| Windows 98se (Second Edition) Stuff |
| Vmware Workstation Note - You have to manually install the mouse driver. Just go into device manager and update the driver, it is in the vmware tools folder in \programs\vmware tools... |
| Windows 98 Updates & Service Packs |
| UNICOWS |
Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95, 98, and Me Systems, 1.1.3790.0 (if using KernelEX - copy to system folder) |
| Windows 98 SP3 v3.66 |
Unofficial Serive Pack 3 - adds a lot of nice fixes to Windows 98se |
| Windows 98 SP3 v3.65 |
Unofficial Serive Pack 3 - adds a lot of nice fixes to Windows 98se |
| Windows 98 SP3 v3.64 |
Unofficial Serive Pack 3 - adds a lot of nice fixes to Windows 98se |
| Windows 98 SP3 v3.56 |
Unofficial Serive Pack 3 - adds a lot of nice fixes to Windows 98se |
| Windows 98 SP3 v3.53 |
Unofficial Serive Pack 3 - adds a lot of nice fixes to Windows 98se |
| Windows 98 SP3 v3.47 |
Unofficial Serive Pack 3 - adds a lot of nice fixes to Windows 98se |
| More versions |
Unofficial Serive Pack 3 - adds a lot of nice fixes to Windows 98se |
| DirectX 9.0c |
December 2006 release. This is the last release for Windows 98se. |
| MSI Installer |
This update lets Windows 98 install .msi files. |
| NUSB36e |
These drivers offer generic USB mass storage support for Windows 98SE. |
| NUSB33e |
These drivers offer generic USB mass storage support for Windows 98SE. |
| KernelEx 4.5.2 |
KernelEx is an Open Source compatibility layer with an aim to allow running Windows 2000/XP-only applications on Microsoft Windows 98 and Microsoft Windows Millennium operating systems. |
| Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 |
You'll want to install this if you plan to use the Revolutions Pack. You also need to install this before installing Windows 98 SP3. |
| Visual Basic 6.0 Sp5 |
VB6 runtime files. Lots of programs need these |
| Windows Script Control |
Used by various programs such as Color Selector 3.01 |
| GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment |
Last version of the runtime to work with Windows 98 (Needed for GIMP) |
| gdiplus.dll |
Needed for many programs such as X-Setup Pro |
| ASPI Drivers |
Adaptec ASPI Drivers 4.71 (Needed for CDex). |
| MFC |
The Microsoft foundation class library (version 4.21.7303) |
| Visual C++ 6.0 Runtimes |
Redistributable runtimes for Visual C++ 6.0 |
| Visual C++ 5.0 Runtimes |
Redistributable runtimes for Visual C++ 5.0 |
| Internet |
| Web Browsers |
| Firefox 3.6.28 |
Although this version of Firefox requires the KernelEx patch, it is by far the best browser available for Windows 98 |
| Opera v10.61 |
Last version of Opera to work with Windows 98se (Includes MSIMG32.DLL FIX) |
| Firefox 2.0.0.20 |
Last version of Firefox to run on standard Win 98se |
| Firefox 10.0.12 ESR |
This version of Firefox requires Windows 98 Service Pack 3 and KernelEx 4.5.2 or higher |
| Off By One v3.5d |
Very small, self contained browser supporting SSL. |
| Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6 |
Very popular browser back in the day. |
| Retrozilla 2.2 |
Great rehash of the Gecko engine |
| IRC Clients |
| mIRC v6.35 |
Last version of mIRC to work with Windows 98 |
| Polaris SE v4.2 |
Polaris SE is an all around user friendly mIRC script. The scripts main objective is to easily allow users to share files among one another over the IRC medium |
| FTP Clients |
| MicroFTP 2000 v2.6 |
MicroFTP 2000 is a free, easy-to-use FTP Client program that will allow you to quickly transfer files to and from any FTP web site |
| WSftp-32 |
Great little ftp program that has been rock solid for me over the years |
| FileZilla 2.2.22 |
Last version to support Windows 98 |
| WinSCP 4.4.0 |
WinSCP is a graphical interface for SCP / SFTP. |
| Internet Server |
| Apache2Triad 1.2.3 |
Basically a LAMP Stack for Windows 98 |
| Abyss X1 Web Server v1.2.3.0 |
One of the best Windows 98 web servers |
| Remote Control |
| TightVNC 1.3.10 |
Remote control client / server for Windows 95/98/NT4 |
| Putty 0.61 |
My favorite SSH Client. Last version to work with Windows 98SE |
| Miscellaneous |
| NetTime 3.14 |
Use this program if you want to keep your computers clock sync'd with an internet time server |
| WebTime 2000 v3.9 |
WebTime 2000 is a small utility program that will synchronize your PC's internal clock with one of the several atomic clocks maintained by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| HTML PhotoGallery v1.44 |
This program will create a photo album of pictures in Jpeg format. Navigation is accomplished by creating web (.Html) files. The program correctly handles folders with sub folders, creating navigation links between the subfolders. It also creates thumbnails of your .Jpg files. Finally, you can create DirInfo.txt files to add captions to your photos. The program is compatible with all versions of Windows (9x/NT/2000/ME/XP). A sample photo album has been included (Unzip file ExamplePhotoAlbum.zip) illustrating the proper use of DirInfo.txt and DoNotModify.txt files |
| Utilities |
| Compression Utilities |
| WinZip 9.0 SR-1 |
Last version of this fine compression program that work with Windows 98se |
| 7Zip v9.20 |
Last version of this fine compression program that work with Windows 98se |
| 7Zip v16.02 |
Latest version of 7Zip for Windows 98. It isn't an installer version. Install v9.20 then extract this over the files in that directory |
| WinRAR 3.80 |
Every Windows 98 user should install this |
| Graphics Utilities |
| SnagIt 7.2.5 |
Awesome sreen capture utility. They gave away this key back in the day - YW6RC-4YMK6-SZBBD-C2MCW-Q9D96 |
| File Utilities |
| Bulk Rename Utility |
Version 2.7.02 (Last Win98 version). Great for file renaming |
| TreeSize 9x |
Neat program to show the file size of all your directories |
| File Managers |
| Total Commander v8.52 |
One of the best all around file managers |
| Xplorer2 v3.1.0.1 |
Alternative to Windows Explorer |
| Q-Dir 6.24 |
an amazing quad split screen file manager |
| EF Commander v11.11 |
Very nice Norton Commander clone |
| Notepad++ 5.9.2 |
Extract the .zip and use the progran in the "ansi" folder |
| Backup Utilities |
| Cobian Backup v7 |
Really great backup program |
| Web Design Utilities |
| CheckWeb v1.2 |
Check HTML Links - run from DOS prompt with format - "checkweb http://someurl.com" |
| Miscellaeous Utilities |
| WinImage 8.1 |
WinImage is a fully-fledged disk-imaging suite for easy creation, reading and editing of many image formats and fileystems, including DMF, VHD, FAT, ISO, NTFS and Linux. |
| TCP Optimizer v3.08 |
Must have for Windows 98. Optimizes TCP/IP Stack and makes a HUGE difference in download speeds |
| DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 |
Make backup copies of your DVD's by ripping and decrypting them |
| Daemon Tool 3.46 |
great utility for mounting ISO images as a drive. |
| VirtualCloneDrive 5.4.8.0 |
great utility for mounting ISO and other images as a drive. |
| CGterm 1.7b2 |
Best color graphics telnet terminal program for calling Commodore 64 telnet BBSes |
| QuickPar 0.9.1 |
if you don't know what this is for, you don't need it |
| CrapCleaner v2.29 |
Handy utility for cleaning up crap other programs leave behind |
| TweakUI 1.33 |
Microsoft utility to tweak Windows 98 settings |
| Faber Toys V2.6 Build 52 |
Faber Toys is a system utility, mainly developed for power users who want to know what's going on in their Personal Computer. It may also be used by programmers as a tool for tracking their applications |
| Process View |
PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows |
| X-Setup Pro 9.2.100 |
S/N - XSA092-11TA9R-8K12YT | ultimate system "tweaking" tool for Win 9x |
| Icon Spy 1.3 |
Find and extract icons from system files |
| CDex v1.51 |
Rip music to MP3 - needs UNICOWS and ASPI Drivers |
| CacheMan 5.5.0 |
Cache Manger for Windows 98 |
| IOmegaWare v2.2 |
Just what you need if you have a ZIP or Jaz drive. |
| Anti-Virus Utilities |
| Process Explorer 8.5.2 |
If you want to know what is running on your Win98 box, this is the tool. Also has a nice CPU Utilitization task tray mode |
| ClamWin 0.99 |
Up to date antivirus for Win 9x and others |
| TZ Data Editor |
Lets you edit Windows timezone data because the goverment keeps screwing with Daylight Savings Time |
| CD / DVD Burning & Ripping Utilities |
| ImgBurn 2.5.1.0 |
Really good CD/DVD burning software |
| ImgBurn 2.5.8.0 |
Newest version of ImgBurn to work on Win 98se |
| Text Edit Utilities |
| MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004 |
MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004 is advanced HTML editor that can edit as many files at a time as you want, plus it has advanced customizable syntax highlighting, undo / redo, drag & drop editing, right-click tag editing, extended find & replace, template support, project management, auto updating code snippets, code library, tag case changing capability, spelling & grammar check and more... There are also 28 Tag Designers for almost every HTML tag, a Power Toolbar that contains almost all HTML tags, Built-In Image Browser / Viewer with GIF Optimize function and ability to convert images to WBMP image format which is used by WAP-compatible mobile phones, Built-In JavaScript Beauty Scripts (rollovers, slideshows, etc.), Built-In Support for HTML TIDY, Internal Preview using Internet Explorer and Mozilla and much more... |
| Notepad++ 5.9.2 |
Extract the .zip and use the progran in the "ansi" folder |
| Developer Utilities |
| Color Selector 3.01 |
Nice utility for converting colors to various numeric equivalents |
| Just Color Picker 4.4 |
Neat utility to get the color values for anything under the cursor |
| Multimedia Utilities |
| WinAMP |
WinAMP 5.35 - Best MP3 player ever made |
| MP3Gain v1.2.5 |
Program to normalize the sound level on MP3's |
| Trout Player v1.06 |
Nice MP3 (plus others) player |
| Foobar 2000 v0.8.3 |
Very popular MP3 player |
| WMP9 |
Windows Media Player 9 |
| WinAMP 5.33 |
last version of WinAMP to support Windows 98 AND CD Burning |
| Sound Editing Utilities |
| GoldWave 5.25 |
Really nice Sound Editor for Windows 98 |
| Video Utilities |
| Vidomi .469 |
This was one of the best DVD to DiVX conveters I ever used on Windows 98 |
| K-Lite Codecs 3.4.5 |
Codecs for various video compression. You'll need this to view things like DiVX / XViD |
| VLC 0.8.6i |
Video LAN player for watching DiVX, XViD, etc... (Needs specific UCOWS from the updates section above) |
| DVD Shrink 3.2 |
Nice program for converting DVD9 movies to fit on a DVD5 Disc |
| Emulators |
| Commodore 64 Emulators |
| WinVICE 2.4 x86 |
Best ever Commodore emulator! |