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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
I would like to acquire as many as 10 or more Microsoft 98 Second Edition
full and legal edition retail cds with product keys. How can I legally meet this demand to help clients dual boot with 98 Second Edition and XP Professional? |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
"ArtWilder" wrote:
I would like to acquire as many as 10 or more Microsoft 98 Second Edition full and legal edition retail cds with product keys. How can I legally meet this demand to help clients dual boot with 98 Second Edition and XP Professional? Buy them. Look on eBay or a large computer retailer. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
I've never understood why anyone would need dual booting capability, but I
guess there are some who feel that they need to hang onto the old a while longer when they go to the new. I've upgraded at least 20 PCs (to XP Home Edition and XP Pro) for myself, relatives, and friends and never have had a need to keep W98 yet. Anyway, the most likely source for W98SE is EBay. "ArtWilder" wrote in message ... I would like to acquire as many as 10 or more Microsoft 98 Second Edition full and legal edition retail cds with product keys. How can I legally meet this demand to help clients dual boot with 98 Second Edition and XP Professional? |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
Dual boots' good for at least the following reason. Some clients of mine
want to move 'forward' and "upgrade," to the newest Windows platform without "being thrown in at the deep end," by losing their current Windows, apps. and setup installation in "one fell swoop," and also do not want to take the slightest risk with their current W98 /apps. installation by upgrading it. Upgrading a current W98/se installation is not an attractive proposition to many people, i.e. they don't want to take the slightest chance of upsetting what they've got, and would prefer to prepare to upgrade in a gradual fashion. When I give them the option of installing XP onto a different drive, and explain that their W98 platform will be untouched, bar a DOS dual-boot screen at startup, and that they'll be able to install their apps. onto XP as and when they've got the time, and that OE can be tweaked to use a common message store, and that when they're happy with XP and perhaps comes a time when they find that they're never using W98 anymore they can switch off the dual boot screen etc.....that's the one they want :-) regards, Richard "Papa" wrote in message ... I've never understood why anyone would need dual booting capability, but I guess there are some who feel that they need to hang onto the old a while longer when they go to the new. I've upgraded at least 20 PCs (to XP Home Edition and XP Pro) for myself, relatives, and friends and never have had a need to keep W98 yet. Anyway, the most likely source for W98SE is EBay. "ArtWilder" wrote in message ... I would like to acquire as many as 10 or more Microsoft 98 Second Edition full and legal edition retail cds with product keys. How can I legally meet this demand to help clients dual boot with 98 Second Edition and XP Professional? |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
Hi:
I completely understand. Unfortunately, many of my friends and relatives who want me to upgrade their computers to XP have such messed up systems that only a clean install will do. The registry is usually flawed, there are almost always viruses and spyware present, and hardly any files are put into meaningfully-named folders. To add even more grief, rarely have any important files been backed up. So I usually am forced to do a clean install of the operating system (including removing all partitions, creating a fresh partition, and reformatting), download/install AV and antispyware software, and give them a briefing on how to use them - which is soon forgotten. For example, I recently cleaned up my daughters computer. In the process I found out that she had not run the AV or antispyware software since last January, even though she had been briefed to run them frequently and to keep them updated. Sigh! Then I have to wonder how your customers manage to cope with the added complexity of a dual OS. Hopefully they are not as inept as some of my acquaintenances. Regards. "RJK" wrote in message ... Dual boots' good for at least the following reason. Some clients of mine want to move 'forward' and "upgrade," to the newest Windows platform without "being thrown in at the deep end," by losing their current Windows, apps. and setup installation in "one fell swoop," and also do not want to take the slightest risk with their current W98 /apps. installation by upgrading it. Upgrading a current W98/se installation is not an attractive proposition to many people, i.e. they don't want to take the slightest chance of upsetting what they've got, and would prefer to prepare to upgrade in a gradual fashion. When I give them the option of installing XP onto a different drive, and explain that their W98 platform will be untouched, bar a DOS dual-boot screen at startup, and that they'll be able to install their apps. onto XP as and when they've got the time, and that OE can be tweaked to use a common message store, and that when they're happy with XP and perhaps comes a time when they find that they're never using W98 anymore they can switch off the dual boot screen etc.....that's the one they want :-) regards, Richard "Papa" wrote in message ... I've never understood why anyone would need dual booting capability, but I guess there are some who feel that they need to hang onto the old a while longer when they go to the new. I've upgraded at least 20 PCs (to XP Home Edition and XP Pro) for myself, relatives, and friends and never have had a need to keep W98 yet. Anyway, the most likely source for W98SE is EBay. "ArtWilder" wrote in message ... I would like to acquire as many as 10 or more Microsoft 98 Second Edition full and legal edition retail cds with product keys. How can I legally meet this demand to help clients dual boot with 98 Second Edition and XP Professional? |
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Hi Papa
Your're completley right of course, I'd briefly overlooked that side of things when I blurted out my post ! :-) , and I temporarily forgot those lovely machines where several years worth of magazine demo cd's have been shoved in, programs have been ripped out without at least trying the "uninstall" for them, and then there must have been an auto or custom install of Norton where the installee obviously have felt obliged to say yes to everything, including a secondary recycle bin which didn't help things very much either ! :-) regards, Richard Wyh si ti tahtt no a compure keybaord, "your" always comes out as "you" ,(even though there is not a weak 'r' pm yjr lrunpstf ...oops, i moved to the left a little, ...even though there is not a weak or faulty 'r' on the keyboard and why it it that some words come out the wrong way around, and other letters are often completely missing ? Somebody once suggested to me that it's because I'm not hitting the keys in the correct order but, I didn't believe them one little bit ! I suspect that there arre hidden routines in Windows 98 that monitors ones typing ability and should ones' typing improve slightly, over a period of days or weeks, it starts doing those "missing letters" and "jumbled and/or missing letters" routines on purpose, just to be nasty. :-) vbg+smugness "Papa" wrote in message ... Hi: I completely understand. Unfortunately, many of my friends and relatives who want me to upgrade their computers to XP have such messed up systems that only a clean install will do. The registry is usually flawed, there are almost always viruses and spyware present, and hardly any files are put into meaningfully-named folders. To add even more grief, rarely have any important files been backed up. So I usually am forced to do a clean install of the operating system (including removing all partitions, creating a fresh partition, and reformatting), download/install AV and antispyware software, and give them a briefing on how to use them - which is soon forgotten. For example, I recently cleaned up my daughters computer. In the process I found out that she had not run the AV or antispyware software since last January, even though she had been briefed to run them frequently and to keep them updated. Sigh! Then I have to wonder how your customers manage to cope with the added complexity of a dual OS. Hopefully they are not as inept as some of my acquaintenances. Regards. "RJK" wrote in message ... Dual boots' good for at least the following reason. Some clients of mine want to move 'forward' and "upgrade," to the newest Windows platform without "being thrown in at the deep end," by losing their current Windows, apps. and setup installation in "one fell swoop," and also do not want to take the slightest risk with their current W98 /apps. installation by upgrading it. Upgrading a current W98/se installation is not an attractive proposition to many people, i.e. they don't want to take the slightest chance of upsetting what they've got, and would prefer to prepare to upgrade in a gradual fashion. When I give them the option of installing XP onto a different drive, and explain that their W98 platform will be untouched, bar a DOS dual-boot screen at startup, and that they'll be able to install their apps. onto XP as and when they've got the time, and that OE can be tweaked to use a common message store, and that when they're happy with XP and perhaps comes a time when they find that they're never using W98 anymore they can switch off the dual boot screen etc.....that's the one they want :-) regards, Richard "Papa" wrote in message ... I've never understood why anyone would need dual booting capability, but I guess there are some who feel that they need to hang onto the old a while longer when they go to the new. I've upgraded at least 20 PCs (to XP Home Edition and XP Pro) for myself, relatives, and friends and never have had a need to keep W98 yet. Anyway, the most likely source for W98SE is EBay. "ArtWilder" wrote in message ... I would like to acquire as many as 10 or more Microsoft 98 Second Edition full and legal edition retail cds with product keys. How can I legally meet this demand to help clients dual boot with 98 Second Edition and XP Professional? |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
| Somebody once suggested to me that it's because I'm not hitting
the keys | in the correct order but, I didn't believe them one little bit ! I suspect | that there arre hidden routines in Windows 98 that monitors ones typing | ability and should ones' typing improve slightly, over a period of days or | weeks, it starts doing those "missing letters" and "jumbled and/or missing | letters" routines on purpose, just to be nasty. :-) vbg+smugness There isn't any program doing it. It's a creature in there that gobbles letters, sometimes regurgitating them elsewhere! Even whole words! I SAW IT ONCE, a little, purple thing, big, big teeth! Don't try to grab at it! -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "RJK" wrote in message ... ....snip |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
If this is what long-term exposure to Windows 9x does to you I'll take my
chances with XP, thank you very much. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "PCR" wrote in message ... There isn't any program doing it. It's a creature in there that gobbles letters, sometimes regurgitating them elsewhere! Even whole words! I SAW IT ONCE, a little, purple thing, big, big teeth! Don't try to grab at it! |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
www.pricewatch.com is a good place to start. Many companies sell
a license pack alone, or a license with CD media. You only need one media. I don't know if all companies sell legal versions. "Richard G. Harper" wrote in message ... If this is what long-term exposure to Windows 9x does to you I'll take my chances with XP, thank you very much. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "PCR" wrote in message ... There isn't any program doing it. It's a creature in there that gobbles letters, sometimes regurgitating them elsewhere! Even whole words! I SAW IT ONCE, a little, purple thing, big, big teeth! Don't try to grab at it! |
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Easy Way to Acquire 98SE?
I see the bare license & COA for $23 (you need 9 of these)
I see the license, COA & CD for $77 (you need one if you don't already have the CD) "BeamGuy" wrote in message news:... www.pricewatch.com is a good place to start. Many companies sell a license pack alone, or a license with CD media. You only need one media. I don't know if all companies sell legal versions. "Richard G. Harper" wrote in message ... If this is what long-term exposure to Windows 9x does to you I'll take my chances with XP, thank you very much. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "PCR" wrote in message ... There isn't any program doing it. It's a creature in there that gobbles letters, sometimes regurgitating them elsewhere! Even whole words! I SAW IT ONCE, a little, purple thing, big, big teeth! Don't try to grab at it! |
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