I just got accepted to beta test joost tv on my computer. Joost allows yo to watch some tv programs on your computer. The problem is that it works only in xp and I am using windows 2000. Is there a way to "fool" an app to make it think it is xp? Or something else besides install xp?

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I'd also love to know how to do this.

If you can fool an app to think WIN98 is XP, 2000 should be even easier.

It's gotta be possible.

What happens when you try to use it on W2000?

I get a message that it works on xp sp2 and above

You can try the directions here to strip the version check.

You can try the directions here to strip the version check.

Though i am a strong Win2K supporter, since most of those TV or media software uses some XP built-in DLL (Dynamic Link Library) calls, make them OS dependent, so it may not possibly work for win2k.

Those DLL make software developer easier to do their job (Instead of writing all the codes, only one system call would do the job), but at the same time make their software tied up to the specific OS, you can consider it's Microsoft's trick to make her customer loyal.

Try bypass the version check, if it won't work, maybe some experts on both XP/2K figure out where are those system calls go, and copy those DLL or any stuff to Win2K, is a better and more systematic way to do the job.