PROGRAM
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DESCRIPTION
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SIZE
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7Zip
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7Zip is a compression/decompression utility much like WinZip but - at least in newer versions - compacts better than WinZip. This version is compatible with Windows 98SE. (Windows 98/ME)
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1 MB EXE
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
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Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 for reading PDF files. (Windows 98/ME)
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13 MB EXE
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Adobe ImageStyler 1.0
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Great application for quickly adding styling effects to your web graphics. (Windows 98/ME)
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15 MB ZIP
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Adobe Photoshop 7.0
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Photo editing software, comes with ImageReady too. License key required. (Windows 98/ME)
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485 MB ISO
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CutePDF Printer
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Running Windows 98/ME on a system that has no driver support for your new printer? No problem with Print to PDF abilities. (Windows 98/ME)
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4 MB EXE
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Daemon Tools 3.47
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Mount ISO files in a virtual CDROM on our system. (Windows 98/ME).
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2 MB ZIP
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FileZilla 2.2.15
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FTP tool that is free and open source. (Windows 98/ME)
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4 MB EXE
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Graphics Workshop Pro 2.0a
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GWP is great for batch processing of images. I didn’t want to turn on “Active Desktop” in order to use my thousands of JPG images for wallpaper, so I used this tool to convert them all at once to BMP files. I then ran a second pass and converted them to match my screen resolution, maitaining the aspect ratio of course. License key required, available online. (Windows 98/ME)
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6 MB ZIP
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Internet Explorer/Outlook Express 6 SP1
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IE and OE 6 with Service Pack 1. Some applications require at least IE 6 before they will install so this is a good package with which to update your Windows 98SE. (Windows 98SE)
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78 MB ZIP
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Lotus SmartSuite 98 Millenium Edition
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Lotus SmartSuite was a competitor to Microsoft’s Office. (Windows 98/ME)
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315 MB ISO
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Microsoft Office 97
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Office 97 with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and . . . Clippy!!
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280 MB ISO
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NetObjects Fusion 7
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Visual website creator. (Windows 98/ME)
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49 MB EXE
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Norton Ghost Personal Edition
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Great tool for taking snapshot backups of your entire, bootable, Windows 98/ME installation. (Windows 98/ME)
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22 MB ISO
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Paint Shop Pro 4.12
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Jasc Paint Shop Pro 4.12 was one of my favorite, go-to graphics editor applications in the 90’s and even as recent as 2009.
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216 MB ISO
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PKZip for DOS
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In the world of Windows 3.1/95/98, it was still ruled by DOS. This tools is handy for those DOS based apps that rely on it. (Windows 3.1/95/98/ME)
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415 KB EXE
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Plus! Pack for Windows 98
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If you don’t have Windows 98SE/ME then the Plus! pack for Windows 98 will add some fun themes to your Windows 98 install. These are already included in Windows 98SE and Windows ME)
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298 MB ISO
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ProComm Plus 3.0
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This is for your BBS fun! It has a suite of other Internet tools like Mail & News, Telnet, FTP, etc. But the Telnet console for BBS’s with ANSI support is what I used it for back in the day! License key required. (Windows 3.1/95/98/ME also tested OK on Windows 10)
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15 MB ZIP
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Seamonkey Internet Suite
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Seamonkey was based off the old Netscape Navigator internet suite. It comes with a more capable web browser than IE 6 along with a mail and internet news application, an HTML editor tool and a chat tool. (Windows 98/ME)
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13 MB EXE
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SnagIt 7.2.5
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Screen capture utility. (Windows 98 only, does not seem to work on Windows ME)
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12 MB EXE
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WinZip95
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WinZip for Windows 95/98. Although ZIP compression/decompression is built into later versions of Windows, with Windows 95/98 you had to purchase your own zipping tool. Here is WinZip95 that works great with Windows 98SE. Works on Windows ME, but ME has built-in Zip compression & extraction.
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629 KB EXE
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