Vista - RE: Howto question: I need to install Win98 on VPC2007

I recently brought a game but it unfortunately it wont work on XP when
looking for help files/forums on Google, I read about someone else who had
the same problem as I have with there copy of the game he said he used a
Virtual PC. I searched for virtual pc on Google and found Microsoft Virtual
PC 2007 after reading about what Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is I thought that
might help.

I download and installed Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 all was fine last time I
played this game was on my old PC which had Windows 98 as the OP so I thought
I would install Windows 98 onto the Virtual PC using the Windows 98 Disc I
got with my old PC.

But I had some problems when installing Windows 98 it brought things up
saying something like (can't find this file and can't find that file) I
clicked on skip this file it seemed to continue to install just fine. But
it’s not working fine every time I start the Virtual PC it says (Cannot find
a device file that may be needed to run Windows or Windows applications)
these are the 4 files it can’t find (vnetsup.vxd, vredir.vxd, dfs.vxd and
vnetbios.vxd) it says to press any key to continue which I do. After the
vnetbios.vxd it brings up a Windows Networking error message that reads
(Unable to load the dynamic link library, msnp32.dll, The system cannot find
the file specified, Some or all of the following feature is not available) I
click on the ok button and then it loads into Windows 98 screen and
everything seems fine.

I installed the game all was fine until I tried to play it the DARN Virtual
PC doesn’t detect my Graphics card, is there anyway to make the Virtual PC
detect all the hardware that my PC has? And to uninstall/reinstall Windows 98
properly so it will hopefully start up without any problems?

"N/A" <NA@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CE26125A-EA46-4FF9-8B70-129E6BE22598@xxxxxx
No: http://vpc.visualwin.com/ngfaq.aspx#8
Everything you need is here: http://www.essjae.com/VPC/default.htm


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

I got the VPC working fine now it runs Windows 98 perfectley and the game as
well, well it's working fine for now anyways. Thanks for responding Mark Rae.