No More Tax Software for Win 98/ME

On Oct 8, 7:18*am, Greg wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:31:43 -0700, J V wrote:
Tim Slattery wrote in
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"webster72n" wrote:

The software's installation routine might detect the OS and
refuse to install on Win98 or ME, but that's not likely.
The OS would not reject an application.

I have tried installing ostensibly non-Win98 programs over
the years, sometimes just to see if they would work and
sometimes because I didn't know they were XP only. *For me,
they have always failed, often with a *message that did not
identify the problem.

That happened to me with Corel Draw 12, which dates from
2003. *I wondered what it did that made it XP only. *If it
only crashed ocassionally, that might not bad. However, I
never found any way to get around the block on the install
process.

There is a program that may or may not let it work on windows 98se.
It called KernelEx-4.0-Final2 *

However, it is open source and some people claim if you use that, *it
like running windows xp original without any updates. * *However, *I
think it more like running windows xp sp2 without any further updates.
JMO

Some programs work and other programs don't.

I don't know if it safe to use firefox 3.5.3 and KernelEx on secure
sites or not. * *

Greg

I just use the cheapest WinXP Pro I could find, install it, run stuff,
and then let the license expire, until I need it again. I just
reserve about 5GB on the disk for it.