Yup, that's the gist of it. ;)

Any chance this disk got sys'd with a bootdisk from a different version of Windows? You might get some pretty strange errors doing that. Same could be said for the himem.sys file, if perhaps Windows...

It's been 4 or so years since I've had a Windows 9x machine, however I'll comment, even though I'm a bit rusty. :)

You probably have no Config.sys, as if you don't use Dos, you don't really need...

Good that you managed to at least get up and running somewhat. Maybe someone else here has some advice on the USB issue, (I never had much luck getting USB and 98SE running well, but I retired from...

Mike's right, (though I believe he meant get Windows XP or 2000, not NT, which is no longer supported).

I stick with IE, but have formed a very firm opinion that those who aren't extremely computer literate should use Firefox or Opera, and only use IE when a page won't work correctly.

A week ago, I...

Your machine probably has 2 serial ports, you should disable the one you aren't using in your BIOS. Second: You might want to try that modem in a different PCI slot, especially if the slot you are...

He may have an even bigger problem, judging by the specs on that notebook: 133mhz (or SLOWER, that was the fastest in that series) Pentium. I doubt its bios supports bootable CD. :(

Glad to help. :)

From what I've gathered, Registry Shaver, (RegShave.exe), is a tool installed with certain Fuji digital camera's software. It is safe to disable this from what I've found, and disabling it doesn't...