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about win98 update

my son left his win98 disks at school and we can't get his laptop to work with my internet dial up settings - something about the network adapter :) he uses the network at school and when they set it up, someone adjusted his settings.

so - can i buy a win98 upgrade disk and can we install the upgrade without having the original 98 disks?

thanks!

betsy

hewittg

Yes you can, this is a short answer but the cd is needed for initial install. First look on the hdd and see if you have the cab files for win98.

Glenn

garfld

ASKER

doesn't look like it. i searched for *.cab files and found
runhelp in c:\windows
mini - windows\system
iejava - win\system
rb000-rb0004 - win\sysbckup

win98 is operational and just fine on the laptop except we can't access my dialup account.

??

thx

betsy

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garfld

ASKER

figures. thanks.

garfld

ASKER

can i ask one more thing, glenn?

i got a copy of win98-se. is that enough to use w/o the original disks?

the disk says it will search the system for evidence of eligibility. it will find a legal authentic copy of win98.

garfld

ASKER

glenn: forget it, it doesn't work :)

hewittg

Look at this.

See if it will download and work.

Glenn
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q285/1/89.ASP

garfld

ASKER

thanks, will check it out.

i got hold of a win98 disk AND a win98-se disk. are there any files i should copy while the disk is in my possession? any restore utilities or anything? i don't want to do anything that will lose, risk or overwrite his data, but if there's anything else i should do to clean up his computer, i'd like to know. (i use win95 and don't know win98)

thanks!!

betsy

garfld

ASKER

ps: computers - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. we got the disks and i tried to connect. i figured once i got the error message, i would put in the win98 cd. well - it connected -isn't that bizarre.

this should have been the first part of the above letter :)