Unofficial Windows 98 SE Service Pack


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Hi all,

I am currently working on a service pack for Windows 98 SE. It is a self extracting file and its setup is based on an .inf file like Microsoft's patches.

It contains only updates from Windows Update. But it contains two additional files currently:

1- Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime DLL "msvbvm60.dll".

2- 256 color patched "explorer.exe".

A list of updates of my service pack: 236926, 239887, 241084, 243199, 243450, 245065, 245682, 245729, 246387 , 247853, 249973, 253697, 253711, 257360, 258010, 258191, 259253, 259728, 260067, 263044, 263891, 269601, 271811, 273017, 273727, 274113, 274370, 274548, 276602, 278033, 280448, 288550, 293197, 308349, 313829, 323172, 329115, 823559.

Total: 38 updates + 2 additional files.

I can add some useful files, and some general registry tweaks.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Yeah.. If that is fixed, I might roll back to it ;)

From what I remember of 98SE that memory management ain't so bad. OK, it can't compare to 2000 or XP, but than again... those last OS's require FAR more system specs compared to 98.

From what I remember of 98SE that memory management ain't so bad. OK, it can't compare to 2000 or XP, but than again... those last OS's require FAR more system specs compared to 98.

Anything above 256MB seems to be handled poorly. I have 1024MB DDR that I tried to run in 98... just didn't work out well -- used it on my 256MB machine and it ran like a dream... Maybe it's just hit and miss?

Actually there is problem with systems that have more than 512 MB of RAM. Link

I agree that Windows 98's memory management is bad, but two tweaks can help a bit.

1- "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" setting. (This will be included in my update.)

2- MaxFileCache. (To solve 512 mb ram problem.)

  • 2 weeks later...

Hi all,

Unofficial Windows 98 SE Service Pack 1 English Public Beta released.

Download

Features:

- 52 hot fix.

- 256-color tray.

- Better Defrag.

- Better Notepad.

- Optimized swap file usage.

- Better WDM/USB support.

- Windows Scripting Host 5.6.

- Visual Basic 6.0 SP5 runtime library.

- Windows 2000 color scheme.

I recommend that you should install IE, DirectX and MediaPlayer before this pack.

Your feedback are welcome. :)

Edited by Gape

When he said "hating microsoft", I think he ment that he hates them because they wish to make him pay for Win98SE. thenewbrgnewman, there are ways of getting what you rightfully should have for free :whistle:

Ashman: Wrong thread to ask that question. Go to another section of this forum please.

When he said "hating microsoft", I think he ment that he hates them because they wish to make him pay for Win98SE. thenewbrgnewman, there are ways of getting what you rightfully should have for free :whistle:

Ashman: Wrong thread to ask that question. Go to another section of this forum please.

thank you! Someone gets what I said! :p

Uhhh... man you do realize that guy Gape made this 'service pack' and not Microsoft right?

I know but from the rumors I have been hearing it sounds like it is going to be for only Windows 98 SE, not the regular one. Gonna make a few people mad :angry:

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