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In July 2006, Microsoft discontinued support for Windows 98, 98SE, and ME. In 2011, they switched off the Windows Update service for those operating systems completely.
So what if I told you that all this – and a lot more – is back thanks to a community effort?
Windows Update Restored (and similar service LegacyUpdate for XP) fully integrates into these old versions of Windows just like the good old days. So lets update Windows like it’s 1999!
Well, 2006, I guess…
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00:00 Time ICEDESK Desk PC & My Bridge PC Setup
03:50 Introducing Windows Update Restored
07:15 Fixing Root Certificate Errors
07:59 Installing Critical & Optional Updates In Windows 9x / ME
10:25 Installing Daemon Tools & Office 2000 Professional
12:15 Automatic Updates In Windows 9x / ME & Installation History
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Wow, the quality of the integrated graphics turned out to be even worse than I thought – and I always thought this was down to the monitor cable 😅
Rest assured that I won't be using this machine for video capture again until I work out how to stick a decent graphics card in there…
1. A firewall does not protect an EoL OS. Viewing a page is all it takes. 2. As a former IT guy, the official MS update CDs are 1-click and much faster. I never want to see that terrible web based updater again. I guess it's neat for nostalgia.
That's incredible!
Back in the day, to update a system was to suffer.
I've actually heard that Windows Update Restored and Legacy Update will be merging in the near future.
This is really usefull. Thank you!
Thank you for this! A few months back, I installed Windows XP SP3 under Proxmox just to see if I could. I never dreamed I would be able to actually update it and now I am as I type this!
Pretty darned cool, but, I'm wondering how long this will exist for. Microsoft shut down other attempts for doing updates like this before back in the day. Working in a PC repair shop, on DSL/Cable speeds of 1 to 5mbps at the time, downloads took FOREVER. A team of people put up a site to package up these updates and let you host the updates locally on your LAN (wooo.. 100mbps bay-beeee) and run the updates that way. You'd periodically get that service to "call home" and grab anything new, but once Microsoft found out how mainstream it was, shut them down and had them redirect to official downloads only, which neutered the abilities of these packages.
Now, I'm thinking of something like nearly 20 years ago or more, so memory is a bit rusty on HOW it was actually done. But I can see MSoft coming after these types of projects.
Needless to say, I'll be putting my 98SE machine up shortly and giving this a run. 😉
Just curious but what is the point of even installing Windows 98 security updates now? It's still going to be extremely outdated and insecure and it's not as though anyone would be using it online now (at least I would hope not).
Actually the win update restored and legacy upstates just joined together 😉
I've just watched a video of a guy performing system updates on a Windows ME computer. I think I may be becoming a nerd.
Never understood the backlash ME and Vista received, they were perfectly fine operating systems for their era.
"Quite the useful tool" — hey, that was my nickname in college! haha
Seriously, though. Standing ovation to all involved in this, and a heartfelt "thanks." What a collection of absolute chads. <3
Oh something akin to legacy-update for even older operating systems, that's cool.
Millennium, Vista and 8.x and newer were/are the WORST!
The Windows ME startup sounds, and it's UI were all from Windows 2000 Professional. it was Microsoft trying to get users used to the new look to make the NT Switch over easier. ME was only a "transitional OS" as they were preparing Windows XP.
I have used something called AutoPatcher in the past. It was great as you could download all the updates into a single package manager and apply them mostly all at once. Certainly less reboots than used to be needed when doing them online.
It was also good because you then had a local copy of all the updates which could be applied to multiple machines. I can't recall how far back it went in terms of Windows versions though, might only have gone back as far as 2K.
This also looks like a great tool to get old updates. I recall back in the 95/98 days building up a folder of various updates that had to be ran manually, what a nightmare!
For those certificates to work you need to make sure your date and time is in sync and correct – sync with NTP after entering the correct date and time, then it should work.
Absolutely amazing. I have (obviously) a number of old machines in the house. Now I can update them automatically rather than having to download each and every update file, only to get an error message saying that update conflicts. Thank you❤🎉😊
Interesting to learn that another Windows Update restoration project exists aside from Legacy Update. I've used Legacy Update before on an XP, 7, and 8.1 virtual machine and with the exception of 8.1 I didn't have any problems with XP and 7 when I tried it a while back.
The overlap between Windows Update Restored and Legacy Update projects around the v5 & v6 version for Windows 2000 and XP is interesting.
Its nice to see how they coexist and that they refer to each other on the versions of Windows where the other project works better such as Legacy Update being better for Vista as noted on the Windows Update Restores website, while the Legacy Update website referring pre-XP version users to Windows Update Restored.
Also had a chuckle when I saw your pinned comment on the screen capture because it looked a bit like late 2000s pointing a zoomed in camera to a monitor for me particularly on the cropped shots like on 8:20.