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First post, by Cobra!

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Hey,

I'm trying to get .NET 2.0 installed on my Windows 98 PC to get some programs working (Such as Circus Pals and Protonweb Browser).

I've downloaded dotnet9x and the installer eventually completed without any errors (after a few attempts of it giving me errors that programs have "performed an illegal operation" or just say they've stopped working), I get the following when I try to run either application specified.

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Edit: The error Circus Pals gives is slightly different. It seems to point to different locations. Not sure if this means anything.

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I tried using the one downloaded from the Protonweb page but installer gives me then when I try it.

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ScanDisk did return errors and fixed them, but it didn't fix the above.

What do I do?

If it here's the contents of the "My Computer" properties. For some reason it's showing Windows ME as the OS, but it's Windows 98SE with KernelEx and the Unofficial Service Pack 3.

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Last edited by Cobra! on 2026-05-19, 22:33. Edited 3 times in total.

Reply 1 of 4, by Jo22

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Hi, seems to be Windows NT related? Maybe something Unicode?

https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows … 2/api/index.htm

Was KernelEx with unicows.dll installed? It's the Unicode library for Windows 9x.
Another useful DLL is gdiplus.dll, which helps running GDI+ enabled Win32 applications (XP programs started to use GDI+ I think).

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Reply 3 of 4, by Cobra!

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Jo22 wrote on Yesterday, 15:33:

Was KernelEx with unicows.dll installed? It's the Unicode library for Windows 9x.
Another useful DLL is gdiplus.dll, which helps running GDI+ enabled Win32 applications (XP programs started to use GDI+ I think).

I honestly don't know. I bought this PC with it all pre-installed. Is there a way to check? Can you install them individually?

Tiido wrote on Yesterday, 16:20:

KernelEx must be disabled for any .NET program, or they will fail to start.

Sadly disabling didn't fix it here 🙁

Reply 4 of 4, by Jo22

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I honestly don't know. I bought this PC with it all pre-installed. Is there a way to check? Can you install them individually?

Hi! Oh, okay. I assume everything is already there then.
If not, I think the DLLs should simply be in C:\Windows\System folder.
Using Windows search should help checking for the DLLs.

Here's a short mention of unicows.dll, also:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?2,113768

Here are the details (which versions of files needed etc):
https://web.archive.org/web/20190210095412/ht … i/Help:Contents

Again, it's just a wild guess, though.
Because that error message mentions an API function that's used on Windows NT.
So things may or may not be related to Unicode.
Windows 98 has some NT features for compatibility, but I'm not sure if that's relevant here.

"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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