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Since I am on dialup, and the slow gnashing pain of having to download the Windows Updates, I've found a site called
Software Patch. This is a great place to download the updates as files themselves instead of downloading them at the Windows Update site (for example: The XP Service Pack 2 update alone, takes 6 hours to download on dialup). They have updates for all the flavors of Windows from 98/ME/NT/2K/XP, as well as driver updates as well. Once I downloaded all the Windows 98 update files, I burned them onto CD in the event I have to reformat and reinstall, since Windows 98 is unsupported by Microsoft these days. I even did this for XP, so getting my laptop back up and running again doesn't take hours or days, but a mere hour or so. For drivers, I've set up a Windows 98 folder and an XP folder on my desktop, networked to my laptop, when new device driver updates come out, I update them accordingly.
