On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:10:51 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
<d.phillipsonSPAMBLOCK@rogers.com> wrote:
>"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.coim> wrote in message
>news:rs2uk3d7g5olgldpaonqp08k08bfji0pfo@4ax.com...
>> 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.