Maybe VmWare Player? VirtualPC? Vista anyone?

I have a Windows 98 Virtual Machine in Virtual PC 2007. I want to go the other way. A program that runs on an actual Windows 98 system to capture file changes.

VMWare or VirtualPC are irrevelant. They are virtual machines. SKARDAVNELNATE is looking for a software virtualization product for Win98. I never even heard of software virtualization until Windows XP so I doubt such a thing exists for Windows 98. Neither Sandboxie nor Symantec/Altiris support Windows 98.

Spotted this today: http://www.cameyo.com/

Dunno if it works for 9x or not. Let me know if it does.

Wasn't there somekind of Java Virtual Machine released in 1999 or something? I remember seeing an old MS disk with that printed on it.

Maybe it's not what the OP needs, but who knows, right?
I'll go check my box of disks and report back...

Edit:Ok, found the disk.

The disk looks like the old Windows 98 oem silverish disks with the "Do Not Make Illegal Copies of This Disk" to the left and "For distribution..." yada yada on the right.
The name is "Microsoft virtual machine", part number is: X04-13223 and it appears the disk was released in 1999, indicating it likely to work on any Windows version made in that year or before (duh 😜), possibly for 9x also. I never even tried the disk, I'll go put it in my optical now and report back...

Edit2:geh, can't make heads or tales out of the content. It's just a setup.exe, an inf and lots of directories (apparently for different languages) with only MSJAVX86.EXE in the "EN" directory.
I'm not gonna try installing it on W7 though! 😜

Found this on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … em=260770842037

Apparently it will work for NT and Windows 98!

No idea if this is what the OP wants, but at least I tried to help, riight? ;D

uh no, that's not the same thing. That's strictly for JAVA. You could've suggested worse, like run Quake3 because it has a quake virtual machine code for the game logic.

I don't recall if Virtual PC 2003 works on 9x ... but one of the earlier VPCs do i think.

QEMU might even work. hope there's a good enough CPU for that

Guys read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_virtualization

leileilol wrote:

uh no, that's not the same thing. That's strictly for JAVA. You could've suggested worse, like run Quake3 because it has a quake virtual machine code for the game logic.

I don't recall if Virtual PC 2003 works on 9x ... but one of the earlier VPCs do i think.

QEMU might even work. hope there's a good enough CPU for that

Alright then, the name "virtual machine" is somewhat misleading then.
Thanks for pointing that out 😉

DosFreak wrote:

Dunno if it works for 9x or not. Let me know if it does.

The file expects a newer version of Windows.
Upgrade your Widows version.

But the purpose of that computer was to use this ver...
Upgrade your Widows version!!!
😒

Not sure what exactly you're after, but you could try TrackWinstall. It's not a sandbox-type program, but rather analyzes the system (dirs/files/registry, paths can be configured, by date and/or md5) before and after a program has been installed (or at whichever time you start it), and outputs a summary afterwards.

ADDiCT wrote:

Not sure what exactly you're after

With SWV I find it rather convenient to export a profile after installing a program and setting up any options within it. I can then deactivate the profile or delete it without going through uninstall. I can also import it again with everything configured. I don't have a strategy for using Sandboxie yet.

Accord to this: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/thinapp401_manual.pdf

Vmware Thinapp v4.0.1 runs on NT4 so might possibly work on 98. If not mabye an older version would work.

Vmware Thinapp isn't free tho.

https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=vmware-th … NxoK_ljDsecYvcg

Thinstall is the older version of Thinapp....mabye give that a shot:
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/03zwd8/thinstall_studio.htm