
From: Gordon Darling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware

Whilst Windows 98 is still the most widely installed OS in the world it
ain't making any money for Microsoft - they want you to move to XP. As
many will be aware support for Win98 will be withdrawn at the end of this
year.

It is possible to set up "Windows Update" to allow you to download ALL of
the updates individually. You can then copy them all to another
partition/hard disk or burn to a CDR. It's easy enough on broadband but
still possible on dial up if you download bits at a time.

Couple of caveats.
You must be running a Microsoft operating system (I.e. you can't do it on
Solaris or BSD, etc) but you can d/l updates for an OS other than the one
you are running. (You can d/l Win98SE updates from a Win2K or WinXP box).

The procedure is as follows.

a) Go to the Windows update site.
b) Choose personalize Windows update in the left frame.
c) Put a check mark in "Display the link to Windows Update Catalog".
d) There's a new link to Windows Update Catalog under See Also.
e) Click on the link.
f) Make your selection of operating system.
g) Make your selection updates.
h) Download as appropriate.

Hope this helps those of you still using Win98

Regards
Gordon
 
I think he means he doesn't want to do the dirty work himself due to the
time involved.
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looking at http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/updates/ I see a hell of a
list downloads - can you imagine the time this would take on dialup?
Obviously those of you on cable cannot imagine watching the download
applet for that length of time. Consider yourself lucky,
POKO

Windows 98 Second Edition

Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement - Added 23/10/2001.

DCOM 1.3 - Added 8/8/2001.

"Malformed Telnet Argument" vulnerability - Added 23/10/2001.

"File Access URL" vulnerability - Updated 29/8/2001.

"Spoofed Route Pointer" & "Fragmented IGMP Packet" vulnerability - Added
23/10/2001.

Windows 98 Large IDE Update - Added 23/10/2001.

Windows 98 Second Edition 1394 Storage Supplement - Updated 29/8/2001.

"Malformed RTF Control Word" vulnerability - Updated 29/8/2001.

"DOS Device in Path Name" vulnerability - Added 23/10/2001.

"IP Fragment Reassembly" vulnerability - Updated 29/8/2001.

Windows 98 Second Edition Mapped Drives Shutdown Update - Updated
27/2/2002.

"Share Level Password" vulnerability - Added 23/10/2001.

"Malformed IPX NMPI Packet" vulnerability - Added 23/10/2001.

"WebTV for Windows Denial of Service" vulnerability - Only required if
Web TV for Windows is installed - Added 23/10/2001.

IDE Hard Drive Cache Package - Updated 26/3/2003.

"Incomplete TCP/IP Packet" vulnerability - Workaround only - Updated
27/2/2003.

Visual Basic 6 SP5 Runtime files - Updated 3/3/2001.

Erroneous VeriSign-Issued Digital Certificates Pose Spoofing Hazard -
Updated 29/8/2001.

WebDAV Service Provider Can Allow Scripts to Levy Requests as User -
Added 19/4/2001.

Dial-Up Networking 1.4 - Added 19/5/2001.

“HyperTerminal Buffer Overflow” vulnerability - Only need if
HyperTerminal is installed - Updated 29/8/2001.

Root Certificates Update - Updated 1/9/2001.

Windows Installer 2.0 - Updated 29/9/2001.

Windows Media Player .ASF Processor contains Unchecked Buffer - Updated
9/3/2002.

Unchecked Buffer in Universal Plug & Play can lead to System Compromise
- Added 21/12/2001.

XMLHTTP Control can allow access to Local Files - Added 22/2/2002.

Incorrect VBScript Handling in IE can allow Web Pages to read Local
Files - Added 22/2/2002.

Fatal Exception 0E with Multiple MS-DOS Device Names in Path - Added
30/3/2002.

Unchecked Buffer in Windows Shell could lead to code execution - Updated
18/4/2002.

Non-PCM wave formats update - Added 21/4/2002.

Unchecked Buffer in SNMP Service could enable Arbitrary code to be run -
Added 26/4/2002.

Unsafe Functions in Office Web Components - Added 21/8/2002.

Flaw in Certificate Enrollment Control could allow deletion of Digital
Certificates - Added 29/8/2002.

Certificate Validation Flaw could enable Identity Spoofing - Patch
updated 21/11/2002.

Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 - Added 9/9/2002.

Flaw in Microsoft VM JDBC Classes could allow code execution - Added
19/9/2002.

Unchecked Buffer in Windows Help Facility could enable code execution -
Added 3/10/2002.

HTML Help Update to Limit Functionality When Invoked with
Window.showHelp( ) Method - Added 6/2/2003.

Cannot Access MSN E-mail or Authenticate with a Web Site - Added
13/2/2003.

Windows Media Player 9 Series - Added 9/3/2003.

Flaw in Windows Script Engine May Allow code to Run - Added 19/3/2003.

Hardware-Created ASF Files Stop Playing in Media Player 9 Series - Added
27/3/2003.

Flaw in Microsoft VM could enable system compromise - Updated 9/4/2003.

Cumulative Update for Outlook Express - Updated 23/4/2003.

Windows Media Player 9 Series Video may freeze in a Multiple Monitor
scenario - Added 7/6/2003.

Flaw In Windows Media Player May Allow Media Library Access - Added
28/06/2003.

Jet 4.0 Service Pack 7 - Added 28/06/2003.

Buffer Overrun in the HTML Converter Could Allow Code Execution - Added
10/7/2003.

Windows Media Player 9 Series Downloads Radio Preset Information - Added
11/7/2003.

Error Message: "Internet Explorer Cannot Download a File" - Added
15/7/2003.

DirectX 9.0b - Updated 26/7/2003.

Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 - Added 8/8/2003.

Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 - Updated
17/8/2003.

Flaw in Visual Basic for Applications Could Allow Arbitrary Code
Execution - Added 03/09/2003.

FIX: Slight delay when WMP 9 Series switches files streamed from a
Windows Media Services 9 Series Server - Added 17/09/2003.

Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer - Updated 4/10/2003.

Windows Media Player Script Command Patch - Added 4/10/2003.
 
looking at http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/updates/ I see a hell of a
list downloads - can you imagine the time this would take on dialup?
Obviously those of you on cable cannot imagine watching the download
applet for that length of time. Consider yourself lucky,
POKO
Click to expand...

I would be willing to bet that dialup users would be happy to pay to
have a cd snailmailed to them. Ahem......
 
POKO said:
looking at http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/updates/ I see a hell of a
list downloads - can you imagine the time this would take on dialup?
Obviously those of you on cable cannot imagine watching the download
applet for that length of time. Consider yourself lucky,
POKO
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<long list snipped>

Quite a number of items on that list aren't exclusively Windows 98-specific
and will therefore be available after MS stops supporting W98. I think it's
important for us to just get all the W98 patches into our archives at this
point.

Ian.
 
Wayne D - 06.10.2003 06:08 :

I visited this URL and want to say many thanks for this great work. But,
I tested to find the following two patches:

(1) XP-KB823980-x86-DEU (against the Blaster worm)
(2) XP-Q811630_Wxp_SP2_x86-DEU (bug printing CHM-files with subthemes)

and can't find these patches :-(

So, is this list perhaps not very complete or did I only a bad search?
 
I would be willing to bet that dialup users would be happy to pay to
have a cd snailmailed to them. Ahem......
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I sense a business opportunity here, does someone want to make an
offer? I plan to have a CD writer *soon* but I am not sure what the
learning curve is to not make coasters, so I think I'd like to be in
the clear by getting a good CD from an *experienced* person.
 
POKO said:
I would be willing to bet that dialup users would be happy to pay to
have a cd snailmailed to them. Ahem......
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Since we're straying into dark territory here ;-), it might be worth
checking to see if your ISP offers such a service. I think mine does, or
did at one time, and if you supply the URLs, they'll keep burning till
the CD is full and charge AUS$13 per CD, including postage. Just an *OT*
thought.
 
Hi Bjorn!

Bjorn Simonsen said:
<http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp?corporate=true>
Select "Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems" on the
first page, select your OS and Language on the next, then hit search.
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Nothing to find there as this site seems to check browsers or OSes:
"Thank you for your interest in Windows Update
Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the
most out of your computer.
You must be running a Microsoft Windows operating system in order to use
Windows Update."

Greetings,

Joachim
 
Joachim Ziebs wrote in
Nothing to find there as this site seems to check browsers or OSes:
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Thats right, the site uses the Windowsupdate engine - you need Windows
with IE to use it (I get the same respons if I try Opera for Windows).

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
I sense a business opportunity here, does someone want to make an
offer? I plan to have a CD writer *soon* but I am not sure what the
learning curve is to not make coasters, so I think I'd like to be in
the clear by getting a good CD from an *experienced* person.
Click to expand...
and my order can be completed right after Therese !
 
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