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To extend asyscokid's advice:<br />
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When &quot;starting windows 98&quot; appears hit F8 and in the menu choose &quot;command prompt only&quot;.<br />
Now type this command and hit enter<br />
rename c:\windows\win.com c:\windows\win.old<br />
put in the win98se cd and reboot the computer.<br />
This should start the installation.<br />
When it eventually asks you where to install, probably c:\windows.000, edit this so it says c:\windows and go on with the installation. You will not loose any applications this way.<br />
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Just so that it is said, a clean install is always better, but ofcourse takes a lot longer to make. :~)
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To extend asyscokid's advice:

When "starting windows 98" appears hit F8 and in the menu choose "command prompt only".
Now type this command and hit enter
rename c:\windows\win.com c:\windows\win.old
put in the win98se cd and reboot the computer.
This should start the installation.
When it eventually asks you where to install, probably c:\windows.000, edit this so it says c:\windows and go on with the installation. You will not loose any applications this way.

Just so that it is said, a clean install is always better, but ofcourse takes a lot longer to make. :~)

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Thanks for the help! &nbsp;
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Hi,<br />
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I currently have Win98 first edition. &nbsp;I have Win98 SE full version on CD. &nbsp;Is it possible to install the Win98 SE full version to my system without having to mess anything else up on my machine? &nbsp;I think I remember something about changing a file extension and then trying to overwrite the current version with the full version but can't remember exactly how that all works.<br />
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Thanks for any help,<br />
valvoj
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Hi,

I currently have Win98 first edition.  I have Win98 SE full version on CD.  Is it possible to install the Win98 SE full version to my system without having to mess anything else up on my machine?  I think I remember something about changing a file extension and then trying to overwrite the current version with the full version but can't remember exactly how that all works.

Thanks for any help,
valvoj

upgrade to SE with Full version CD

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