Unable to run Avast 4.x Home on W98 unit

[nightshade]

@mkis post:20

Okay I have just downloaded. Thank you very much.

Let us know if it works for you, it certainly works for me.

;D

[mkis]

Oh drat. My VMC lite is not compatible with Win 98.

I can still use the PC for a courtesy service - I remember now that I did run Win 98 with avast in a courtesy computer a while ago. For a few different people. And I recall them being satisfied about the setup. I think a couple of them were on dial-up. Anyway, what I might do is find a student with a hookup through hostel or home network to run a PC for me - they will have to stay with 98, have to run avast, won’t have to pay for PC or for maintenance, or for tuition. I think good compromise. For now, I am left with 3.5GB out of 4GB capacity. Not bad. I will probably look to a 10 or 20GB HDD for this computer. Enough for small Office 2000 suite, and storage for data and picture files (schoolwork) .

Let us know if it works for you,

I noticed that install was not totally straight-forward, and will do final tasks in next few days when I tidy up the files and folders. A few drivers missed so I have bits and pieces here and there. I set time aside this week and will report back here. Still to load avast. But I am quite impressed with the outcome. I haven't loaded 98 for a while. Right now, however, I had better get onto a few other things, before I get sidetracked.

Thanks for help Mike and nightshade.

[mkis]

Let us know if it works for you, it certainly works for me.

Hey I couldn’t help myself. I was thinking bout it most of the day.
So I just went and loaded the USB2 Universal driver, and you might guess it was an absolute cracker.
Down this part of the world, that means its something pretty special. So many thanks. My computer is now complete. I’ll give it a crank up every now and then, until I find somewhere it can get some internet time in. It certainly works for me as well.

[nightshade]

@mkis post:23

Let us know if it works for you, it certainly works for me.

Hey I couldn’t help myself. I was thinking bout it most of the day.
So I just went and loaded the USB2 Universal driver, and you might guess it was an absolute cracker.
Down this part of the world, that means its something pretty special. So many thanks. My computer is now complete. I’ll give it a crank up every now and then, until I find somewhere it can get some internet time in. It certainly works for me as well.

Glad to know we have been a help to you. ;D

[system]

@mkis post:6

System restore was performed to earliest point which was 09/05/2002 for some unknown reason to make matters worse and W98 updates were performed before attempting to update Avast.

System Restore was not introduced until Win ME. You seem to have initiated a reinstall of the earlier Win95 that is probaby updating service releases up to 95 OSR, but because no USB, probably not up to OSR2. If upgrade to Win 98, then should support USB.

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W98 registry is backed up each day as rb*.cab and stored in \sysbackup directory for a total of 5 days. Restore is accomplished by booting to DOS and running scanreg command. This unit had to be in W989 directory to execute the scanreg command but a system restore did occur.

The box has a pentium processor [ can’t remember exactly what and am not at the location] and 63 mb ram which is odd number but complicated by onboard cache.