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Hi All! I am hoping someone can help me with the problem I am having. On August 9, I booted my computer and got a message "non system disk error." Of course, I checked the floppy drive and no disk was in there. I ended up reinstalling Windows 98 SE, …

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i am unsure what is the best way to format a hard drive using Windows ME. what would the best way be?

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I have got Win98SE, and have had a tough time with CoolWebSearch, Bridge.dll, BridgeX.dll and all sorts of other spyware that wreck havoc on my comp. However, today I found out that double clicking My Computer makes the System Properties open up. Of course, I can simply right click and …

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Greetings I recently come across a very old computer (a legend) which had very important information but it was very noisy at times especially after it boots and so I decided to clean it inside and actually it was very dusty.However, even after cleaning the noise was still there and …

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Hi guys! I'm very grateful for the help I've received through this forum, it has been tremendously useful, that's why I'm back. It is very hot in Arizona. Yesterday my computer got very hot and kicked me out of Word for Windows. Today, even though I tried to keep it …

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My floppy drive a:\ will no longer work. As far as I know, I didn't do anything that should have caused it to quit (like installing new software or hardware). It just didn't work one day. I have tried removing the driver, removing the device, and opening the case to …

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I was trying to install a game from a CD, but later decided to uninstall it. After the uninstall was complete, Windows started to look very strange. Its never been like this before. Its like it looks has gone back in time or something, because it doesn't look normal anymore.....Check …

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I get the following error message when starting my laptop. "Error Loading Explorer.exe. You must reinstall Windows" What should I do?

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Hi, I was initially trying to partition my 40g ide hard drive to have Windows and Linux installed on it.. I used fdisk to delete the partition and then created a primary partition of 75% to install windows back onto. The problem is that when I try to install WME …

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:( How do I open large files? Aol says they can't support them so they can't or won't open them. I lose some of my emails this way. This happens when I have to downloead an email. What can I do to get it opened? Some of those emails contain …

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:mad: How do I get MIME files to open? I hate all that jibberish that I can't read.

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ok well when i boot up with windows 98 SE i get 3 errors before windows starts up. saying same thing for all .vxd files Cannot find a device or file that may be needed to run windoes or an application. The windows registry or system.ini file refers to theis …

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i was wondering if anyone could tell me if it is possible to change the icons of windows 98 SE like you can ME and up. i have made shortcuts and changed them but that didn't work to well i managed getting rid of the arrow which makes it a …

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cant delete files i tried the MOS THING AND IT DIDNT WORK. i icons on the desktop are not bright like the others and thats why i think i cant delete it. what do i do? and its a shortcut.

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Hi, while surfing, window always pop up the following error message.pls help thks RUNDLL32 caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> at 0000:01180ab4. Registers: EAX=64069660 CS=017f EIP=01180ab4 EFLGS=00010206 EBX=0000a800 SS=0187 ESP=58958400 EBP=0063fba0 ECX=0063fb8c DS=0187 ESI=0063fd14 FS=3697 EDX=006347a8 ES=0187 EDI=0063fba8 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 31 30 39 31 38 33 …

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OS: 98SE I have a computer that (When it is booting; still a black screen) it says: HARDWARE MONITOR FOUND AN ERROR. ENTER POWER SETUP MENU FOR DETAILS. I don't know what to look for. Ideas?

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Ok this is my first post on this forum , bear with me please. This is for my parents computer it is an older model of toshiba, satelllite ... something 5-6 yrs old. Windows 98 se. Nothing wrong with their computer until I installed a Microsoft Optical wheel mouse and …

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And not a minute later. Hello I have crappy system. Windows 98 in a E-machine ( remember them, lets not go there), Pentium Celeron 600m computer. I have had this for years and do not have a cd burner and my A drive floppy doesnt work. I have a lot …

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Where is a utility that identifies running programs? When one presses ctrl-alt-del a list of running programs comes up. Most of the listings are difficult to identify. I would like to keep my old machine as lean and clean as possible. If I can identify unneccessary programs I can stop …

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I recently discovered a problem with the version of Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition (Windows 98) that I have on my computer. I open Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition and there is no menu bar or title bar present. When I press the “alt

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I have a Compaq ij600 printer. Before my print job starts a page comes out saying"Microsoft(R) windows Millennium Edition ................................................... Document: address of where I am printing from. Printed By:default Date and Time.This is getting very annoying and I cannot figure out how to fix it. K :cry:

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ok i got a nearly-new S3 trio 3D video card. but when i put it in windows only detects it as a standard pci video card, when it is an AGP card. so i can only get the standard resolution with 16 colours. i tried downloading the correct drivers, but …

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Hi all, sure hope somebody can help me. On my sons computer, everything is big. The font and the windows. I tried to change the display settings but the window that opens is so big that the ok, apply and cancle button are behind the toolbar. I close the toolbar, …

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Error message when starting Windows 98 SE that file SYSTEM/INI i missing or deleted on purpose. Later, another error message infforms that 'msnp32.dll' is missing. Please guide me.

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Just built new gamer with P4 and windows ME problem started two weeks after starting using system. From time to time on startup I get the following blue screen message code. OE:109F:BFF8E64B at this point I have to restart my system and then it boots up OK. I'm lost cannot …

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Perhaps you all can help me. Our computer took the wonderful opportunity of dumping our Nvidia graphics card and now we can't get it to work right again. We have it loaded, the system recognizes it, and our monitor is running off of it . . . but for some …

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hi My WIN98SE POP UP THIS "Rundull32" frequently. Can someone pls help ? :lol: thks

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The past week or so, whenever I start my computer I get an error that says Stimon--this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Otherwise, my computer seems to be working ok, but I thought there has to be a reason it's doing that. I am …

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I am trying to save a neighbors computer and I need some help. They are running windows Me and cant get it to boot. it comes to the compaq splash screan and goes to a blank screen with a blinking underscore thing but you can type into it. I have …

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Thanks everyone !! Time to take machine to town I guess , wish i had more input and guidence , but i will say this site seem`s cool if your an advanced pc operator . Ever need a master electricians advice or troubleshooting guidence lets talk !!!!!!!! ZAPPPPPPP im outa …

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I have run out of ideas! 3 years ago I bought a dell 733Mhz with Win98se, 10gig HD. 18 months ago I bought a 60gig HD from WD and installed it. 6 months ago the 60gig died, I was able to transfer the files I wanted to keep from it …

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I am desperatelty in need of some help here. I had downloaded the DirectX SDK from MSDN library. But whenever i tried to run the downloaded exe file i was given the following message: [QUOTE]WinZip Self-Extractor header corrupt.Possible cause: bad file or file transfer error[/QUOTE] Then i downloaded the DirectX …

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Dear Friends, I have an original Windows 98 CD with me, I would like to format my HD and I was unable to findout the CD cover that contains the CD key. Could anyone tell me how to get the the CD key from the CD. Is it possible? Thanks …

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My computer, with Win98SE, was on the Internet one day and it worked fine then. But the next day, although Windows booted up okay, I found it impossible to enter shortcuts to "My Computer," "Internet Explorer" and others. I am unable to right click on the display to access "Display," …

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I have no sound card in my old comp im putting back together..Do I have to have one in order to make the CD-Rom work? I dont have an extra one to put in it or the $$ to go buy one at the moment. If there is any way …

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HI guys!! I havent posted here in awhile but the last few times i was greatly helped with my problems. Now I have a new one. Im putting my old comp back together for my mother to use and had it all together and even had it started up and …

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My computer was working fine yesterday, I shut down, and everything was fine. This morning when I cut it on, my display isn't right. There is about half an inch of space on the (my) left hand side of the screen, while on the other side it is right...it's as …

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For anyone else having problems with mouse and keyboard hesitation...my problem turned out to be the Keylogger.trojan virus which was in my windows\system file. For whatever reason Norton could not clean the virus off the machine until I went to safe mode. I hope this helps someone else!!!

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Can anyone help, Ive been at this problem all week!! Installed new hard drive , modum , cant adjust screen area 640x480 16 color . I restart pc pop up says cant used the display settings u choose , Ive tried to remove monitor and restert thinking it would detect …

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I had to install a new hard drive , 98 came with my pc , lost everything ! borrowed a factory 98 and upgrade from a friend . I have a 19" screen that is stuck on 16 color 648x480. 5 days now , I also notice in device manager …

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Every time I turn on my computer, it says there may be phisical damage in my hard disk and recommends scandisk. But when I run scandisk in windows98se, it reports nothing wrong. can anyone tell me what the matter is? in fact, it bothers me a lot thank you for …

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This is weird. On my win98se machine the icons will randomly change themselves. FOr example, a word document .doc will change its icon to some other weird one, like ones that u would find deep within windows system folder or the like. The other problem is that there are times …

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I'm having a problem doing the disk defrag on my computer. I'm running Windows 98. My problem isn't like the other person who posted a defrag problem thread....I set my up to run a defrag a couple of nights ago, and was just going to let it run all night, …

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Have a Windows 98 SE. Lost IE a few months ago (not sure why - fires up but no connection to the server) but Opera, OE, MIRC worked. Upgraded to ME and lost the connection to everything. Any ideas why?

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ok i just installed my capture card, and i have installed all the drivers. but when i try to run the tv viewing program, i get this error message: [IMG]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=493[/IMG] it wont open the program, and windows device manager says the card is working fine. what could be the problem? …

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[SIZE=5][COLOR=Navy][B][FONT=Arial] Im having trouble opening files such as my control panel or my properties to open my screen savers etc.. it keeps saying my Rundll32.exe file is missing and the only way i can think that i dont have it anymore is that someone or somehow it was removed or …

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[FONT=Arial]undefined[/FONT]I have a hp pavilion 6350 and 2 modems. one is 56k other is 56k/v90, would there be a differnce in my connection?

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Hello I have win 98. And had a problem with using the maintenance wizard to defrag and clean up hard drive. It kept restarting itself and I had to defrag in "safe mode" However everytime I use the safe mode for that it messes up my icons on my desktop …

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