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re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC
Friday, April 6, 2007 at 12:25 pm
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Posted by Myst (3 messages posted)


I reinstallled Windows98SE this weekend. When I go to updates, I am given a link to updates for mac's with windows installed. I have an AMD mainboard. It diffenitely is not a macintosh. What do I do now? Myst


On Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 10:59 pm, Chris wrote:
>So I reinstalled win98 and got online with IE 4.0, now I know I need to update it
>so I go to Microsoft.com. I try and get to the download section to get a new ver.
>of IE, but everything is all screwed up. Some text is super small and some pages
>won't load at all.
>I search around on the net for another browser but the site either locks me up or
>when I do actually download a browser such as IE5 and try and install it I get the
>message that "the download location is damaged, please clear your browser cache".
>I delete
>temporary internet files and try again and it says the same thing. I think maybe
>another brower might let me access the microsoft site so I can update 98, I download
>and install netscape communicator which doesn't crash as much but still won't let
>me use
>the microsoft site. On other sites some of the text turns into a bunch of square
>when I first open the page and text is overlapping and looking weird.
>
>So, what should I be trying to do to fix these problems.
>
>Thanks


Written in response to:
Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 10:59 pm)

Responses to this message:
*Read ALL the post in a thread BEFORE posting to that thread (gewg_: Friday, April 6, 2007 at 12:37 pm)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC (Steve: Friday, April 6, 2007 at 12:42 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Wed, Apr 4, 2007, 10:59 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (gewg_: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 1:10 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 6:53 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (jack hall: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 8:51 am)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Steve: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 11:10 am)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 1:37 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Steve: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 6:31 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (soporific: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 9:53 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC (Myst: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:25 pm)
-Read ALL the post in a thread BEFORE posting to that thread (gewg_: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:37 pm)
*re: Read ALL the post in a thread BEFORE posting to that thread (Myst: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 1:06 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC (Steve: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:42 pm)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC (Myst: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 1:00 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (dhm: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 4:49 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Keith Stanier: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 5:45 pm)
-Internet Exploder 6 is on your old AOL CDs (gewg_: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 6:09 pm)
*IE6 SP1 on most ISP CD's (DNA: Sat, Apr 7, 2007, 3:43 pm)
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