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Upgrade Without Previous Version
Upgrade Without Previous Version
If you're installing Win95 on a system without
a previous version of Windows installed, Win95
asks you to prove you have installed a previous
version of DOS or Windows. If you don't have
your old diskettes handy, here's how to get
around the dialog: Open Notepad and save a
document as WIN.CN_ (the final character is
an underline). Put the WIN.CN_ file on a
diskette - your boot diskette or Win95 Startup
disk will do. When you reach the point in the installation
where Win95 asks you to show it a previous version,
put in the diskette with the WIN.CN_ file on it.
The installation program will accept it as proof
of a previous version.
Here's another way I haven't tried
This I got from...um...the langalist, probably...
"Most Microsoft CD-ROM keys are very
simple. The first three digits before
the hyphen can be absolutely anything
you like. The sum of the remaining
seven digits must be a factor of 7. So
you can use: 111-1111111, 222-2222222 etc."
UPDATES:
"Windows 95, MS Plus! and MS Office 95 (and others that accept 3.7 keys)
will accept 111-1111111, and MS Office 97 accepts 1112-1111111.
Also, it seems that SUPPORT is available for such numbers. I managed
to install Office 97 Service Release 1 after entering such a code. :-)"
"This is the generic OEM key for Win95 (works on all versions I believe):
21995-OEM-0003121-88888
If there needs to be another digit in the 0003121 part, add a zero after the 3."
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