diff --git a/PC/VC6/bz2.dsp b/PC/VC6/bz2.dsp
index fa1064d86b1..90c4de2ef20 100644
--- a/PC/VC6/bz2.dsp
+++ b/PC/VC6/bz2.dsp
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ RSC=rc.exe
 # PROP Target_Dir ""
 F90=df.exe
 # ADD BASE CPP /nologo /MT /W3 /GX /O2 /D "WIN32" /D "NDEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /YX /FD /c
-# ADD CPP /nologo /MD /W3 /GX /Zi /O2 /I "..\..\Include" /I ".." /I "..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.3" /D "NDEBUG" /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /YX /FD /c
+# ADD CPP /nologo /MD /W3 /GX /Zi /O2 /I "..\..\Include" /I ".." /I "..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.5" /D "NDEBUG" /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /YX /FD /c
 # ADD BASE MTL /nologo /D "NDEBUG" /mktyplib203 /o "NUL" /win32
 # ADD MTL /nologo /D "NDEBUG" /mktyplib203 /o "NUL" /win32
 # ADD BASE RSC /l 0x409 /d "NDEBUG"
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ BSC32=bscmake.exe
 # ADD BSC32 /nologo
 LINK32=link.exe
 # ADD BASE LINK32 kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib /nologo /subsystem:windows /dll /machine:I386
-# ADD LINK32 ..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib /nologo /base:"0x1D170000" /subsystem:windows /dll /debug /machine:I386 /nodefaultlib:"libc" /out:"./bz2.pyd"
+# ADD LINK32 ..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.5\libbz2.lib /nologo /base:"0x1D170000" /subsystem:windows /dll /debug /machine:I386 /nodefaultlib:"libc" /out:"./bz2.pyd"
 # SUBTRACT LINK32 /pdb:none /nodefaultlib
 
 !ELSEIF  "$(CFG)" == "bz2 - Win32 Debug"
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ LINK32=link.exe
 # PROP Target_Dir ""
 F90=df.exe
 # ADD BASE CPP /nologo /MTd /W3 /Gm /GX /Zi /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /YX /FD /c
-# ADD CPP /nologo /MDd /W3 /Gm /GX /Zi /Od /I "..\..\Include" /I ".." /I "..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.3" /D "_DEBUG" /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /YX /FD /c
+# ADD CPP /nologo /MDd /W3 /Gm /GX /Zi /Od /I "..\..\Include" /I ".." /I "..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.5" /D "_DEBUG" /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /YX /FD /c
 # ADD BASE MTL /nologo /D "_DEBUG" /mktyplib203 /o "NUL" /win32
 # ADD MTL /nologo /D "_DEBUG" /mktyplib203 /o "NUL" /win32
 # ADD BASE RSC /l 0x409 /d "_DEBUG"
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ BSC32=bscmake.exe
 # ADD BSC32 /nologo
 LINK32=link.exe
 # ADD BASE LINK32 kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib /nologo /subsystem:windows /dll /debug /machine:I386 /pdbtype:sept
-# ADD LINK32 ..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib /nologo /base:"0x1D170000" /subsystem:windows /dll /debug /machine:I386 /nodefaultlib:"msvcrt" /nodefaultlib:"libc" /out:"./bz2_d.pyd" /pdbtype:sept
+# ADD LINK32 ..\..\..\bzip2-1.0.5\libbz2.lib /nologo /base:"0x1D170000" /subsystem:windows /dll /debug /machine:I386 /nodefaultlib:"msvcrt" /nodefaultlib:"libc" /out:"./bz2_d.pyd" /pdbtype:sept
 # SUBTRACT LINK32 /pdb:none
 
 !ENDIF 
diff --git a/PC/VC6/readme.txt b/PC/VC6/readme.txt
index 11f29c4f0ba..72afeb13092 100644
--- a/PC/VC6/readme.txt
+++ b/PC/VC6/readme.txt
@@ -109,18 +109,18 @@ _tkinter
 
 bz2
     Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library.  Homepage
-        http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
+        http://www.bzip.org/
     Download the source from the python.org copy into the dist
     directory:
 
-    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.3
+    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.5
 
     And requires building bz2 first.
 
-    cd dist\bzip2-1.0.3
+    cd dist\bzip2-1.0.5
     nmake -f makefile.msc
 
-    All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib, which the Python
+    All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.5\libbz2.lib, which the Python
     project links in.