Three machines on network are Win98SE workstations. Of these three, the OS was built from scratch on one, imaged with Drive Image, and placed on the other two (we have licenses for all three). A Win98SE install CD for systems without windows was used on new hard drives. Now the one machine on which the OS was first built is showing in SysInfo that it is Win98 Gold 4.10.1998. The other “children” machines still show Win98SE, 4.10.2222. Now on that machine which is reporting 4.10.1998, I cannot install software which requires SE, such as Roxio Easy CD Creator 6. Many other programs which require SE have previously been loaded on this machine and run fine, and usb support continues fine as always. Windows Updates have been run successfully on this machine monthly for two years.
Any thoughts on how the reported OS got changed? Can I change the reported OS in registry and get SE requisite programs to install? I do not want to rebuild this machine from scratch — I have two years of not only Windows updates but also program and driver updates for many many many software titles and hardware items.
I have the MS Win98 SE update CD that was used on a different machine long ago. Is there a way to use that without requiring reload of lots of updates afterwards?
Thanks for the help.