HELP - Explain in Plain English please

[Basils57]

I've been given some instructions for a Win98 installation workaround, but cannot understand most of it. Is it possible to explain the following in 'basic layman's terms'?

"extract precopy1.cab pidgen.dll (enter)
debug pidgen.dll (enter)
-e 1ed7 (enter)
xxxx:1ED7 39. 8b (enter)
-e 1edf (enter)
xxxx:1EDF 39. 8b (enter)
-w (enter)
-q (enter)

For those with a hex editor, patch offset 1dd7h and 1ddfh from bytecode 39h to byttecode 8bh. Debug works fine (file is <64k so no segment adjustments are necessary) for patching small files like this one."


I have extracted and found precopy1.cab pidgen.dll;
Enter it where?
And what now please, as the rest is not understood at all?.
Apologies for the ignorance.

[bailey]

just exactly what sre you trying to work around from a normal install ?

[Basils57]

This is a workaround for a missing product key on win98 - supposedly.

[HAL9000]

Well... this is a touchy subject then. If you have a missing Win98 product key, you must deal with Microsoft as we cannot support this issue here as it falls under hacking and/or cracking.