Windows 98 Nightmare... HELP!!!

[jmc1712]

Ok had a friend of mine run the instal on his system which he is running Win 98SE with no service pack and install worked fine except when he ran the exe file it just said unexpected error with no error number.

Any ideas why this is happening? These are the OS'es I have installed program on with no problems

Win 2000 with SP2 & SP4
XP Home SP2
XP Pro

So why is Win 98 giving me such a hard time?

John

[jmc1712]

Ok had a friend of mine run the instal on his system which he is running Win 98SE with no service pack and install worked fine except when he ran the exe file it just said unexpected error with no error number.

Any ideas why this is happening? These are the OS'es I have installed program on with no problems

Win 2000 with SP2 & SP4
XP Home SP2
XP Pro

So why is Win 98 giving me such a hard time?

John

Ok I had my friend install a different program that uses same files as program giving unexpected error and it installed and worked fine. No I am really confused. Wondering if its an API issue?

Thanks

JOhn

[randem]

jmc1712,

You may have several things going on here.

1) Install the Automatic OS Updater to get your OS up to date for your program to install correctly. This will solve most problems.

2) Using files from your system folder may also cause problems. Expecially if you are taking a XP specific file and atempting to get 98 to run with it. You may need to have several version of specific files and only install them as per OS.

3) Read Helpful Information about installers.

Also Upgrade to ********** 4.0.2

[si_the_geek]

Wondering if its an API issue?

It's possible, usually API's are added for each new version of windows (lots were added to Win2000 compared with Win98). It all depends which ones you've used.

Check out the API link in my sig for a site that says which Windows version is required for each API.