I could swear I've asked this before, because I've done this before. And I've been googling and doing forum searches without getting an answer, so I think I must be going crazy.

Out of all of the new software for my motherboard, I've gotten it all installed except for one thing: The sound card utilities, which refuse to install unless it's 98se.

I faked out the installer for the Intel chipset utilities by changing HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version\version number, and that worked fine and now I've got the chipset drivers all in place and they work fine. I even extracted the individual driver files for the sound card and installed those, and they seem to work. But the setup for the sound card's utilities (such as its fancy replacement for the Sound icon on the task bar) still refuses to run.

You'd think someone would have written a universal "installer fake-out" utility that would allow you to force an installer to work. But I can't find one when googling.

Anyone know of a universal way to fake out an installer?