Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:27:47 03/25/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 18:02:13, Pete Galati wrote: >(...) >When I got this computer, I started asking around to see if I could use my Win98 >upgrade CD to downgrade ME into 98, but everyone's telling me that's not a >posibility. Very likely, because Microsoft has the strangest limitations in this respect: Recently, my Win98 on my other old computer totally crashed (after a change of the graphics card). I had to reinstall Windows. I have a Windows 98 update CD from the installation which crashed, and a full version of Win98 Second Edition from another computer which doesn't work anymore because of mainboard failure. So I thought, I have to reinstall anyway, why not use the Win98SE to have the more recent OS. But what happens? The Win98 SE tells me, I can't install from the Win98SE CD version - I should buy an *update version* instead!! Have you ever heard such a ridiculous story? I have a full version, but I am *punished* because some older Microsoft OS was installed previously on my computer, so cannot just install new, and must update. Of course, I cannot update with the full version CD. Finally, I reinstalled Windwos98 (first version) with the update CD again. Probably I could have solved this by completely formatting the C:\ drive, which I couldn't, because I have many installations of DOS chess programs on it, some with a limited number of installations available... Regards, M.Scheidl
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