Welcome to Australian PC User Magazine Offline CD-ROM
PC User Web Site Games' Guide Education General & Business Applications Online Tools - All your Net Essentials Utilities Patches & Support Files PC User Interactive - Exclusive tutorials nineMSN
Software Contents

Home
Search
Help!

Patches & Support Files

Operating system updates and other helpful files for your system.

bullet.gif (110 bytes)Windows 95
bullet.gif (110 bytes)
Windows 3.1
bullet.gif (110 bytes)Windows NT 4.0

bullet.gif (110 bytes)Bug Patrol

bullet.gif (110 bytes) Dual-booting with NT4

 

Windows 95
Direct-x v5.0
URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/download.asp

Microsoft's extensions for Windows 95. Required for many Win95 games.

 

DirectPlay 5.0a update
URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/download.asp

DirectPlay 5.0a includes fixes for a few minor bugs found in DirectPlay 5.0. The new version is completely backward compatible with earlier versions of DirectPlay.

 

Quicktime for Windows 95

URL: http://www.quicktime.apple.com

32 bit version of the Quicktime runtime files required for playing Quicktime for Windows .MOV video and audio files.

 

Visual Basic Runtime Files

URL: http://www.microsoft.com

These files are required by any program written in the Visual Basic programming language. Because over the years there have been several versions of Visual Basic, diffeent programs may require a different version of the runtime file. Apart from VB Runtime 4.0, which comes with a setup routine, you'll need to copy the other VB Runtime files into your Windows directory.

 

Windows 3.1

Quicktime for Windows 3.1

URL: http://www.quicktime.apple.com

16-bit version of the Quicktime runtime files required for playing Quicktime for Windows .MOV video and audio files.

 

Video for Windows 1.1e

URL: http://www.microsoft.com

Extension to Windows, required for playing Video For Windows .AVI files under Windows 3.1.

 

Windows NT 4.0
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 View the readme file for Windows NT4 Service Pack 3

Microsoft regularly releases enhancements and fixes for Windows NT in the form of service packs. Service Pack 3 has recently been released, focussing on the current curse of Microsoft operating systems: security.

URL: http://www.microsoft.com/NTServerSupport/Content/ServicePacks/Where.htm

 

toppage.gif (1757 bytes)
All text ⌐ 1998 Australian Consolidated Press - PC User Magazine