Fooling apps into thinking that Win98 is running?

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Hilarious - 27 Feb 2007 17:07 GMT

While waiting for a more permanent solution to my inability to install
Win98 on my new machine, I thought that I'd try a different approach
to a related problem...

Some games that I have lying around refuse to run on Win 2000 telling
me that this OS is not Windows 98. Changing strings inside browsers
e.g. Opera to masquerade as IE used to be (maybe it still is??) a
standard practice... is there a way to do this in Win 2000 to run
these games? I suspect that the block was put in them to stop folk
trying to run games onthe DirectX-free NT of the time.

I appreciate that this is a Win98 group but some of you might be able
to say what part of the Win98 environment is referred to to when this
judgement is made. If anyone can say how it can be spoofed, that
would be a bonus, of course!

Many thanks,

Hil
the still hopeful

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Franc Zabkar - 27 Feb 2007 21:02 GMT

>While waiting for a more permanent solution to my inability to install
>Win98 on my new machine, I thought that I'd try a different approach
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>Hil
>the still hopeful

I suspect that your games may be looking for various parameters at
this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

"ProductName"="Microsoft Windows 98"
"Version"="Windows 98"
"VersionNumber"="4.10.2222"

- Franc Zabkar

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AlmostBob - 27 Feb 2007 23:27 GMT

& record the current settings, JIC something else refuses to run after the
change

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Ben Myers - 28 Feb 2007 14:55 GMT

Windows 2000 seems to have a limited compatibility mode.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279792

Ben

> While waiting for a more permanent solution to my inability to install
> Win98 on my new machine, I thought that I'd try a different approach
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> Hil
> the still hopeful

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