OK - as win98 is still listed you have a valid point but I for one think that it's wrong to allocate scarce development resource to Win98 compatibility when there are many far more useful features on the wish list that would benefit far more users.

I do wonder how many win98+ fab platinum users are out rhere and what % of the total usert base that is.

NB discount win98+ free fab decyrpter users here as they contribute nothing to the program's future development and shouuld have no say in development priorities

perhaps a poll ??

because you want to waste "our" communal development resource on "your" tiny minority issue.

to me- fixing win98 support is even less important than fixing the colour of the monkey in Vista!!!

all time spent fixing your issue is time that could otherwise be spent on new features in the wish list or on support for new movies.

Everyone is missing the point!!! False addvertising, and the man should recieve a full refund if they can't make it work. They got his money by saying it would work, imto facto.

Everyone is missing the point!!! False addvertising, and the man should recieve a full refund if they can't make it work. They got his money by saying it would work, imto facto.

cybmole;The windows 98 users get it you want them to get a newer OS.Continually posting that as a solution doesn't help for some that is not a possible solution.
GregiBoy;Most people are not in the IT,developer,etc business & are home users.They just want software that is supposed to work on their OS to work.
Donewell;To me a full refund is not good enough.That doen't pay a person for thsolution.e time they have wasted downloading,installing,maybe several computer freezes requiring a hard power off shutdown possibly damaging their files & then uninstalling.The effort spent in getting a refund & waiting for the refund.
Fixing the problem is the correct solution.

cybmole;The windows 98 users get it you want them to get a newer OS.Continually posting that as a solution doesn't help for some that is not a possible solution.
GregiBoy;Most people are not in the IT,developer,etc business & are home users.They just want software that is supposed to work on their OS to work.
Donewell;To me a full refund is not good enough.That doen't pay a person for thsolution.e time they have wasted downloading,installing,maybe several computer freezes requiring a hard power off shutdown possibly damaging their files & then uninstalling.The effort spent in getting a refund & waiting for the refund.
Fixing the problem is the correct solution.

Well said, I agree 100%

Well said, I agree 100%

IMHO it is not the software but how each system is configured. You have to take some responsibility for your own setup. The reason, or at least one of them, that microsoft quit supporting 98,98se, ect., was that it was getting to difficult for the average consumer to properly keep all of softwares compatible with one another.

I have no access to Window 98, but I am sure if the user base was at least 1% we would have heard more of this as this program is popular the world over. I have no problems with this program in XP, ME, Windows 2000, I did however have a small problem with less than 512mbs of Ram on a laptop on Windows 2000. I beta test this program extensively and find it to be one of the best around for a very fair price. I suggest you try the free trial on another computer and see the outcome. If you have no problems than your computer or OS is to blame not the program. Everyones configuration is different, you cannot expect it to conform to 100% of the configurations out there. Just my personal opinion. If you want to use new and improved software you have to use new and improved hardware. Just my take.

alan1476;I don't know how many are having this problem with 98 There are at least 2.I know more about my freinds problem & I'm not running the DVDFab5.0.2.0 on my older 98 computer.
I do know we both have AnyDVD & CloneDVD2 & Windows 98 Has worked with even the newest releases available.
So if AnyDVD & CloneDVD2 still work with Windows 98 on my friends computer to do basically the same thing.There is no valid reason that DVDFab5.0.2.0 doesn't.

No not really, that is one of my points, you need to know more about how things work with older OS's or you whine when something does not work for you.

Well, the program crashes at the same point on my Windows Me computer, so I would say it do sounds as there is something in the latest version that makes Win9x based computers to crash. Version 4 still works on my computer, if that version also had crashed, I had suspected my own computer to be the faulty one.

I did a rip with AnyDVD & CloneDVD2 full size 6.98GB without any compressing , customizing or splitting in 30 minutes.
This was a 2007 movie Black Christmas.
This was on my Windows 98.

To all having issues please list all burning/ripping/viewing software that is also installed on your rigs, that is where the problem is. Test rig, Hp zd7000 window 98se all patches and only 5.0.2.0 installed, works fine.

to all those running 10 year old O/S expect problems to arise its like all those people with old cars that need lead additives to work,either cope with the problems or update.
life is too short to moan and groan about being a luddite..
if version 4 works stick to that many of my programs are old and never get updated but when they fail to work with vista i just carry on without...

Of course any other software can cause a compatibility problem From your Anit-virus to your zip software.
Are you saying the only software on your test machine is the 98se OS with patches & DVDFab5.0.2.0.No other software?
The 98 machine my friend is having problems with has the same software Earlier versions of 4 worked with.Only later version 4 & 5 are having problems.So the change is in the newer DVDfab & that is where the incompatibility problem is.

If it was a word processing program it could work, you keep forgetting new protection schemas.

You are just one more not helping.The point is DVDfab5.0.2.0 is sold as working with Windows 98.It doesn't matter that it is a 10 year old OS that has only had MS stop support less than 2 years ago.
When XP is stopped being sold for new computers next month do you expect support by DVDFab for XP to stop? With only Vista supported for new updates by DVDFab ? I doubt that you or others would be satisfied with that.
Now being a car guy myself there are no LEAD additives sold period that would be illegal at least in the USA.There is a lead substitute to make the valves work on old classic car engines that were designed to run leaded fuel.This is a lubricant but contains no Lead.Also this would be for cars at least 36 years old not 10.

My point is, and then I am done with this thread, 98se and 5.0.2.0 work fine, so it does work with 98se. Fix your machine to use it.

No problem ~Jethro~ glad it worked for you it hasn't for others.You didn't say if your 98se test machine had any other software on it.So I guess we won't have that information.
I know my freinds was working withan older version of DVDfab v 4 so it has to be a recent change that has caused the incompatability.Even if it is caused by having another software on the computer the problem was caused by a change in DVDfab.
btw he used Ctrl/Alt/Delete to end task everything but systray ,Explorer,&
DVDFab.So conflicts should be limited.
Fengtao hasn't responded that he has done it with a 98se os or that he hasn't had any complaints about the freezing problem.I would like to see what he posts.

You just do not get it. No other software correct, so the problem is with "other" installed software not DVD FAB itself.

windows ME was rubbish anyway,MS knew it was thats why xp was born....sorry that i wasnt helping matters but if dvdfab works with 98 without conflict with other programs and all that is needed is a few tweaks here and there then what is the problem...the point about the cars was that if you want to keep things working when operating systems(fuel) are obsolete you work round it not moan about it

as tony christie sang 'is this the way to amar(illo) a operating system '

I have a Vista machine so I also have a new OS.
But hey why don't you just not find the way to Amarillo.