Windows 98 Upgrade Pack Carinthian LH Edition


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HALLOWEEN (31st October 2008) : WUPG98 NEW VERSION AVAILABLE NOW !!!

The currently released version of Halloween 2008 is now named "WUPG98 Carinthian LH Edition"

The Windows 98 Upgrade Pack aka WUPG98, W98UPG.. etc., now offers more than a decade of updates!

Addons:

*Taskbar Shuffle v. 2.5 (offers moving and ordering of Windows in the Taskbar, what not even Vista can)

*Windows Media Player 11 SKIN

*FAST-USB-Removement

Special Extra:

137Gb HDD (manual activation in the "Config" Folder)

KernelEx v. 0.36 (see "KernelEx036" Folder, improves Compatibility so you can use FireFox 3, Macromedia Flash 8 Professional or play DOOM 3)

Why use the WUPG98 instead of an newer OS?

1 decade old OS , 1 brand NEW Upgrade Pack, BUT AT LEAST 1 Feature more than VISTA!

- WUPG98!- the answer to M$'s , Astala "Vista"

What the Upgrade contains:

Windows 2000 Sheme and Win ME Desktop Icons.

A bether version of the Defrag program and Windows 2000/ME startsounds.

Audio CDs can be viewed as Wav-Files the Explorer.

HTML Files and Pictures (gif,jpeg) that can be opened with Internet Explorer are opened in a new Internet Explorer window now,

instead of been opened in one of the Internet windows which are already opened.

Internet Explorer 6 Bug Fix (against hanging and long delay problems on deleting or moving of many files)

Fast removing of USB mass storage devices(read in "C:\wupg\config" folder)

Bether Regedit and Notepad.

Solves "Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed (512 MB Patch)

Solves Error "There Are No Spare Stack Pages"

Multi-coloumn und faster opening Startmenu,no interruption while defraging through Screensavers anymore,

256 Color Systray Icons ,Recyclebin can be renamed,fixes some Bugs,

USB-Mass Storage Device Drivers, ,speeds up the floppy drive,

more safety through emptying the Recent Docs list in the start menu after shutdown, the last logged on user is'nt shown at the logon,

shows the full name and it's extension of files,no AUTOPLAY of Data CDs

and Audio-CDs, automatic unload of DLLs,speeding up of Zip-Drives ,

Actice Desktop can be disabled,

adds the "open in Dos window" command in the context menu of folders,command Uninstall in context of Inf files,

and also a Reg file to disable the "Cancel" button at logon and more.

Microsoft Updates:

wucsp Windows? 98 Customer Service Pack 1 (only Windows 98 Standard)

236926 Windows 95/98 TCP/IP May Retransmit Packets Prematurely

243199 NDIS Intermediate Drivers Errors NDIS.VXD build 4.10.2224

263044 Fdisk doesn't recognise Harddisks larger than 64 GB correct.

273017 Windows IDE Hard Drive Cache Package

273727 Malformed IPX NMPI Packet NWLINK.VXD VSERVER.VXD Security Update

811630 Security Update for Internet Explorer

823559 Security Update for Microsoft? Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition

814078 JSript 5.6 Secutity Patch

243450 ScanDisk-Flaw on IDE-Harddisks larger than 32 GB

TelnetUp Telnet Update

4756 Shutdown Supplement

329048 Unchecked Buffer in File Decompression Functions May Allow Attacker to Run Code

323255 Unchecked Buffer in Windows Help Facility May Allow Attacker to Run Code

323172 Flaw in Certificate Enrollment Control May Cause Digital Certificates to Be Deleted

314147 An Unchecked Buffer in the SNMP Service May Allow Code to Run

274548 Patch for "HyperTerminal Buffer Overflow" Vulnerability

260067 Windows 98 Second Edition Mapped Drives Shutdown Update

259728 Windows Hangs with Fragmented IP Datagrams

256015 Fatal Exception 0E with Multiple MS-DOS Device Names in Path

249973 Default RTF File Viewer Interrupts Normal Program Processing

245729 Windows 98 File Access URL Updatet

311561 MS-DOS Does Not Properly Process Hard Disk Hardware Errors

hhupd HTML Help Update (1.4)

crlupd Erroneous VeriSign-Issued Digital Certificates Pose Spoofing Hazard - Security Update

313829 Unchecked Buffer in Windows Shell Could Lead to Code Execution

329115 Certificate validation flaw might permit identity spoofing

scr56 Windows Script 5.6

891711 Vulnerability Patch

instmsia Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable

240075 USB Devices May Not Work in Windows 98 Second Edition

870669 Disable ADODB.Stream object from Internet Explorer

833989 Internet Explorer Update

245682 IDE-Controller disabled in Device-Manager

287564 Security Update for Movie Maker 1.0

896358 Update

888113 Vulnerability in Hyperlink-Objectlibray could allow remote code execution

891781 Security Update for Internet Explorer

249635 USB Update hidclass.sys 4.10.2223

unicows Microsoft Layer for Unicode

253697 USB Enumeration Problems with

OpenHCI Controller on Fast Computers

rootsupd Root Certificate Update

249146 Sounds May Be Disabled Using PlaySound API with USB HID Devices Present

241084 Computer Hangs Entering ACPI S4 Mode with USB Device

306453 You Receive a Bugcheck in Usbhub.sys When You Remove or Add a USB Device

274370 Windows 98 Second Edition Patch for Error Message on a Blue Screen When You Try to Play Digital CD Audio

290831 Windows 98 Second Edition SRB_FUNCTION_SHUTDOWNRequests Not Sent to SCSI Miniports During Shutdown Patch

269601 Windows Driver Model Audio Update for Windows 98 Second Edition (WDM)

272137 GetShortPathName() Does Not Work When It Is Passed a Long File Name from A Novell NetWare Server

288430 Laptop Computer Hangs During Docking or Undocking

259253 ACPI Computer with Anti-Virus Software Installed Stops Responding When You Restart Computer

904706 Security Update for DirectX 9

908519 Vulnerability in Embedded Web Fonts Could Allow Remote Code Execution

918439 Vulnerability in ART Image Rendering Could Allow Remote Code Execution

917344 Vulnerability in Microsoft JScript Could Allow Remote Code Execution

918547 Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution KB936782 Security Update for Windows Media Player 9 (2007)

KB941569 Vulnerability in Windows Media file format could allow remote code execution (2007)

KB923789 Security Update for Flash Player (2008)

KB953838 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (October, 2008) b>

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For the additional Features and addons the credits go to MDGx,Xeno86 (KernelEx) and Jay E (Taskbar Shuffle),

so a big thank you guys off your offering these great freeware and GPL License products !!!

Further informations:

See here on the Website

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Edited by win 98 fan

Before anyone bash this. This is for old machines or for people who build machines for legacy software. Not everyone wants/needs/has the means to have the newest software or hardware.

KEEP THIS IN MIND!!!

^ Or for people who are like me and like to play with old OSes.

I hear you. :) (Y)

Either way, this is valid. I dont know why so many people bash this everytime is posted.

Either way, this is valid. I dont know why so many people bash this everytime is posted.

It's because people are so hooked onto their precious Vista and Leopard machines that they can't stand the sight of Windows 98 being brought back to life.

I, personally, have only a Debian box, my XP laptop, and my Mac OS Panther... Mac. I just choose not to run Vista. Why? Because I don't like Vista.

Before anyone bash this. This is for old machines or for people who build machines for legacy software. Not everyone wants/needs/has the means to have the newest software or hardware.

KEEP THIS IN MIND!!!

I'm sure this would go well with Windows NT4 Visual Update project... and the rumored community built SP 6.5 may come around soon.

http://winprj.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=113

I'm sure this would go well with Windows NT4 Visual Update project... and the rumored community built SP 6.5 may come around soon.

http://winprj.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=113

Wasnt the community SP declared abandoned some time ago? :blink: Or I am thinking about something else?

Wasnt the community SP declared abandoned some time ago? :blink: Or I am thinking about something else?

I think someone else revived it, but it may be dead again. It's NT4 after all, very few hobbyist developers are really giving it their full interests at this point. ;)

Wow that, went fast, sooo fast responds, you are all awesome-

is this from m$ft? or a third party addon? my aunt might need this for her oldie pentium 2 233 with a whopping MMX2!

Well I'd say it's third party, I did work on it, and I'm not a member of M$, but it relies on available Microsoft Updates, and some third Party software(like KernelEX and Tasbar Shuffle).

  • 5 weeks later...
1 decade old OS , 1 brand NEW Upgrade Pack, BUT AT LEAST 1 Feature more than VISTA!
You got to be joking me right? Taskbar Shuffle work on XP and Vista... how on earth you can say that your little unsupported OS have something more than Vista when Vista support the same app that add this "feature".

We can't even count all features that Vista have that 98 don't have.

I know this is for old PCs, but talking about it as it would the the best thing ever is just a joke...

Win 98? Are you kidding? Well, maybe to play some of those old classic games . . .

But I'd much rather roll a Linux on an old machine.

That's great. But some of us would prefer to use Windows 98, for the same reasons you might prefer to use Linux. Because it works and we're comfortable with it.

Personally, I love running old operating systems in virtual machines, just to see what they were like.

Personally, I love running old operating systems in virtual machines, just to see what they were like.

Me too. :D

But I'd much rather roll a Linux on an old machine.

I run Fedora 10 on my print server. A Pentium III 550 with 192 MB RAM. :p

  • 2 weeks later...

My daughter's grandma just picked up a 200MHz Pentium MMX Laptop w/ 96 Megs RAM at some garage sale for next to nothing.

It wouldn't boot up. I went over it with a fine toothed comb. Pulled it apart, cleaned it with rubbing alcohol, identified a very bad hard drive (lots of physical bad spots all over the disc), popped in a new 3 Gig drive, DBAN'd it, and got Windows 98 SE installed and up an running.

After hunting down drivers, I loaded up two things I've relied on for Win98:

- The USB update. A *must* for 98! While 98 supports all kinds of USB stuff, it didn't have the "generic" mass storage USB drivers included.

- The unofficial 98 service pack. I know there is a "3.xx" in beta, but I grabbed the last 2.xx version since I've used that before.

I would NOT consider 98SE/Me a primary OS for the Desktop any more (there are about zero reasons to even touch 3.1/95/original 98/NT4) if you have decent hardware.

If you must use old hardware, please don't use less than Windows XP on it. XP supports most stuff out there, and it's pretty darn secure if you have it up to date with a nice virus scanner installed (such as Avast!).

If your system is too old or too slow to run XP, then you should spend a few bucks and get a better system. Seriously, people are throwing away "ancient" Pentium III machines that would run XP just fine.

If you have an older system that is just too nice to throw away (such as a perfectly fine, working laptop), 98SE can be fun on it.

Unofficial addons are a requirement now. Microsoft never added features they should have, and they also stopped supporting the OS back in 2006.

I have a ThinkPad 560X that I use to take to school with me. Pentium MMX 233 MHz, 96 Megs RAM. It unfortunately had some issues with the sound drivers available for it (crap), so I'd end up with Blue Screens in 98SE. I have Windows 2000 crammed on it. Having just 96 Megs RAM hurts, but that's all it supports.

If I knew I could find better drivers for it, I'd probably have 98SE back on it.

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