Subj : Re: Win98 vs Win98se
To   : Marty Blankenship
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Tue Oct 19 2004 09:44 am

-=> Marty Blankenship wrote to Alan Zisman <=-

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 AZ> By the way, there was no simple upgrade path released-- it's not like just
 AZ> downloading a service pack for instance-- it requires getting a full 
Win98S
 AZ> CD and re-installing Windows. That can be done in a way that 'respects'
 AZ> existing application intallations and Windows settings, but it's still a 
fu
 AZ> Windows reinstall.

 MB> I have the full install of Win98SE and I tried to upgrade Win98 first
 MB> edition with it and it won't let me. It keeps telling me that I need a
 MB> Win98SE upgrade disk. I don't want to loose what I already have setup.
 MB> Is there an easy way to upgrade and not loose what I already have
 MB> installed? BTW I am useing Internet connection shareing with Win98
 MB> first edition by way of WinGate and it is working just fine.

3rd party proxy servers such as WinGate run fine with Win98 (or even Win95), 
and provide more options than Microsoft's W98SE ICS.

 OEM copies of Windows (any version) won't install on systems that already have 
a Windows installation unless you trick it... to do so, boot to DOS and type 
the following:

CD \WINDOWS
REN WIN.COM WINCOM.BAK

The check for Windows performed by the OEM versions looks for the Win.com file; 
renaming it lets it continue-- afterwards, it's a standard install which will 
update the existing version. Note however, that after renaming Win.com you 
won't be able to boot to your existing Windows (without renaming it back), so 
make sure you can either access your CD drive from the DOS session or have 
copied the contents of the CD's \WIN98 folder to your hard drive and install 
from there.

(The latter option is preferable if you have enough drive space-- it's a faster 
install, and whenever Windows needs files from the CD in future, it will find 
them automatically. Note that you only need the files directly in the CD's 
\WIN98 folder, not the subfolders within it).
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