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First post, by cyclone3d

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After using the newest unofficial service pack for Windows 98SE and encountering funky stuff that should not be happening, such as file browser issues and other weird things, I have decided to use something else.

I think I used to use this pack back in the day:
http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html

That should get me everything that was official from MS as well as a few other added things but nothing like what the abomination that this is:
http://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/

I looked at the packs on Majorgeeks, but they look like they possibly have a bunch of unwanted stuff and are not very specific on what is included.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/windows … xpme_vista.html

What is the consensus on the Auto-Patcher for Windows 98SE?
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhanc … dows-98SE.shtml

Here is a list of all the official updates:
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/84886-the-com … r-windows-98se/

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Here is a page that has a bunch of different things including what looks like a pack that only has the official updates.
http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm

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Reply 1 of 4, by Jorpho

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cyclone3d wrote:

What is the consensus on the Auto-Patcher for Windows 98SE?
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhanc … dows-98SE.shtml

It contains mostly just the official updates.

I found the offline installer the other day(along with a lot of other things) at http://www.tmeeco.eu/9X4EVER/GOODIES/ .

Reply 2 of 4, by dottoss

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cyclone3d wrote:

encountering funky stuff that should not be happening, such as file browser issues and other weird things

I usually go with vanilla nowdays and just skip the unofficial SPs, there is no real need to apply patches to win9x anymore and as you I found they sometimes makes stuff "funky". I can recommend you go through http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm#98SE and download some of those patches for stability, not all of them, but the stuff you think you will need.

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Reply 4 of 4, by Jorpho

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Probably the most important thing is that if you install IE6SP1 (which still seems like a pretty good idea, I think), you will want the shell fix that uses two files from IE5.5.

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