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Skype vs. Net2Phone
The download page for Skype says that it works on win2000 and XP, it
might even say you must have one of those, but does that mean for sure that a program written for 2000/xp won't run on win98SE or WinME? Also Google Earth says that and so I didn't install it, but maybe I should have tried, if there is some chance it would run. Could it do any damage to install one of these where it wasn't designeed to go? If I can't do this, does anyone know if Net2Phone (which does work on winme and 98SE) can be used to call Skype commputers? |
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: The download page for Skype says that it works on win2000 and XP, it might even say you must have one of those, but does that mean for sure that a program written for 2000/xp won't run on win98SE or WinME? Also Google Earth says that and so I didn't install it, but maybe I should have tried, if there is some chance it would run. Could it do any damage to install one of these where it wasn't designeed to go? If I can't do this, does anyone know if Net2Phone (which does work on winme and 98SE) can be used to call Skype commputers? Skype doesn't call "computers", it calls any phone on the world directly. I believe Net2Phone, as the name implies, does the same. Net2Phone is 8 or more years old and it may or may not work at all - I have it but for some reason I never tried it. I really should - I still run 95B on my internet computer and can't use Skype either. You can't harm a computer by installing an incompatible program - it will either say your system is not compatible or it will just hang or do nothing. In the worst case, reboot and clean up whatever mess it may have made (new half-empty directories etc). Still, it is WISE to put it mildly to have a complete backup of a perfect C: drive setup done with an image program like Acronis True Image or Ghost. No matter WHAT happens, 5 minutes later you're back in business. |
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"mm" wrote in message
... The download page for Skype says that it works on win2000 and XP, it might even say you must have one of those, but does that mean for sure that a program written for 2000/xp won't run on win98SE or WinME? No: it means (a) the manufacturer claims it will work with some OSs and not with others; (b) it does not mean the product is guaranteed not too run under Win98; it means it will very probably not run under Win98. Once in a while an app runs under an OS different from what the maker claims on the box. Also Google Earth says that and so I didn't install it, but maybe I should have tried, if there is some chance it would run. Could it do any damage to install one of these where it wasn't designeed to go? The likeliest source of damage is overwriting on your hard drive a system file with the same name in the app's instal procedure. Afterwards your other apps that call this file may find it different and therefore perhaps may not work. If I can't do this, does anyone know if Net2Phone (which does work on winme and 98SE) can be used to call Skype commputers? Voice phone calls are indifferent to the system that creates and connects them. (Your WinME PC can be connected to a Commodore 64 and the data does not care how either made the connection.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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"thanatoid" wrote in message ... mm wrote in : The download page for Skype says that it works on win2000 and XP, it might even say you must have one of those, but does that mean for sure that a program written for 2000/xp won't run on win98SE or WinME? Also Google Earth says that and so I didn't install it, but maybe I should have tried, if there is some chance it would run. Could it do any damage to install one of these where it wasn't designeed to go? If I can't do this, does anyone know if Net2Phone (which does work on winme and 98SE) can be used to call Skype commputers? Skype doesn't call "computers", it calls any phone on the world directly. I believe Net2Phone, as the name implies, does the same. Net2Phone is 8 or more years old and it may or may not work at all - I have it but for some reason I never tried it. I really should - I still run 95B on my internet computer and can't use Skype either. You can't harm a computer by installing an incompatible program - it will either say your system is not compatible or it will just hang or do nothing. In the worst case, reboot and clean up whatever mess it may have made (new half-empty directories etc). Still, it is WISE to put it mildly to have a complete backup of a perfect C: drive setup done with an image program like Acronis True Image or Ghost. No matter WHAT happens, 5 minutes later you're back in business. I run Skype on my Win98SE. I don't use the Video features so I cannot attest to that, but the phone part works great. |
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Buffalo, do you happen to have their installer software for 98 that you
could email? ___ "Buffalo" wrote in message . .. "thanatoid" wrote in message ... mm wrote in : The download page for Skype says that it works on win2000 and XP, it might even say you must have one of those, but does that mean for sure that a program written for 2000/xp won't run on win98SE or WinME? Also Google Earth says that and so I didn't install it, but maybe I should have tried, if there is some chance it would run. Could it do any damage to install one of these where it wasn't designeed to go? If I can't do this, does anyone know if Net2Phone (which does work on winme and 98SE) can be used to call Skype commputers? Skype doesn't call "computers", it calls any phone on the world directly. I believe Net2Phone, as the name implies, does the same. Net2Phone is 8 or more years old and it may or may not work at all - I have it but for some reason I never tried it. I really should - I still run 95B on my internet computer and can't use Skype either. You can't harm a computer by installing an incompatible program - it will either say your system is not compatible or it will just hang or do nothing. In the worst case, reboot and clean up whatever mess it may have made (new half-empty directories etc). Still, it is WISE to put it mildly to have a complete backup of a perfect C: drive setup done with an image program like Acronis True Image or Ghost. No matter WHAT happens, 5 minutes later you're back in business. I run Skype on my Win98SE. I don't use the Video features so I cannot attest to that, but the phone part works great. |
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:21:19 -0600, "none"
put finger to keyboard and composed: Buffalo, do you happen to have their installer software for 98 that you could email? http://oldapps.com/skype.htm - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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"Buffalo" wrote in
: I run Skype on my Win98SE. I don't use the Video features so I cannot attest to that, but the phone part works great. I thought it was Win2000 and up... Anyway, I have 98SE Lite on my other computer but it doesn't even have a modem let alone anything better. This machine is 95B and will remain so until it is dead beyond resuscitation. |
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Franc Zabkar wrote in
news On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:21:19 -0600, "none" put finger to keyboard and composed: Buffalo, do you happen to have their installer software for 98 that you could email? http://oldapps.com/skype.htm - Franc Zabkar Franc, you are amazing. I knew about oldversion.com but this one - OBVIOUS AS HECK as the name is - was unknown to me... Haven't checked it out yet but I'm sure it's full of goodies! |
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On 30 Nov 2007 07:27:20 GMT, thanatoid
wrote: "Buffalo" wrote in : I run Skype on my Win98SE. I don't use the Video features so I cannot attest to that, but the phone part works great. I thought it was Win2000 and up... Anyway, I have 98SE Lite on my other computer but it doesn't even have a modem let alone anything better. This machine is 95B and will remain so until it is dead beyond resuscitation. Given your name, are you good or not good at resuscitation? |
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:10:51 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
wrote: "mm" wrote in message .. . The download page for Skype says that it works on win2000 and XP, it might even say you must have one of those, but does that mean for sure that a program written for 2000/xp won't run on win98SE or WinME? No: it means (a) the manufacturer claims it will work with some OSs and not with others; (b) it does not mean the product is guaranteed not too run under Win98; it means it will very probably not run under Win98. Once in a while an app runs under an OS different from what the maker claims on the box. Also Google Earth says that and so I didn't install it, but maybe I should have tried, if there is some chance it would run. Could it do any damage to install one of these where it wasn't designeed to go? The likeliest source of damage is overwriting on your hard drive a system file with the same name in the app's instal procedure. Afterwards your other apps that call this file may find it different and therefore perhaps may not work. That's exactly what I was worried about. When I've used SFC, I think it was, system file checker, I sometimes see files whose date seems older than it should be. That's a different problem, but it makes me think I installed old software and it installed a dll or something that was older than the one that was there. Or some other similar problem. For example, I'm getting a lot of errors with some module whose name I don't remember, msg32 or something like that (that gives "Not responding" in the cntl-alt-delete box, and I keep thinking that some executable is too old or too new for the environment I have. WinME laid over win98SE. If I can't do this, does anyone know if Net2Phone (which does work on winme and 98SE) can be used to call Skype commputers? Voice phone calls are indifferent to the system that creates and connects them. (Your WinME PC can be connected to a Commodore 64 and the data does not care how either made the connection.) Good to know. Thanks. If I stay here much longer, maybe I should encourage my friends back in the US to install either Skype or Net2phone and then talk to me. This typing is taking a lot of time, and I'm fairly fast. |
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