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Wed Jan 28 08:23:46 CST 2004
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:06:50 -0000, "Shane"
<arthursixpence@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>"default" <none@nonetnonenyet.net> wrote in message
>news:178t009t5c0htif0f25rmt595vks9pca3a@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:18:14 -0000, "Shane"
>> <arthursixpence@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >How is this Microsoft's fault?
>> >
>> >
>> >Shane
>> Well generally speaking it was microsux defrag utility that
>> ate my C drive in the first place (yes, I've never heard of that also
>> - and used it with no problem hundreds of times) , Windows98 was also
>> loaded on the D drive (how much more compliant can one get) and the
>> windows ME installation disk won't install because because it
>> "recognizes" the 98 OS that I'm trying to repair with my upgrade disk.
>
>98 and ME visible to each other would be asking for problems.
>
>>
>> Yes I did try copying the system files from D to C. DOS copy and
>> xcopy weren't working.
>>
>> The evil empire is too concerned with Billy's wealth with all this
>> compliancy checking.
>
>No argument there.
>
>>
>> Looks like I need to download and burn some warez to get around this
>> problem in the future. floppy discs have a short shelf life in warm
>> humid climates . . . BTW this was the second purchase of Windows 3.1
>> after encountering the problem once in the past. I should give Billy
>> another $50 to use the CD I paid for?
>
>I prefer the term 'abandonware'. DOSlife and Windos2000 are a couple of
>sites that spring to mind. You only need Win 3.x Disk 1 for the upgrade
>eligibility check.
>
>
>Shane
>
Many thanks for the pointer to the links - wish I'd stumbled onto them
earlier.
With nothing installed it was asking for 3 disks the last time I had
disks to feed it. I did manage to download a rared copy of the 8 disk
windows 3.11 installation set from a site in Asia and possibly a 98
oem install from the same site. (no telling what language)
Some kind soul also posted a couple of "work arounds" to the
compliancy check (namely add three junk files with the names the
installation disk is asking for) - and another somewhat more
complicated approach that uses a hex editor to bypass the product code
(apparently the product code and compliancy are in the same module and
both are bypassible with a few lines of hex code)
I get the feeling that Windows ME was abandonware from the day it was
released. The "integration" of media player and IE looks more like an
attempt to convince the courts that they could not be separated from
the OS.
Some poor fool was extolling the virtues of ME on the usenet based on
the fact that there was no service pack for it . . . it was "so good"
it didn't require one. Hah!
Last time I visited city hall to pay taxes I found they had switched
their databases to a DOS program.
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