It's known that M$ shipped system updates with its browser, so that you were forced to become a user of it. I would like to know what updates were shipped with it that were not parts of it.

For example, IE3 shipped with CryptoAPI. IE4 came with a SHELL32.DLL that fixed something according to MDGx' site, but since it also came with the craptacular Active Desktop shell, I'm worried that it will have side-effects.

At the moment it seems to me that it's mainly cryptography updates being shipped with IE, which I need because that seems to be the reason MSN Messenger 5.0 doesn't sign in. Note: I fooled the application into thinking IE is installed by registering IE 9.99 with PROtab.

Is there no one that has knowledge of this? I would imagine at least MDGx would know something.

Anyone? Please?

I'm not sure what do you mean.

IE 6 SP1 contains the following system updates:

AXA.CAB - DirectAnimation (98)
AXA3.CAB - DirectAnimation (98)
CRLUPD.CAB - Windows CRL Update (98, Me)
HHUPD.CAB - Internet Explorer Help Engine (98)
ICWCON.CAB - Internet Connection Wizard (98)
IEDOM.CAB - Microsoft Windows High Encryption (128-bit) Pack (98)
MPLAYER2.CAB - Windows Media Player (98)
OAINST.CAB - OLE Automation (98)
SCR56EN.CAB - Microsoft Windows Scripting Support (98, Me)
TS95.CAB - Task Scheduler (98)
USP10.CAB - Uniscribe (98, Me)

Language Auto-Selection
Arabic Text Support
Hebrew Text Support
Japanese Text Display Support
Korean Text Display Support
Pan-European Text Display Support
Thai Text Support
Vietnamese Text Support
Chinese (Simplified) Text Display Support
Chinese (Traditional) Text Display Support
Japanese Text Input Support
Korean Text Input Support
Chinese (Simplified) Text Input Support
Chinese (Traditional) Text Input Support

For Windows 95, there are the following IE5.5SP2 cabinets available:
AXA.CAB DirectAnimation
AXA2.CAB DirectAnimation Java Classes
AXA3.CAB DirectAnimation
DCOM95.EXE DCOM for Windows 95
DXDDEX.CAB DirectDrawEx
DXMINI.CAB DirectX Layer
HHUPD.CAB Internet Explorer Help Engine
ICWCON.CAB Internet Connection Wizard
IE4MFC40.CAB Foundation Class Libraries
IE4SHL95.CAB Windows Desktop Update
IEDOM.CAB Microsoft Windows High Encryption (128-bit) Pack
MDAC_IE5.CAB MDAC
MPCDCS.CAB Windows Media Player Codecs
MPLAYER2.CAB Windows Media Player
MSN_AUTH.CAB MSN Site Access
NM30.CAB NetMeeting
OAINST.EXE OLE Automation
TS95.CAB Task Scheduler
USP10.CAB Uniscribe
VMX86_01.CAB Microsoft virtual machine
VMX86_02.CAB Microsoft virtual machine
WEBFLDRS.CAB Web Folders

Is this the information you are looking for?

Petr

Yes, most of it, thank you very much. What's missing is what's inside the IE_x.CAB files.