W95 4.0.950b Updates

**houseisland** · October 19th, 2007, 08:09 PM

I am building some reference VMs, and I just killed my Windows 95b (4.0.950b) VM by following an update/patch path that was posted on the Web. The recommended kernal update killed the installation.

No matter -- it takes all of 15 minutes or so to build the basic VM.

I used have all this stuffed documented and had all the necessary files at hand, but it has been so long since I have had to use any of it.

Does anyone know of a safe update/patch guide for 4.0.950b?

MS is not much help with this, although to their credit they do still keep most of the necessary patches available -- it's just difficult to determine which ones are appropriate.

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**Platypus** · October 19th, 2007, 09:23 PM

I can't vouch for it myself, but I do see this site recommended by an MS MVP:

http://www.hpcfactor.com/support/pat...95/default.asp

"Published: December 13, 2003 | Article last Reviewed: February 18, 2007"

**houseisland** · October 20th, 2007, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Platypus

I can't vouch for it myself, but I do see this site recommended by an MS MVP:

http://www.hpcfactor.com/support/pat...95/default.asp

"Published: December 13, 2003 | Article last Reviewed: February 18, 2007"

Thanks.

Now begins the task of tracking down things since almost all links for W95 patchs pointing to MS are broken, as are links within MS's own KBs.

Found some stuff in European FTP archives but the language versions are wrong. Found some stuff in an African university FTP site.

I can't find the W95 Windows Library Update (MFCLibrary) anywhere though, and I haven't tracked down an English Y2K patch.

Oh well....

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**houseisland** · October 20th, 2007, 04:08 PM

Done.

Most tedious.

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**Platypus** · October 20th, 2007, 08:25 PM

Congrats!

I was just going to post that if you can interpret the filenames from the info in the index.tx file, there's heaps like the AMDK6UPD.EXE & VBRUN etc here:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/

**houseisland** · October 21st, 2007, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Platypus

Congrats!

I was just going to post that if you can interpret the filenames from the info in the index.tx file, there's heaps like the AMDK6UPD.EXE & VBRUN etc here:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/

Hi,

I got some things from there as well, but the Y2K update and the Windows Library patches are conspicuously absent as is the MS Java install file.

One must travel around the globe to find everything.

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