Windows 98 & ME - No product key

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have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key. don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

Do a Google and you find lots of them or look back in this forum
"Marie" wrote in message
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have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key. don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

excuse my ignorance...but I would have to do this from another computer since
I can't get on my desktop. Do you mean I would be able to use just any
generic key??

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Do a Google and you find lots of them or look back in this forum
"Marie" wrote in message
...
have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key. don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Do a Google and you find lots of them or look back in this forum
"Marie" wrote in message
...
have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key. don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

excuse my ignorance...but I can't get on my desktop - can I do this from my laptop and use a generic product key???

Any windows '98 key you can find will do and to make it easy I'll hand you
the address :)
http://www.psico.univ.trieste.it/pub...8_serials.html
Good luck and Google more, it's worth it :)

"Marie" wrote in message
...
excuse my ignorance...but I would have to do this from another computer
since
I can't get on my desktop. Do you mean I would be able to use just any
generic key??

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Do a Google and you find lots of them or look back in this forum
"Marie" wrote in message
...
have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key.
don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

Thank you soooo much...I found one that worked but now I keep getting an
error report and it shuts me down. Start up screen doesn't come up either.
Any good words of advice on this one?

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Any windows '98 key you can find will do and to make it easy I'll hand you
the address :)
http://www.psico.univ.trieste.it/pub...8_serials.html
Good luck and Google more, it's worth it :)

"Marie" wrote in message
...
excuse my ignorance...but I would have to do this from another computer
since
I can't get on my desktop. Do you mean I would be able to use just any
generic key??

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Do a Google and you find lots of them or look back in this forum
"Marie" wrote in message
...
have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key.
don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

Geez man, smell the coffee. You are using an illegal version of Windows
otherwise you'd not have had to find a product key as you'd have already had
one. Then you come asking for help because said illegal version doesn't work
properly. Now how the hell we supposed to know what you've actually
installed, where it came from and for that matter how it may have been
hacked in some way.

And you are doing this on a microsoft newsgroup maintained by the same
people you're ripping off!!!!

Go out and buy a legit product as clearly you need help and it comes with
some.

"Marie" wrote in message
...
Thank you soooo much...I found one that worked but now I keep getting an
error report and it shuts me down. Start up screen doesn't come up
either.
Any good words of advice on this one?

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Any windows '98 key you can find will do and to make it easy I'll hand
you
the address :)
http://www.psico.univ.trieste.it/pub...8_serials.html
Good luck and Google more, it's worth it :)

"Marie" wrote in message
...
excuse my ignorance...but I would have to do this from another
computer
since
I can't get on my desktop. Do you mean I would be able to use just
any
generic key??

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Do a Google and you find lots of them or look back in this forum
"Marie" wrote in message
...
have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key.
don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:31:02 -0800, Marie
wrote:

Thank you soooo much...I found one that worked but now I keep getting an
error report and it shuts me down. Start up screen doesn't come up either.
Any good words of advice on this one?

What's the error report and when do you get it? More info would
help. Has your disk been wiped clean?

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

Come on pjp, ten year old technology and if you did it right, it has been
paid for in '98 or '99 and you want to keep getting money for it? I have
lots of computers that came with win'98, should I have send money to MS
every time I buy a $5 computer at a garage sale? A fair share, say 1%, would
make you happy? And then you send me a brand new registration key, manual
and CD?. How much do you ask for a key of win3.11, the ten floppy version?
Yep I'm still running that too on an old IBM 95ak. I know, museum stuff, but
if you claim I have to buy the key for a fair price just tell me where :)
(Oops they came without key, how do we solve this?) And does Billy still pay
the guys whose idea's he used to get the whole thing going from start? A
fair share? And this from the makers of Vista ?

"pjp" wrote in message
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Geez man, smell the coffee. You are using an illegal version of Windows
otherwise you'd not have had to find a product key as you'd have already
had
one. Then you come asking for help because said illegal version doesn't
work
properly. Now how the hell we supposed to know what you've actually
installed, where it came from and for that matter how it may have been
hacked in some way.

And you are doing this on a microsoft newsgroup maintained by the same
people you're ripping off!!!!

Go out and buy a legit product as clearly you need help and it comes with
some.

"Marie" wrote in message
...
Thank you soooo much...I found one that worked but now I keep getting an
error report and it shuts me down. Start up screen doesn't come up
either.
Any good words of advice on this one?

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Any windows '98 key you can find will do and to make it easy I'll hand
you
the address :)
http://www.psico.univ.trieste.it/pub...8_serials.html
Good luck and Google more, it's worth it :)

"Marie" wrote in message
...
excuse my ignorance...but I would have to do this from another
computer
since
I can't get on my desktop. Do you mean I would be able to use just
any
generic key??

"win98 fan :)" wrote:

Do a Google and you find lots of them or look back in this forum
"Marie" wrote in message
...
have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key.
don't
have one and don't know how to bypass this problem

You probably got that setup screen because the system detected some sort of
problem and initiated a re-installation procedure, using the installation
files stored on disk. You need to identify what sort of error occurred and
whether there are still problems with the machine.

Is yours a brand name PC, such as Dell? If so, the manufacturer will have
diagnostic software available for download, or it may already be installed
on your disk, and there will be a procedure for running diagnostics to
confirm that the machine is still operating properly. If it's old enough
to be running W98 it's probably old enough to be prone to hardware problems.

The other possibility is that you somehow started the machine with a W98
installation CD in the drive. In that case you have replaced your
installation of W98 with a different version, and it is likely that not all
of the correct drivers were installed. But as Bill says, we need more
details about the error, including the point in the startup process where it
occurs and the exact wording of the message, before it's possible to take a
guess at what's happening.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Marie" wrote in message
...
Thank you soooo much...I found one that worked but now I keep getting an
error report and it shuts me down. Start up screen doesn't come up
either.
Any good words of advice on this one?