So, as you had done in your first post, I have extracted the core.zip and unpacked all the .pack files, and while this install works on my main pc, Windows 10, it fails under Win98 with "Error: Loading: msvcr100.dll" as well as "Error: Loading: jvm.dll" I tried to install MSVC++ 10 however it requires windows installer 3 which requires windows NT. so I ask you; how did you get java 7 working under windows 98?