I not really agree with your statement.
wsh is not present when you never updated IE. On 9x WSH came with IE or as a seperate package and was never nativaly present in w9x (build 950 and i even think 1111), also first build of NT4 without updating IE didn't have WSH on board.

Why do i need all this for. I am in the migration of user data business and new OS deployments. So 9x is old yes! i see them on monthly base at businesses who not really care about support and have them still up an running.