Windows Update Restored Inventory Support Summary

Made by: WULover

This document lists all languages Windows Update Restored supports with its available inventories, sorted by operating system and Internet Explorer version.
This summary was written after cleaning the websites for incorrect/corrupted/modified/unknown inventory files and languages. Support for a lot of languages may be indicated as lacking by the above lists. 
An "inventory" is a set of files Windows Update used back then to check for installed components on your system. These files usually end with ".inv", ".bm", ".gng", ".des", ".plt", ".bkf", ".as" or ".cdm".
We only need the ones with the bold formatting.

Warning!
Having an inventory available does not mean that all the updates it contains will install properly. We may still lack ".cif" files and updates to achieve this level of functionality!

Contribute!
You can contribute to the Windows Update Restored project by analyzing your old Windows installations (before 2012) for Windows Update inventories. Either manually check "C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate" or use the Inventory Checker tool, available on the following website :
 - http://www.windowsupdaterestored.com/en/downloads/wurinvchecker.htm

Caption :
IE4 : Internet Explorer 4.0x
IE5 : Internet Explorer 5.0x
IE55 : Internet Explorer 5.5x
IE6 : Internet Explorer 6.0x

Windows Update Restored V2
Language Summary
Updated: 2026-06-13

Note: Specifically for the V2 website, this also applies to the website itself (display language).

Operating Systems / Supported Language (Internet Explorer) :
 - Windows 95 : None
 - Windows NT 4.0 : None
 - Windows 98 (First Edition) : French (IE4), English (IE4), German (IE4)
 - Windows 98 (Second Edition) : None/Not supported
 - Windows Millennium Edition : None/Not supported
 - Windows 2000 : None/Not supported

Windows Update Restored V3.1
Language Summary
Updated: 2026-06-13

Operating Systems / Supported Language (Internet Explorer) :
 - Windows 95 : English (IE5), English (IE55), French (IE55), German (IE55), Italian (IE55), Russian (IE55)
 - Windows NT 4.0 : English (IE5), French (IE5), English (IE55), French (IE55), German (IE55), French (IE6), English (IE6), German (IE6)
 - Windows 98 (First Edition) : English (IE5), Spanish (IE5), French (IE5), Danish (IE5), Japanese (IE5), Chinese Simplified (IE5), English (IE55), French (IE6), English (IE6), Japanese (IE6)
 - Windows 98 (Second Edition) : Same as Windows 98 First Edition
 - Windows Millennium Edition : French (IE55), English (IE55), Italian (IE55), English (IE6)
 - Windows 2000 : English (IE5), English (IE55), English (IE6)

Additional Resources
 - http://www.windowsupdaterestored.com/en/support/kb_articles.htm
 - http://www.windowsupdaterestored.com/en/download-center/