re: Patches, Upgrades, and Service Packs
Friday, December 19, 2003 at 6:34 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Helen~
(2547 messages posted)
Hi Carl,
Thanks for the thorough explanation. Who, me format...lol. I wouldn't know where
to start. I probably do have the updates that I need, but printed out your reply
for future reference. I hope that if the Update CD becomes available you will let
us know. I have gone to the site and let it scan
my computer then downloaded, but , after reading
posts from others, I'm always worried that my little laptop will crash someday and
have to go in to
the shop. Thanks for your help and best wishes for
the holidays. :o) Helen
On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 6:07 pm, Carl D wrote:
>Hi Helen, you've probably got most of those updates installed right now, the trouble
>with Windows 98 (which I haven't used for a while actually - I'm on XP) is that
the
>average home user doesn't need a lot of the critical updates (network updates etc.)The
>last time I installed 98 I installed all the updates I already had here (from computer
>magazine CD's) - IE6, Media Player 9, DirectX9 etc. then I went to Windows Update
>and let it scan for what I needed, took a note of those updates, let Windows Update
>install them then I went straight to the Corporate site and selected the same updates
>and downloaded them to my hard drive then burnt them to CD for future use. Obviously,
>you probably don't feel like formatting and reinstalling 98 just to find out which
>ones you need :) Mind you, if you have cable or ADSL internet then you could probably
>just download the lot and save them, I don't think it would hurt if you install
updates
>you don't really need... in fact, Windows may flash up a message saying those updates
>are not needed... I'm not sure. If you installed all your updates from Windows
>Update the other thing you can do is go there - that's the "normal" Windows Update
>- and select the option for "Show Installation History" which will give you a list
>of all the updates you've installed - but it will only show you the ones you've
installed
>from Windows Update, if you've installed any updates from computer mag CD's etc.
>(as I've mentioned above) it won't show those... Keep an eye out though... as
I
>said in my post above, I"ve heard MS are thinking about releasing all of the updates
>for 98 on a CD soon... mainly for the benefit of dialup users who don't want to
spend
>hours downloading updates again after formatting and reinstalling. color="#cc0000">Carsize="6" color="#3366ff">l
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