Forum Rules - Formats - Spotlights  -  Home - Library - New Additions

How to disable the Windows Timebomb, (Windows 98 Betas on Virtualbox)

RgamesOfficalRgamesOffical
in Software

I am trying a Windows 98 Beta on Virtualbox and I want to disable the Timebomb in the Beta. I will be booting off of a MS-DOS 6.22 Setup disk. Just exit the DOS setup and your in DOS!

Comments

  • RgamesOfficalRgamesOffical

    Solution: Use VMware.

  • Bry89Bry89
    edited February 2019

    And how does using VMware help disable the "timebomb" completely? I'd like a detailed explanation.

  • win32win32
    edited February 2019

    It doesn't. I think he's talking about resetting the date in the BIOS (since VMware has a proper BIOS interface). It's possible in VirtualBox but it must be done through the config files and something like subtracting the days from the current date (have to look it up).

    Is there a tweaknt equivalent for win9x? That would do the trick (for disabling the timebomb).

  • Windows 2000Windows 2000
    edited June 2019

    @win32 Yes, there is, you just have to restart after 1st stage of setup, boot from a DOS diskette, type in sys c: and reboot to the hard disk.
    BTW I have posted a tut about this on BA (https://betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=39876)

Sign In or Register to comment.