I've finally managed to find time to actually put together (again) my main retro gaming pc which has enough juice to run Windows 98 Second Edition smoothly and a very nice Sound Blaster AWE64.

While it does work out of the box and it is properly detected by DOS games due to the driver being included in Windows 98 itself, it just works. I may be picky here and probably should be psyched that something in my house actually works for once but because I'm me, I want a control panel with that.

Back in the day I had DOS installed on this machine and then, I installed the drivers using this CD right here:

http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=9

I remember that I got a mixer panel with some cool options such as 3D audio. While I don't care much for the additional options, I do like having the option of having those options.

I would rather not use that CD though. It appears to have drivers for Windows 95 rather than 98 (check the folders inside) and while the driver itself would still probably work, I'd rather not overwrite the one that came with Win98 since it works so nicely and is probably more up-to-date.

So, my question is: is it possible to install whatever control panels and extra features I'd get if I installed the driver... without installing the driver?