Windows 95/98/2000/XP not supported by Microsoft can also “Windows Update”

If you are still using the old version of Windows system, it is impossible to get updates through official channels because Microsoft officially stopped supporting it.

For these old systems, you may not expect new features to be launched, but there are often security concerns. However, if you give up Windows 95/98/2000/XP for this reason, there may be a solution now.

some GEEKS make “Windows Update” comeing.

A program called ” Windows Update Restored ” has begun to appear. The goal of this project is to recreate “Windows Update” for old systems so that they can continue to add updates and fix bugs or security vulnerabilities.

At the initial stage of this project, it only supports Windows Update v3.1 released in 1997, and the corresponding systems include Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98 (including 98 SE), ME, and 2000 SP2.

It has to be said that the updates back then were really small. For example, the key update of Windows 95 was only 3.1MB, and the security update was only 124KB. The largest was the DX8a recommended update, which reached 11.2MB, but this is optional.

Of course, this project has nothing to do with Microsoft, and all related updates are collected and organized by netizens themselves, so there are still considerable security concerns, and no one is responsible for any problems.

In the future, as more and more Windows versions are eliminated, the plan will gradually add more new versions of Windows Update to support more systems.

• For example, Windows Update v4 corresponds to Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Server 2003.
• Windows Update v5, corresponding to Windows XP, supports Windows 2000 and Server 2003 unofficially.
• Windows Update v6/Web, corresponding to Windows 2000 SP3+, XP, Sever 2003.
• Windows Update v7, corresponding to Windows Vista.