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   Message 71 of 613   
   Robert E Starr JR to mark lewis   
   Password Errors   
   23 Aug 12 11:30:00   
   
   In a reply from mark lewis on 18:40 about Password Errors   
      
      
   ml> ml> ml> useless to even try a reload as the fixpacks and updates aren't    
   ml> ml> ml> even available any more... fsckin'  barstools :/   
      
   ml> ml>  RESJ> hmmm, last time I was on the win 89 update site, every update   
   ml> ml>  RESJ> was  still there    
      
   ml> ml> i've not been able to find them manually or with the w98 update   
   ml> ml> mechanism...   
      
   ml>  RESJ> hmmm, your going to make me turn on my win. 98 computer here to   
   ml>  RESJ> see if it there    
      
   ml> hahahaha... i looked and looked for several years before my w98 fell   
   ml> over...     
      
   ok   
      
   ml> the best i could find, but i didn't take, was an install ISO thing   
   ml> from russian  territory... or somewhere over there... it was supposedly all   
   ml> fixed up with all  the latest but i just didn't trust that there wasn't   
   ml> some embedded malware in  it...   
      
   ok   
      
   ml> ml> m$ used to also have a CD they sold with all of the updates on it and i   
   ml> ml> can't  find it any more either...   
      
   ml>  RESJ> I have a second editon cd-rom (not for sale)   
      
   ml> i've got several of those with valid licenses but they don't have fixpacks    
   ml> applied like w2kSP4 did...   
      
   ok   
      
   ml> either way, it tooks years longer than m$ wanted but i was finally forced   
   ml> to  leave w98 behind...    
      
   ok   
      
   ml> i firmly believe that this is why they also removed   
   ml> the  updates and the update CD they used to sell... their story was that it   
   ml> took too  much room on the servers that anyone with any real brains knows   
   ml> that was c4rp  ;)   
      
   ok   
      
   now you did it, going to have to power up my win. 89 computer to see if the    
   win.v98 update site is there, well I'll be, it gone, it going from the win. 98    
   to the win. 2000  (back and forth - like it can't make up it mind)   
      
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