Hey there, Hi there, Ho there,
try it as this:
1. Start "regedit"
2. Klick on the little "+" in front of the folder HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Now it takes a while but eventually a very long list of more folders should open up below the folder HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT set a few inches to the left, which means inside that folder.
The first part of the list consists of folders which start with a "." - but the one we are looking for starts without a dot!! So scroll down for ages, till you finally reach the entries without a dot at the beginning. Usually those staret with a large letter. They are sorted alphabetical ...
3. Now scroll down to the "C"s and somewhere there should be an entry "CLSID"
Note that this is not a "file" but once again only a folder!!
4. So click on the little "+" in front of the folder CLSID
Once again a long list consisting of even more folders is loaded and displayed below the folder CLSID set another few inches to the left, which means inside that folder.
They all start with a "{" and then a long number ending again with "}" - and this is the point: the first part of this seemingly endless list only has numbers at the beginning behind teh bracket!! So you have to scroll for ages, till you reach those entries with letters at the beginning behind the brackets - and yes, this is very, very far down the list!
5. So scroll the list down till you reach the "entry" / "folder" we are looking for "{bdc67890-4fc0-11d0-a805-00aa006d2ea4}" - note that most propably "bdc" will be written in capital letters - but it is the correct entry. On my Win98 system there are only two entries starting with "{BDC" so it is easy to overlook them, so scroll slowly and recheck once you are in the proximity of where they should be the sorted list displayed by regedit.
Note that this is not a "file" but once again only a folder!!
6. So click on the little "+" in front of the folder {BDC67890-4FC0-11D0-A805-00AA006D2EA4}
Now once again another folder should be displayed once more a few inches to the left below {BDC67890-4FC0-11D0-A805-00AA006D2EA4}. This folder should be called "InstalledVersion" if you click on this folder, a value will be displayed in the right window of regedit (so far we only worked in the left window). This is the value mentioned by SonyEricsson. It should be the value they mentioned or higher.
If you have downloaded the update from Microsoft and followed through the installation process as explained by Microsoft this should be as asked for by SonyEricsson.
Hope this solves your problem ...
Myself I still had no sucess getting Win98 to work with my P800, I downloaded the drivers for the DSS-20 from SonyEricsson (as these drivers are not included with the downloadable Sync-Software PC-Suite) but Win98 says teh folder into which I unpacked those drivers from SonyEricsson wouldn't contain any drivers for the docking station 😞
Yours sincerely
Dirk