Greetings Don & list--
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From: "Don Penlington" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Laurence writes:
>
> <<I recently installed SP1 onto a W98 pc >>
>
> IE6 was not designed for W98 and proved to be unsuitable on W98 in some
> cases. Depends on your total system configurations, software combinations,
> and probably many other hidden factors. Many people on W98 had to revert
> back to IE5.5.

This may be a little misleading. Microsoft's Security Update CD contained
XP's
SP1 and all security updates until February 2004 *as well as* all security
updates
and Internet Explorer 6 for all versions of Windows beginning with Windows
98.
Since SP1 got nearly as much "press" as SP2 (by 'messing up' some people's
installations), that could have been a source of some people's confusion as
to the
'name' of the update. I used the Security Update CD successfully on a number
of Win98SE computers at my school, after which IE 6 was the browser, and
between 3 and 9 critical updates remained on the windowsupdate critical
updates
list (deprending on how diligent I had been in locating the computers,
getting other
updates, and other factors).

It would be a good idea to follow the rest of Don's instructions to look for
other conflicts.

HTH,

Paul A. Shippert
Utilitarian <G>(Library Media Specialist)
Margaret Brent Middle School

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