Shortly after Microsoft ended support for OS's before XP, I stumbled on a website that promised to continue providing updates for Win 98 and maybe Win 95. Does anyone remember what it is? I have to reinstall 98SE. I have the February 2004 MS CD with updates until then but would like to obtain later ones. I'll appreciate any suggestions or other avenues for exploration. Thanks.

Microsoft is the entity that creates the updates and they are no longer doing that. For the time being all updates that were created are still available at the MS update site. I believe they extend past your 2004 date. Look at the links below: http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/... http://support.microsoft.com/gp/hub... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/ar... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/do...

Thanks. Microsoft, of course, stopped supporting OS's prior to XP and 2000 last June. There were no Win98 updates at the MS links you provided, I don't think (I checked them). But, as of September or October, someone up there in cyberspace had best intentions of keeping update packages available at their independent non-MS site. And it seemed that they were even thinking about trying to port later XP updates to 98. I knew I should've bookmarked the site when I stumbled upon it. It's impossible to find using search engines (try typing "98 OR 98SE update" into Google, for starters!).

There ARE updates at those sites. If you go to the regular update site it will scan your system and show you what critical updates are available and not currently installed on your computer. Below is the link to that site. http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.c...

As far as I know you can still get W98SE Updates from the normal Windows Update website. I've just been there and it is still displaying the only one I didn't want to unstall. These are of-course only up to 13 June 2006 which was the date of their last one (despite their claims of support until mid July). With a little skill you can also get the file downloads. Going to "read more", corporate updates, or just Googling for the Q number is one way forward. What, I believe you are referring to is Windows UNOFFICIAL Updates V2.1a which is here: http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen... You have to bear a few points in mind though. Despite the initial enthusiasm of the author these updates have not changed since Nov 5th 2005. Also be aware that you have no control on what is put in and it includes a number of "tweaks". Whether these are good/bad reliable/unreliable is a matter of conjecture. FWIW I've settled for the last MS official Update and am hoping that as far as security is concerned many of the nasties might not actually work on W98SE because they are certain to have been written for XP. DerekW

Aha, that link was just the screenshots. Interesting maybe but this is the one I intended: http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html At your own risk blah blah DerekW

... screenshots do imply some control DerekW