In August, I inquired about how far back these Forums went as I was trying to get my old Dell Dimension 4100 running with its original W98SE OS. It has been long enough since August that I thought I should start a new thread to answer a question that has arisen.

I now have Win98SE installed and running on the target PC in a clean install on a new hard drive. I want to update W98SE to the point where Microsoft support ceased. I have found what appears to be a consolidated listing of all official Microsoft Win98SE updates on <archive.org> that I was able to download in Zip format to my Win7-Pro PC. I unzipped the file and it appears to be what I am looking for except that the listed items seem to be in random order rather in a release date order. I propose to transfer this set of files to a DVD disc so I can load them to my 'new' W98SE PC.

Q1: Is it reasonably safe to use a file collection obtained as I have described?

Q2: Must Win98SE updates be installed in release date order or can I install the updates in any order?

Thanks, in advance, for advice, cautions, and/or suggestions from anyone familiar with W98SE.