First post, by Warlord
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98se is in a way a cumulation of work done to windows 95 to 98 Second Edition. Think of 98se as 95 Service pack 5.
The core OS didn't change it was improved on and bugs were fixed. By the time 98se released, all of the bugs from 95 and 981st had been worked out. 9x became basically as stable as it was ever going to be.
There a lot of 98se updates, however almost none of them have anything to do with gaming or system stability. Almost all of them are security fixes, and most of those are related to Internet explorer in some way.
They are actually not security fixes in reality, becasue there is no way to secure 98se outside of disconnecting it from the internet. They end up making the OS slower and in some cases more unstable and introduce bugs and regressions.
Some of the updates actually hurt the OS, like the WDM update, as it has shown to effect drivers and games.
So please, unless your system has a specific problem like its not shutting down properly, as there is around 5 different fixes that try to adress this problem. Just leave it alone.
That being said there are some updates I recommend installing.
MSI installer 2.0
NOVOLTRK registry patch to keep 9X from corrupting floppy disks
Direct X 7 and only higher version if the video card needs it. Otherwise newer version than 7a will break some sound cards, video cards and games.
TweakUI
VBrun 1,2,3,4,5
VC++6
nusb2.2e If you use USB
TCP 1.4 if you use tcp
Q240896 Open GL update
Doshere from 95 powertoys
WinG
Ie 5.5sp2 only if you have a program that needs otherwise dont update IE. Avoid IE 6.
Edit.
Rloew patches. I have nothing aginst them, and I recommend them if your system needs them especially large hard drive support, its better than official ones.
That just about covers it unless you have a specific problem in which case a specific update would solve, but not adding 30 updates to fix a problem that one update would fix and then intruduce 7 other problems.
MSI Installer2.0
https://archive.org/details/instmsi
Directx 7a
https://web.archive.org/web/20011005075954/ht … -US/dx7aeng.exe
Dun TCP 1.4
https://web.archive.org/web/20011128162030/ht … US/dun14-SE.exe
NUSB 2.2e
download/file.php?id=169568
NUSB 2.2.1e update
download/file.php?id=168398
VBRUN 1,2,3
download/file.php?id=168737
VBRUN 4
download/file.php?id=169320
VBrun 5
download/file.php?id=169321
VBrun 6 Sp4
http://web.archive.org/web/20230713024044/htt … /VBRun60sp4.exe
VC6 C++ run
https://web.archive.org/web/20230713023103/ht … stSetup_enu.exe
Rloew Patches
https://archive.org/details/rloewelectronics.com
Directx 7 CPL
download/file.php?id=169414
3D Controls
download/file.php?id=169416
Directx 7a Dsound Patch
download/file.php?id=169417