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| | OK.. I got my hands on an old ibm thinkpad without a floppy drive and cd rom. Its running on windows 98 se. the modem is not working and it got no ethernet connection. It DOES have a usb port so i bought a usb ethernet controller (Billionton 10/100 fastethernet) … |
| | A friend has an old pc running win98 he bought a new dell with xp! He needs some files off old pc but has no rewriter!! It will take approx 70 floppies to take data, Can i connect the 2 hard drives and transfer the data from old to new? … |
| | i've have a HP Pavilion N3110 notebook win 98 se 64 megs of pc100 ram(2x32meg sticks) did a clean install of win98 se from the factory discs only things running is explorer systray rundll32 memzip <-- program i put on to show me mem and cpu usage no adware or …  |
 | [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=DarkRed]I'm not able to locate [B]Disk Defragmenter[/B] under System tools. How do I reinstall it from my Win 98SE CD. I also checked the [B]Windows Setup[/B] tab but was unable to find Disk Defragmenter under any main components.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] |
| | I encountered a laserjet 6l that is printing the paper completely black .I exchanged tthe catriadge with a working one and the problem still exists.Earlier it showed that it had an error like the printer door was open although everything looked fine and I had to open the screws to … |
| | For Some Reazon My Sys. Restore Is Not Working And I Try To Reinstalled But, The Sys Restore Is Part Of The Pc-health Files And I Have Problems With It. Please If Is Possible Help Me With This Matter |
| | So I'm all set to reinstall Win98se on my P3 650. According to the tutorial, the first thing I must do is to get into the BIOS thing as the computer boots up. So I press 'del' as it starts up. It takes me to a blue DOS screen that … |
| | i have reinstalled win98 sec but i dont have display drivers, & sound drivers for my pc |
| | Hi there, I have Windows 98SE and had to reformat last week. Everything went fine except my 'E' drive will not open. I have gone in to 'My Computer' and it does not even show up there. Can anyone help me to get it back. I would be greatly appreciated. … |
| | After reformatting I have re-installed Microsoft 2000 Premium. I was asked for my CD No which I entered when installing both discs and as far as I knew the installation went ok. I can access all Programmes, Power Point, Excel etc but when I open up Microsoft Word to type … |
| | I'm always having a tough time describing my bookPC to people in stores here dealing with computers daily....seems one of the least known of all PC varieties. It doesn't have a brand name so it's a good system for OEM software, I recently noted when looking to upgrade OS, however, … |
| | I'm about ready to reinstall Win98se. I've saved most everything I can think of but I'm not sure how to preserve my e-mail stuff. I use Outlook Express 6. I've copied the wab.exe file from the Outlook Express folder in Program Files. Will that work for the Address Book? I … |
| | my operating system is windows xp professional version 2002, it is custom built, last few programs installed are virtual dj. my problem started about a couple weeks ago i wanted to burn a cd and then i realize that i could the program nero did not recognize the cd that … |
| | This is the legacy section but there isnt an area so ok. Does anyone here know how to network windows 3.1? |
| | This is my first post...hope I'm in the right place. I am trying to network 2 lousy PCs. One is WINME the other XPPRO. I have internet cnxs on both, but I cannot see the shared printer and folders from either machine. I have file and print sharing enabled and … |
| | I've got a P3 650 with Win98se. There's so much crap on it, we've battled viruses over the years, and god knows what else is wrong with it. It's running so slow that it's either time to trash everything and reinstall Win98se or throw the freakin' thing away and buy … |
| | Anybody please help me. its URGENT my computer is dual boot running win xp and win 98 and now my win 98 is showing some trouble when I start my win 98 there are no icons on the desktop and no start button and system tray.actully my computer was infected … |
| | Hello there, I started having problems burning music on Nero Express 6 yesterday which somehow affected the Windows Media Player and Creative PlayCenter applications. 1. Nero indicated that I was missing the WinASpi file which I subsequently corrected and now Nero is working fine. 2. When I try to launch … |
| | I get this error everytime I reboot: Error loading powrprof.dll A device attached to the system is not functioning. I am running Windows ME 384Ram I dont know what else to tell you. I had a bout with some spyware and have cleaned that up (I Hope). Do you think … |
| | Ok, recently had a serious problem with windows, it was all screwed up. After awhile of trying to fix it, I decided to just reinstall windows(didnt format the disk either, just reinstalled the OS) Well, that did the trick....except for one thing. My video and sound were just......gone. I was … |
| | I keep getting the error "Stmgr has caused an error in MSVCRT.DLL. Stmgr will now close" a few seconds after WinMe has booted to the Desktop. Rebooting does no good...that error still comes up every time. I read in another forum that renaming all msvcrt.dll's except for the one in … |
| | I just bought an mp3 player which requires windows 98SE (which I have) to use. But when I start the installation for the software that comes with the mp3 player, a box appears saying that windows 98SE is required. I don't know why it won't recognize it as Second Edition. … |
| | Windows ME Whenever I try to delete a file, I receive a message "Cannot delete ___. Access is denied. The source file may be in use." This happens no matter what file I try to delete. What could be using every file on the C drive? How do I regain … |
| | I started with Win ME Having many problems with it, (But my sound was OK) I formatted and installed Win 98SE All is OK except I now do not have any sound. Device Manager sees the sound card, but has a big yellow ? next to it. My question: Could … |
| | Windows 98SE Compaq Presario 7478 ESS Allegro PCI Audio (WDM) When I try to play anything in WMP the window opens and it acts like it will play. The title of song and the length of the song are displayed. It thinks, and thinks, and thinks, and things,e tc. Sometimes, … |
| | OK, it may not be the floppy drive itself, but... Every time I boot Windows (doesn't happen in Linux) my floppy drive light comes on and starts buzzing. It happens about 2-3 times before it finally stops. I'm thinking it's virus-related, but is it a virus trying to infect it … |
| | Hello - I had to re-install Windows (98SE) the other day, and since then, I've been unable to access any secure pages such as checkout pages on shopping sites. Also, my son is unable to open his Hotmail email or MSN message board. I've re-installed IE version 6, but still …  |
| | Good Day, Im having a problem with my computer, when i turn it on it always shows a error message: "Invalid Setting in MSDOS.SYS : SYS" can somebody help me with my problem... |
| | Please help, for some reason its like explorer keeps restarting itself.. I was infected with a virus but I got rid of it.. It was a Trojan Dropper, I had read that it is a backdoor.. I didnt want to post in the virus/hardware forum because I don't know if … |
| | Hi there, Im haveing a problem with the PCtools Program called Spyware Doctor This is the error i get when clicking on the icon.. [IMG]http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7613/error1mt.png[/IMG] Computer Info.. [url]http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/bowdown/Report.txt[/url] (used EVEREST v2.20.405) Anyone know how i can correct this problem?  |
 | Hi Everyone, I am having a big problem with a computer i was just given that had windows 98 on it. When I turn the computer on, it starts to boot up, it checks for the: Primary Master: Maxtor Primart Slave: none Secondary Master: none Secondary Slave: none Then it … |
| | I'm using Windows ME. When i click on My Network Places it pops up an alert box of Low Resources says "Ninety percent or more of your system resources are in use. ......" At that time i didn't have any applications on. What's wrong with it? How do I fix … |
| | my msn messenger isnt working and it hasnt been working for 2 days when i try signing it says sorry we are unable to sign u into messenger at this time please try again later....i tried everything to get it working i uninstalled and reinstalled i also checked the network … |
| | I am running Windows 98 SE on a Celeron 2 GHz with 128 MB RAM. I am having problems installing msi files. My system will simply not recognize them though I have the Windows Installer Service already installed. Could someone please suggest a solution to my problem. Thanks rational611 |
| | ok I have windows ME, 256 RAM, intel celeron, Hp computer. De-frag does not work because an error screen comes up after 10 min and says there are errors on my disk, and to run scandisk to fix the problem, i go and run scan disk, an hour later i … |
| | I had a computer made for me with Windows ME by a friends brother. PC has worked fine, until when I switched it on today an error message saying "Invalid System disk replace the disk and press any key" has come up as soon as I switch on my computer. … |
| | Recently I bought a VCD and tried to play it on my computer with 32X LG CDROM. The video was playing without the sound. I tried to play the same VCD on a friends computer and it was playing all right with the sound. What could be the problem with …  |
| | Upgraded to xp from me and all was well until it booted and as soon as my desktop should have loaded and appeared I got the "an error has occured in windows explorer" window and when I select "don't send report" I am left with an XP desktop theme with … |
| | Hello, I just took the hard drive out of my daughter's computer and installed a new hard drive.... Turned the thing on and it says: "No Operating system found". So, I tried to reload the disks that came with her computer (HP) But, it didn't work... I go into "Set …  |
| | I cant find a file called wmdaud.cat and I need it for my onboard sound card... YAMAHA Native DS1 WDM Ive got the rest of he files .drv .ks .sys but all I need is this .cat file. I went to YAMAHA website but that doesnt seem to work. |
| | When I restart or shutdown machine stucks at "WINDOWS IS SHUTTING DOWN". any solution ??? |
| | I have installed the IE6 in W98SE following all the instructions that appear in several sites of experts in the subject (Compu-Docs and others). It was all OK in a notebook, so I recorded a CD with all the necessary archives (following the instructions already mentioned), trying to install IE6 … |
| | We recently bought a new computer and have put our old one in our childs room. The computer is dreadfully slow, how can we remedy it. It is an HP Pavillion, we had replaced the hard drive after a crash. It has WinMe on it along with tons of programs. … |
| | I have a PC with windows 98 as its OS. In the last couple of days I have not been able to start it up simply because I get the above message. Can you help me please? |
| | I was advised to use my Windows CD to repair some files and find that I now have 2 sets of system files on my machine. They are: C:\System.1st 4,797 1ST File 10/21/04 C:\System.new 6,045 NEW File 5/23/05 How can I safely get rid of the earlier one, regain disk … |
| | Hi! I want to buy a used Compaq laptop with Win98. The owner say it has a problem: computer goes to Compaq's help program when you start it and you can't go to neither windows or dos. Is it a difficult problem to fix? Any ideas out there? Thanks, Alan |
| | Hi. I use some seriously antiquated hardware to run my picture and video servers for my site [url=www.huntsvillecarscene.com]Huntsville Car Scene.com[/url]. Each server runs Win95 osr2 with MS Personal Web Server 1.0a. One is a Pentium Pro 180 with 32MB ram. The other is a 486dx33 with 24MB ram. They work … |
| | I'm having a problem when adding a printer on a machine in a network on a host that has xp professional ;its saying I dont have the permission to open a resource.I went to check if the printer is shared ,and yes its shared and the guest account is enabled.I'm … |
| | Hello. I'm hoping to find some solution to the "3cmlink has caused an error in 3CV42.DLL. 3mclink will now close" error message. When this happens, stuff freezes up and I gotta go back, Jack, do it again.... I have WIndows ME ( i know, i know...), but all of what …  |
| | I've developed a problem with my STANDBY mode. When I try to go on STANDBY (START>SHUTDOWN>STANDBY) the system will hang on me. When I use ALT-CTRL-DEL it says that the STANDBY is not responding, so I press END TASK and then the system hangs on me. My SHUTDOWN & RESTART … |
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