WU v4 for WinMe

For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows Updates
for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site, in spite of
being out of Support by some 18 months.

Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical Updates/Service
Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there. Using
broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD (2004)
and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.

Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It would be
a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web space.

Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been pruned
somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please don't
abandon us altogether.

Mart

Mike
Wed Dec 19 17:55:07 PST 2007

> Windows
> Updates for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU

I've been keeping my eye on the WU site for a while now, in fact ever
since the "can't help, you're using a Mac" episode earlier this year.
I've got an "out of the box" clean install of Win Me (on a virtual
machine) that has never been updated and have got into the habit of firing
it up and checking WU with it every couple of weeks or so.

> Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD)

Oh dear! I thought it was only me that had that sort of misfortune. I
hope you didn't lose anything too important.

> Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been
> pruned somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS -
> please don't abandon us altogether.

This is something that is particularly annoying me. Fortunately I've got
a 2005 copy of the KB installed from TechNet on this box so can see the
old articles even if they have been withdrawn. What I don't understand is
why some very very old KB articles still remain whilst some needed by
those running Win Me have gone.
--
Mike - disc in post


Mart <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote:

> For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
> Updates for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU
> site, in spite of being out of Support by some 18 months.
>
> Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical
> Updates/Service Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language
> fixes) are there. Using broadband, it wasn't very much slower than
> using the MS Security CD (2004) and all (seemingly) installed in
> their correct sequence.
> Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It
> would be a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so
> of web space.
> Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been
> pruned somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS -
> please don't abandon us altogether.

Joan
Thu Dec 20 05:34:18 PST 2007

That's worth knowing as I still have the WinME box here that Kelly used and
I now keep for storage and for John to use if he has problems with his XP
box.
It's never had to be re-installed though and has all the critical updates
that were made available for WinME before support was stopped.
Joan


"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:#hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
> Updates for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site,
> in spite of being out of Support by some 18 months.
>
> Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical Updates/Service
> Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there. Using
> broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD (2004)
> and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.
>
> Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It would
> be a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web
> space.
>
> Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been pruned
> somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please don't
> abandon us altogether.
>
> Mart
>

webster72n
Thu Dec 20 17:21:15 PST 2007

Mart:

Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary S.
Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
Windows Security Updates.
Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for myself at
the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.

Harry.


"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
Updates
> for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site, in spite
of
> being out of Support by some 18 months.
>
> Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical Updates/Service
> Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there. Using
> broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD (2004)
> and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.
>
> Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It would
be
> a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web space.
>
> Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been pruned
> somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please don't
> abandon us altogether.
>
> Mart
>
>

Mart
Thu Dec 20 18:53:37 PST 2007

Yes Harry, I was aware. But I was just alerting folks to the fact that they
are still (currently) available on the MS WU site, especially with the
recent pruning/modifications/rationalisation of the KB and the fact that
WinMe is now some 18 months out of Support time. And, a plaintive plea for
continued consideration by MS - assuming they still read the WinMe NG's!

Therefore for those who were thinking of doing a 'Clean Install' of WinMe, -
for whatever reason - now *might be* a good time, especially for those other
folk who weren't aware or hadn't got a copy of Gary's CD's. Unless MS
continue their unofficial support of course!

> .. I secured the two CD's for myself at
> the time, ..

You cant beat Belt & Braces Harry, but every Boy Scout also carries a piece
of string <g>

Mart



"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:evFWt92QIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Mart:
>
> Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary S.
> Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
> Windows Security Updates.
> Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for myself
> at
> the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
>
> Harry.
>
>
> "Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
> Updates
>> for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site, in spite
> of
>> being out of Support by some 18 months.
>>
>> Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical
>> Updates/Service
>> Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there.
>> Using
>> broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD
>> (2004)
>> and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.
>>
>> Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It would
> be
>> a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web space.
>>
>> Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been
>> pruned
>> somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please don't
>> abandon us altogether.
>>
>> Mart
>>
>>
>
>

Mart
Thu Dec 20 18:59:19 PST 2007

Indeed Joan, had it not been for the failing HDD, I probably wouldn't have
been too bothered and just 'settled' for WU advising that my previously
working installation was 'up to date'.

I guess it's called 'Peace of Mind'!

Mart


"Joan Archer" <archer_joan@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ew%23SM0wQIHA.5016@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> That's worth knowing as I still have the WinME box here that Kelly used
> and I now keep for storage and for John to use if he has problems with his
> XP box.
> It's never had to be re-installed though and has all the critical updates
> that were made available for WinME before support was stopped.
> Joan
>
>
> "Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:#hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
>> Updates for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site,
>> in spite of being out of Support by some 18 months.
>>
>> Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical
>> Updates/Service Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes)
>> are there. Using broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS
>> Security CD (2004) and all (seemingly) installed in their correct
>> sequence.
>>
>> Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It would
>> be a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web
>> space.
>>
>> Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been
>> pruned somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please
>> don't abandon us altogether.
>>
>> Mart
>>

Mart
Thu Dec 20 19:02:39 PST 2007

"Mike M" wrote in message :-

> ... - disc in post

Cheers Mike, I'll be listening for Santa's sleigh bells - or the front door
bell, whichever sounds first <g>

Mart

webster72n
Thu Dec 20 19:41:55 PST 2007


"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:ewx2vy3QIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Yes Harry, I was aware. But I was just alerting folks to the fact that
they
> are still (currently) available on the MS WU site, especially with the
> recent pruning/modifications/rationalisation of the KB and the fact that
> WinMe is now some 18 months out of Support time. And, a plaintive plea for
> continued consideration by MS - assuming they still read the WinMe NG's!
>
> Therefore for those who were thinking of doing a 'Clean Install' of
WinMe, -
> for whatever reason - now *might be* a good time, especially for those
other
> folk who weren't aware or hadn't got a copy of Gary's CD's. Unless MS
> continue their unofficial support of course!
>
> > .. I secured the two CD's for myself at
> > the time, ..
>
> You cant beat Belt & Braces Harry, but every Boy Scout also carries a
piece
> of string <g>

Ever so true, Mart and a Merry Chrismas and a truly Happy New Year to you,
too.

>
> Mart
>
>
>
> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:evFWt92QIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Mart:
> >
> > Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary
S.
> > Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> > participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
> > Windows Security Updates.
> > Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> > necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for
myself
> > at
> > the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
> >
> > Harry.
> >
> >
> > "Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> > news:%23hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >> For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
> > Updates
> >> for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site, in
spite
> > of
> >> being out of Support by some 18 months.
> >>
> >> Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical
> >> Updates/Service
> >> Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there.
> >> Using
> >> broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD
> >> (2004)
> >> and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.
> >>
> >> Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It
would
> > be
> >> a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web
space.
> >>
> >> Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been
> >> pruned
> >> somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please
don't
> >> abandon us altogether.
> >>
> >> Mart
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

O
Thu Dec 20 21:24:09 PST 2007

Hello Harry!

How does one obtain the 2 CD's of Win 98 and ME updates from Gary?

Do I just email him at: http://www.grystmill.com/ ?

Also, I thought I read that Shane Beatson also had a CD set. But his home
page of http://website.lineone.net/~shanebeatson/index.htm seems dead now.

Thanks,
O.J.


"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:evFWt92QIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Mart:
>
> Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary S.
> Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
> Windows Security Updates.
> Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for myself
> at
> the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
>
> Harry.
>

Mart
Fri Dec 21 04:46:44 PST 2007

Postman Pat won!

Thanks Mike.

Mart


"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23TGaz33QIHA.4180@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "Mike M" wrote in message :-
>
>> ... - disc in post
>
> Cheers Mike, I'll be listening for Santa's sleigh bells - or the front
> door bell, whichever sounds first <g>
>
> Mart
>

Mike
Fri Dec 21 06:27:12 PST 2007

Mart <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote:

> Postman Pat won!
>
> Thanks Mike.

Thanks for that Mart. I just hope that PP has managed to deliver the rest
of that batch of post! <vbg>
--
Mike

webster72n
Fri Dec 21 08:13:38 PST 2007


"O.J. Newman" <ojn@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
news:OsTgCH5QIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hello Harry!
>
> How does one obtain the 2 CD's of Win 98 and ME updates from Gary?
>
> Do I just email him at: http://www.grystmill.com/ ?

Just discovered it was way back in March, when I got mine.
Try and contact him at this address:
webmaster@grystmill.com
If no joy, use your's. If neither works, contact me at my email address and
I will give you his home address. The cost 'was' $3.
His collection is more complete than Shane's and he's disappeared from the
scene,
by the looks of it. <H>.

>
> Also, I thought I read that Shane Beatson also had a CD set. But his home
> page of http://website.lineone.net/~shanebeatson/index.htm seems dead now.
>
> Thanks,
> O.J.
>
>
> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:evFWt92QIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Mart:
> >
> > Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary
S.
> > Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> > participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
> > Windows Security Updates.
> > Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> > necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for
myself
> > at
> > the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
> >
> > Harry.
> >
>
>

O
Fri Dec 21 11:48:15 PST 2007

Hi Harry!

Thanks for the info!

O.J.

"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23knIXw%23QIHA.2000@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> "O.J. Newman" <ojn@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> news:OsTgCH5QIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hello Harry!
>>
>> How does one obtain the 2 CD's of Win 98 and ME updates from Gary?
>>
>> Do I just email him at: http://www.grystmill.com/ ?
>
> Just discovered it was way back in March, when I got mine.
> Try and contact him at this address:
> webmaster@grystmill.com
> If no joy, use your's. If neither works, contact me at my email address
> and
> I will give you his home address. The cost 'was' $3.
> His collection is more complete than Shane's and he's disappeared from the
> scene,
> by the looks of it. <H>.
>
>>
>> Also, I thought I read that Shane Beatson also had a CD set. But his home
>> page of http://website.lineone.net/~shanebeatson/index.htm seems dead
>> now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> O.J.
>>
>>
>> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:evFWt92QIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> > Mart:
>> >
>> > Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary
> S.
>> > Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
>> > participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and
>> > the
>> > Windows Security Updates.
>> > Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
>> > necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for
> myself
>> > at
>> > the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
>> >
>> > Harry.
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

webster72n
Fri Dec 21 19:08:15 PST 2007


"O.J. Newman" <ojn@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
news:Oi510pARIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Harry!
>
> Thanks for the info!

Hope you get what you are looking for, O.J.
May your Holidays, including Christmas and the New Year, be as good as you
can tolerate. <H>.

>
> O.J.
>
> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23knIXw%23QIHA.2000@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "O.J. Newman" <ojn@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> > news:OsTgCH5QIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> Hello Harry!
> >>
> >> How does one obtain the 2 CD's of Win 98 and ME updates from Gary?
> >>
> >> Do I just email him at: http://www.grystmill.com/ ?
> >
> > Just discovered it was way back in March, when I got mine.
> > Try and contact him at this address:
> > webmaster@grystmill.com
> > If no joy, use your's. If neither works, contact me at my email address
> > and
> > I will give you his home address. The cost 'was' $3.
> > His collection is more complete than Shane's and he's disappeared from
the
> > scene,
> > by the looks of it. <H>.
> >
> >>
> >> Also, I thought I read that Shane Beatson also had a CD set. But his
home
> >> page of http://website.lineone.net/~shanebeatson/index.htm seems dead
> >> now.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> O.J.
> >>
> >>
> >> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:evFWt92QIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> > Mart:
> >> >
> >> > Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago
Gary
> > S.
> >> > Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> >> > participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and
> >> > the
> >> > Windows Security Updates.
> >> > Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> >> > necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for
> > myself
> >> > at
> >> > the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
> >> >
> >> > Harry.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

Reapa
Sat Dec 22 04:13:01 PST 2007



"webster72n" wrote:

> Mart:
>
> Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary S.
> Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
> Windows Security Updates.
> Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for myself at
> the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
>
> Harry.
>
>
> "Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
> Updates
> > for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site, in spite
> of
> > being out of Support by some 18 months.
> >
> > Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical Updates/Service
> > Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there. Using
> > broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD (2004)
> > and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.
> >
> > Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It would
> be
> > a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web space.
> >
> > Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been pruned
> > somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please don't
> > abandon us altogether.
> >
> > Mart
> >
> >
>
>
> Yo, any chance I could still cop a bootleg of those CD's. I'm willing to pay for them, I just missed the opp a few months back I guess. Thanks if anybody can help. I did a search for the guy's name, but no haps. :(

Mart
Sat Dec 22 06:23:18 PST 2007

Reapa wrote :-

> Yo, any chance I could still cop a bootleg of those CD's. etc.

You can download all the files - and subsequently make your own CD - as
follows :-

Instructions, courtesy of Mike M
--
From the Windows Update site. If you don't want to install them immediately
but want to download and install them later, perhaps on another PC, then use
the link to the Windows Update Catalogue on the site. This link doesn't
show
by default and you have to add the link by selecting in the left hand pane
"Personalize Windows Update". Now in the right hand pane check the box
"Display the link to the Windows Update Catalogue" and then click "Save
Settings". Now select "Windows Update Catalogue" in the left hand pane, and
then when the right hand pane opens, use "Find updates for Microsoft Windows
operating systems", then select Windows Millennium Edition and the correct
language then click Search. You can now select which patches, etc. you wish
to download and they can then be downloaded and saved to your hard disk.
--

Having saved the downloaded files to your HDD, then you are in the position
to be able make your own CD (even if you have to move them to yet another pc
with a CD burner)

HTH

Mart

<snip>

webster72n
Sat Dec 22 11:53:33 PST 2007


"Reapa" <Reapa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ABD618F2-1FB4-48A5-8DDE-8918CC72CF23@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "webster72n" wrote:
>
> > Mart:
> >
> > Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary
S.
> > Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> > participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
> > Windows Security Updates.
> > Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> > necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for
myself at
> > the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
> >
> > Harry.
> >
> >
> > "Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> > news:%23hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > > For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
> > Updates
> > > for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site, in
spite
> > of
> > > being out of Support by some 18 months.
> > >
> > > Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical
Updates/Service
> > > Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there.
Using
> > > broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD
(2004)
> > > and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.
> > >
> > > Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It
would
> > be
> > > a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web
space.
> > >
> > > Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been
pruned
> > > somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please
don't
> > > abandon us altogether.
> > >
> > > Mart
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Yo, any chance I could still cop a bootleg of those CD's. I'm willing to
pay for them, I just missed the opp a few months back I guess. Thanks if
anybody can help. I did a search for the guy's name, but no haps. :(

> webmaster@grystmill.com <

just in case you decide to forgo Mart's 'frugal' suggestion.

Reapa
Sat Dec 22 18:03:00 PST 2007

Thanks to everyone. Actually I knew about the update catalog option. Problem
is..the updates wouldn't show up on my xp machine. That new v7 really screwed
up my access so that's why I was looking for some set disks as a hassle
workaround. Guess I'll whip up my ME vhd and see what we get via that route.

"webster72n" wrote:

>
> "Reapa" <Reapa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ABD618F2-1FB4-48A5-8DDE-8918CC72CF23@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> > "webster72n" wrote:
> >
> > > Mart:
> > >
> > > Don't know whether you remember it or not, quite a few months ago Gary
> S.
> > > Terhune (hope to get the name right) made two CD's available for the
> > > participants in this news group, for all the '98 and 'ME Updates and the
> > > Windows Security Updates.
> > > Correct me if I am wrong, but those were supposed to include 'all the
> > > necessary Updates' to my understanding. I secured the two CD's for
> myself at
> > > the time, in order to be prepared for enventualities.
> > >
> > > Harry.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> > > news:%23hLuDAqQIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > > > For those who need to know - and are still interested - the Windows
> > > Updates
> > > > for WinMe are still currently available at the MS WinMe WU site, in
> spite
> > > of
> > > > being out of Support by some 18 months.
> > > >
> > > > Just did a Clean Install (failed HDD) and all 10+ Critical
> Updates/Service
> > > > Packs and 45+ WinMe updates (inc. some 34 language fixes) are there.
> Using
> > > > broadband, it wasn't very much slower than using the MS Security CD
> (2004)
> > > > and all (seemingly) installed in their correct sequence.
> > > >
> > > > Let's hope that MS keep them available for a few more years yet. It
> would
> > > be
> > > > a shame to pull them for the sake of a few hundred MB or so of web
> space.
> > > >
> > > > Have noticed also that the KB articles for WinMe have recently been
> pruned
> > > > somewhat, but at least support is still there. Thanks MS - please
> don't
> > > > abandon us altogether.
> > > >
> > > > Mart
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yo, any chance I could still cop a bootleg of those CD's. I'm willing to
> pay for them, I just missed the opp a few months back I guess. Thanks if
> anybody can help. I did a search for the guy's name, but no haps. :(
>
> > webmaster@grystmill.com <
>
> just in case you decide to forgo Mart's 'frugal' suggestion.
>
>
>

Mike
Sat Dec 22 18:43:44 PST 2007

> Problem is..the updates wouldn't show up on my xp machine.

You're not alone. The new v7 Windows Update Catalogue doesn't contain
entries for Windows Millennium or any other Win 9x system..

> Guess I'll whip up my ME vhd and see what we get via that route.

If you've got VirtualPC set up then give it a whirl however still use the
Catalogue option so that you can easily save the files.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com


Reapa <Reapa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone. Actually I knew about the update catalog option.
> Problem is..the updates wouldn't show up on my xp machine. That new
> v7 really screwed up my access so that's why I was looking for some
> set disks as a hassle workaround. Guess I'll whip up my ME vhd and
> see what we get via that route.

O
Sun Dec 23 21:56:54 PST 2007

Hello:

I just contacted Gary at the address that Harry gave below, and Gary is
still responding and is still supplying the CD's for $3.

FYI.

Cheers,
O.J.

"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Reapa" <Reapa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ABD618F2-1FB4-48A5-8DDE-8918CC72CF23@microsoft.com...
>>
>> >
>> > Yo, any chance I could still cop a bootleg of those CD's. I'm willing
>> > to
> pay for them, I just missed the opp a few months back I guess. Thanks if
> anybody can help. I did a search for the guy's name, but no haps. :(
>
> > webmaster@grystmill.com <
>
> just in case you decide to forgo Mart's 'frugal' suggestion.
>
>