

These are the prerequisites for the installation: This guide assumes a certain level of system components have already been updated. Want to download all of these updates from us? If you would like to make a donation to help towards our running costs, we will provide you with a download link to the files. The Approximate total download size of all the listed updates is 62MB. The following list of updates will provide you with the highest level of security available to Windows 98. Windows 98 First Edition Patches & Updates Guide

Do not serve any information to the Internet from your system, such as using Personal Web Server to host a web site. However if you must use Windows 98, we recommend that you do not directly connect the system to the Internet and minimise any network shares that you setup on the computer. We recommend that if possible you upgrade your computer to Windows 2000 or higher. Whether or not any future patches will be released to the consumer is another matter. This means that while Windows 98 will be regarded as a defunct operating system, work for continuing support for other Microsoft technologies under Windows 98 will continue, as will corporate level patching. In January 2004 Microsoft announced that it would extend the pay-per incident support for Windows 98 until June 2006. Support for Windows 98 was originally supposed to end in December 2003. It is essentially the HPC:Factor recommended updates procedure for using your Handheld PC in conjunction with Windows 98 and Windows 98SE. This information on this page is designed to be a reference for what updates are needed for the operating system.
WINDOWS 98 USB UPDATE UPDATE
Windows 98 currently retains active updates through the Windows Update Service.

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