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Point 1. USB hardware drivers for Win 98 generally came from CDs packaged with the hardware, or downloaded from the Internet. I don't recall that Win 98 itself needed any special changes. Point 2. Computers running Win 95 and Win 98FE had USB ports in the late 1990's. Point 3: Updates for old systems. Go feast at http://www.mdgx.com or http://vetusware.com. Vetus even has Windows 95 as a download (as well as Windows 1.0.1, Windows 3.1, and NT 3.51) -- I'll not guarantee it's complete enough for a real installation. Point 4: Win 98 did not have Microsoft-prepared service packs, that was an innovation with Win 2000. That said, go to Google and look for "Win 98 Service Pack" because half a dozen user-created service packs appeared in the middle of this decade. Basically, these combined MS's hundred or so individual fixes in one convenient package, with some pruning of obsoleted fixes and perhaps a few registry tweaks to alter the looks of your screen. I'll make no recommendations, since there were/are hardware and software dependencies which which might affect performance on your system. On my old machine, after a fair amount of trial and error (installing from scratch, in other words) the best all round pack was Maximus_Decim, but it required Internet Explorer 6; if I kept things simple by sticking to a straight Win 98SE installation, SEPS2.1 (http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html) worked quite satisfactorily. My guess -- not yet tested -- is that the simplest way to use Win 98 on modern hardware is run in a virtual machine (Virtual PC or VMWare) on a Win 2003, Win XP, Win Vista, or Win 7 system. Let your newer operating system provide virus protection and drivers for your readl hardware, while you run Win98 on never-failing simulated hardware. You can probably run quite happily without ever installing any system fixes. Subject: RE: XyWin on XP revisited Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:17:40 -0700 From: Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx You can never get W98 First Edition (and NT4) to recognize USB ports. Only Second Edition, and I'm pretty sure it requires one of the service packs...which, of course, you can no longer get from MS. There used to be sites with full sets of updates for the old systems. But I couldn't tell you what they are.
-B
-----Original Message----- From: Phillip Alder
Is there some way of updating the Win98 that I have? I would really like to be able to copy files in and out using a memory stick. At the moment, I have to use a 3.5 inch disk drive.
Thanks.
Phillip
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