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Old September 1st 08, 02:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Copy of Windows 98 Second Edition

Normanny wrote:

Hi, anyone can provide me a copy of the Windows 98 Second Edition.


Download and install a bit-torrent client. I've been using u-torrent
recently.

Then go to one of the bit-torrent directory sites and search for win-98
torrents.

Here's a few:

http://www.torrentreactor.net/search...&cid=2&x=0&y=0

Let's try this one:

http://dl.torrentreactor.net/downloa...+CD+%2B+CD+Key

Ok, after about 1 minute, there are 82 seeders. I'm connected to about
3-dozen of them, and I'm downloading it at the relatively slow rate of
30 to 35 k-bytes per second. The file is listed as 553 mb in size.
There are about 10 others that are also downloading it, and I'm feeding
some of them at about 5 kbps. At this rate, it's gonna take me 5 hours
20 minutes to download.

The torrent is a .UIF file, along with 2 text files (one of them is the
"serial", which I suspect is the product key). Ah yes, I've given that
a high-priority and I have that file now. It's a list of several dozen
product keys.

Not sure what to do with a .uif file. I'll search the net for that.

I'm also running peer-guardian, and it's blocked the ip 212.199.248.66
because it's identified that ip as belonging to "Golden Lines /
Anti-p2p". Perhaps that outfit monitors microsoft-related torrents -
but they won't see me.