Can't Install MicrSoft Bookshelf 94

[PSRumbagh]

I have an old desktop PC (Pentium II, 300 MHz, circa 1997) running Win98
Second Edition with a Diamond Viper V550 video card. When I try to install
MicroSoft "Bookshelf 94" I immediately get an error message that Bookshelf 94
needs VGA or better and the installation stops with no apparent work around.
The Viper V550 is presently set to 800 x 600 pixels, 32 bit color. Would
"lowering" the settings to VGA values help? How to proceed with the
Bookshelf 94 installation? This computer is being given to a disabled friend
who has no computer experience.

 

[philo]

"PSRumbagh" <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3637B3AC-8619-41F5-A93B-F86707190B6D@microsoft.com...
> I have an old desktop PC (Pentium II, 300 MHz, circa 1997) running Win98
> Second Edition with a Diamond Viper V550 video card. When I try to
install
> MicroSoft "Bookshelf 94" I immediately get an error message that Bookshelf
94
> needs VGA or better and the installation stops with no apparent work
around.
> The Viper V550 is presently set to 800 x 600 pixels, 32 bit color. Would
> "lowering" the settings to VGA values help? How to proceed with the
> Bookshelf 94 installation? This computer is being given to a disabled
friend
> who has no computer experience.


Some very old apps check for 256 colors.
When they were written, 32bit color was unheard of...so yes you may actually
want to* lower* the colors

or look for a newer version of that application

 

[Franc Zabkar]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:10:01 -0700, PSRumbagh
<PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and
composed:

>I have an old desktop PC (Pentium II, 300 MHz, circa 1997) running Win98
>Second Edition with a Diamond Viper V550 video card. When I try to install
>MicroSoft "Bookshelf 94" I immediately get an error message that Bookshelf 94
>needs VGA or better and the installation stops with no apparent work around.
>The Viper V550 is presently set to 800 x 600 pixels, 32 bit color. Would
>"lowering" the settings to VGA values help? How to proceed with the
>Bookshelf 94 installation? This computer is being given to a disabled friend
>who has no computer experience.

I get the same error when I switch to 32-bit colour, but 16-bit colour
installs OK, except that the installer complains that I have only 4MB
of RAM for one of the components (sorry, I forget which one), which
then prevents this component from installing.

- Franc Zabkar
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