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| | I am running Windows98 SE. My problem is that my Volume Control is non operative. When I click on "Multimedia Devices " in Control Panel the "Mixer Device" Tab tells me I have "No Audio Device". The Tabs Volume, Audio and Voice are "Greyed out" and I cant remedy the … |
| | recently i was told how to enter safe mode. on the way there, i entered into a screen that i will assume is the boot screen. here's what i see: 1. normal 2. logged 3. safe mode 4. step by step 5. command prompt 6. safe mode command prompt of …  |
| | I currently have nothing other than Norton Anti-virus and Spybot on my PC. Should I have another program to prevent pop ups, adware from planting themselves? I run spybot but the same pop ups keep coming back. At least the Porn ads stopped. Any suggestions. Running Window 98 second edition. … |
| | I recently purchased a used Dell Latitude LS laptop with 128 megs of ram. The operating system is Windows98 SE. It did not come with a floppy drive or a cdrom drive. I seem to be caught in a "Catch 22" situation. In order to install some external devices, such … |
| | I have an older computer, Compaq Presario 4770 with a Pentium 200 processor, 32 MB RAM, running Windows 98. I am looking for FREE firewall and antivirus programs that will run on my system. I have tried Avast, AVG, and Zone Alarm, but they all require a faster processor and … |
 | Hi, I wanted to format a hard drive and re-install the operating system ( Windows 98). It only had a primary partition, in which I deleted and I went to format it and... I get Not Ready Format Terminated It does this when it reaches around 9%. It is a … |
| | I'm trying to help a friend, and she's messed up the system someway. It is a Compaq Pentium II destop with a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan 17" monitor, and the system is 98SE. In Device Mgr. the monitor showing is the PCI VGA, and the problem is it will not give … |
| | I have a CD-ROM drive. All of a sudden the icon for the CD-ROM drive does not appear in My Computer and using the find linlk I cannot find any othere disc frive except for drive C. How can I get my PC to show my CD-ROM drive? Before this …  |
| | When trying to install fonts recently, I discovered that the "Install New Fonts" option was missing from the Font menu. After hours of googling I found someone with a similar problem who was told that the font file was corrupted. I tried the suggestions to restore it but they were … |
| | i kept getting a "need to close error" whenever i tired to open WMP so i uninstalled and reinstalled WMP10 and now well basically have this this error: [IMG]http://img301.echo.cx/img301/6532/error10bl.png[/IMG] so i removed WMP from my add/remove progs. and installed it again but the thing is it says i have the … |
| | please help| I am no longer able to hear sound when playing DVD's (Intervideo DVD) or cd's with video ie on Wndows media player. The only sound we hear is an ordinary CD in windows cd player. We do not hear sound when starting up Windows or Chimes etc. I … |
| | I have two IBM indenticle 425C PS/NOTE laptops. I know these are as old as time in the fast paced computer world, but was hoping they may handle JPG files for viewing on floppies. I had wanted to use Windows 95, but have only DOS 6.2 install disks right now. … |
| | Just a few days ago, I am unable to launch weblinks from in my email or any website. Once I click on a link, the program freezes for about 1 minute and then releases itself. It use to always open the site in another browser window. Now I have to … |
| | I keep getting a pop up that says: [B]Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Buffer overrun detected A buffer overun has been detected which has corrupted the programs internal state. Program cannot safely cont. execution and must terminate.[/B] It started when I tried to upgrade my AOL to the 9.0 Secutiry … |
| | Hi, I have a quick question. Is there any possible way to get the second restoration from Microsoft to reinstall ME to a computer? It was lost in a move and we need to reinstall the computer with ME. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! I don't know what service … |
| | I'm not sure I'd want to attempt a flash and fail, but out of all my BIOS systems, the Compaq DeskPro one is fairly limited and seems it could stand an update. My book PC uses Award's BIOS version 4 IIRC and dates to 2000, and not sure I need … |
| | windows xp i've appeared to have lost the cd-rom drive, it doesnt display on my computer, i went to the device manager and found the TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-R6112 with a yellow "!" next to it, what does this mean? i click properties and its says Windows successfully loaded the … |
| | On my BK630e book PC, bought a fresh copy of XP home edition full version and a 40GB drive to install on it. At the Starting Windows prompt where if I remember, the black WinXP screen replaces the standard text on blue opening motif, the keyboard lights go out, there … |
| | Hello, I'm new here. I have an HP Laptop running Windows ME. I've been having so many problems with it, the CD drive and the power source....but that's a whole other thing. Right now I'm trying to Restore to my factory settings so I inserted the Recovery disk and walked … |
| | To avoid an old thread bump, I thought I'd just mention as a current Windows ME user (for my processor equipped eMachine, opting to stick with ME for now) I have heard if you bought the system intact on the PC, preferribly new like me, it should run effortlessly, viruses … |
 | I have a P-4 with 512 MB Ram. I have loaded Win98 and Winxp. Winxp is working fine but the problem is with 98. When i enter into it first the Win98 logo comes up and then a blank screen comes up with a blinking small flat bar at the … |
| | Using a custom built PC, probably 3 years old. Pent 4, 2.26 Ghz 512 MB DDR Ram 40GB HDD Win98se This computer has been having some erractic minor faults for months, however this stuff started since changing from AOL DSL to SBC DSL. The following three errors popup several times … |
| | Hello, I run Win Me. I have always used WMP without a problem, until this week. I downloaded some files last week that played fine. A few days later, I went to play the files, and I get error message 0xC00D0029........(network connection has failed). Some play, some don't. I've tried … |
 | Few days ago I had installed the latest driver for my sound-card (Creative VIBRA 128). From then on my WMP 7.1 is not producing any sound. I can see the videos but there's no sound. But my winamp, DivX player and quicktime are working fine. Then I uninstalled WMP 7.1 … |
| | compaq running 98 2ed edition. all of a sudden when i try to use the compaq recovery disk to backup my system it shows "error 2001 fat copies are not identical". could it be from the latest updates from MS? any other ideas? thanks conrad |
| | my msn signs me in thn signs me out and it also doesnt let me talk 2 people sometimes.please,please,please, help some1 i really need 2 use msn. please reply as soon as possible. |
| | Hello all, i am a 14 year old computer tech. I know what your thinking, yeah right some little kiddie unplugged his hard drive and plugged it back in and considers himself a tech. HA. your all wrong. i have revived a gateway that my neighbors were throwing out because … |
| | I am trying to use the external hard drive on a win98se system. It asks for a driver when the startup identifies a new hardware, but I can't find it anywhere, including from winxp disk. Can someone help me with this? foxkueh |
| | Hi, I'm running windows 98se on an old NCR computer and while it has 2 USB ports the computer says I don't have any USB anything. I got an mp3 player and it powers up when you plug it into either of the USB ports (like it's supposed to) but …  |
| | i know this is an old thread, but i found it by dong a search on yahoo. my computer started popping up Runtime Error 226 at 07EB65FB last night. it pops up, i push ok, then it pops up again. i click ok again and the page will come up … |
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