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For my W95osr2 installs I go:

IE4
IE5
Desktop Update
USB supplement
USB update
USB Flash update

This gets USB1.1 operating ok [no luck with USB2 yet] and Windows Explorer works pretty much like W98se at this point. I don't go on line so the IE updates are purely for the navigation and shell enhancements they offer. I trim out some of the bloat manually afterwards, along with a general effort to remove unnecessary W95 programs/apps/gunk. The look and feel works for me - in fact I quite like 95...

On a second thought, is the topic about the UI changes (IE look in Explorer) in Win98 or what? If so I don't care for these, even though I think the back/forward buttons are handy. For my Win98SE I don't install any 3rd party patches other than the USB mass storage driver as I don't try to make it run modern stuff.

I'm not sure either, but the back/forward button is the big 'thrill' as far as I'm concerned, and worth the trouble for me - also I like the way navigation windows can be modified and saved better - though I don't like "View as a web page'.

I agree that for W98SE not much else is needed. But I do install Unofficial SP v2.1a, and SP v3 'IE6 Core only' install option to get USB2 up and running [with nUSB33 as well]. Visual Basic 6, Dx9.0c, and a couple of old Quicktimes round out the package.

I wonder if it'll work if a 98Lite Sleek install (win95 shell) can take the IE4 shell stuff. 😀

I sometimes install IE4 for the taskbar shortcuts - the quicklaunch buttons. I used the word 'sometimes' because I keep tinkering with my classic systems, and I couldn't remember how many times I have re-installed again and again, Windows 95c in those systems.

Whatever the case maybe, I always turn off those 'channels' and 'active desktop'. Actually it's the first thing I do after installing IE4.

Currently my Pentium II has been there for quite sometime now, and have not tried to build anymore Windows 95-friendly systems for now. Haven't installed IE4 in this system yet. Just playing some basic Windows 95 games - MechCommander 1, etc.

Malik wrote:

Whatever the case maybe, I always turn off those 'channels' and 'active desktop'. Actually it's the first thing I do after installing IE4.

Same here..

I just realized I could extract IE4shl95.cab over C:\windows\web\ in Win98 to get the old IE4 folder look.

tincup wrote:

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For my W95osr2 installs I go:

IE4
IE5
Desktop Update
USB supplement
USB update
USB Flash update

This gets USB1.1 operating ok [no luck with USB2 yet] and Windows Explorer works pretty much like W98se at this point. I don't go on line so the IE updates are purely for the navigation and shell enhancements they offer. I trim out some of the bloat manually afterwards, along with a general effort to remove unnecessary W95 programs/apps/gunk. The look and feel works for me - in fact I quite like 95...

But if you're going to install IE5 and everything else, why wouldn't you just install 98se and get the USB2 support?

Jorpho wrote:

...But if you're going to install IE5 and everything else, why wouldn't you just install 98se and get the USB2 support?

... for the games that are happiest under 95, the ones you may run into niggling little problems with under W98; like Hind 3dfx, Apache Longbow 3dfx, Aces of the Deep and a few/bunch of others - not a lot but enough interesting ones to justify the separate install. I was explaining this in another thread - there games in the early/mid 90's that got 3dfx official upgrade patches during the W95 era but that weren't popular enough to have updates continue through the subsequent appearance of W98, and these tend to be more stable in W95.

W95 is also cool.