how do i get 98 to reboot to an eaelier date? like to weeks ago

Hi I had or still have a browser hijacker problem.The guy who sold me the computer came over & downloaded Adaware&Spybot. When both failed to remove hijacker,he went to FIND and deleted files that were created on the date I first noticed my homepage was redirected to present {9-4 to9-12.When he...

I have a 6-pin to 4-pin IEEE 1394 Firewire cable. (Length: 1.8M ,Data transfer rate: 100/200/400MB/s , Plug and play operation) I have the CD burner as well.Perhaps now I need a firwire card to transfer my mini DV camcorder movie to my computer and then to CD-RW. is is correct and do I need some...

Anyone come across this one - while I'm working, and I can't nail down a pattern here, suddenly all my keypresses get grabbed by the desktop - I press 'f' and I get the file find window for instance no matter what window has the focus. Got anti-virus running so /fairly/ confident it isn't that. Any...

Suddenly all my file folders are sorting icons in reversed date order - also won't default to Details view. Tried all the usual stuff with folder settings - .. make all folders look like this one... Poked about the registry, but not too confident there unless directed. Google only brought up...

Recently, I tranfer the old Window 98 4.3 GB hard drive to the new computer. Originally, the new PC can't see the Hard drive and it shows "Invalid system disk",so I loaded the 98 startup disk and typed the command "Sys c:". Now the new PC can see the Hard disk, but only the C drive, not the D and E...

When my window 98 starts in normal mode, it gives out the following message. "It's now safe to turn off your computer " I tried to use safe mode, but it got blue screen and gave out some error message. I ran scandisk and it has no error.

27 minutes past midnight BST on 3rd July and its gone from the MS server. But still exists elsewhere. Mart

Whilst browsing Google newsgroups on cracked laptop lcd panels, I found a sound piece of advice to someone whose laptop display was on its last legs: they said that, whilst the display still worked, he should learn which keystrokes would activate an external monitor in case it failed on...

How do I make changes in Win 98 so that I can type the characters I see on my keyboard into MS DOS? I believe I probably have the wrong language set-up. I can change MS Office applications via Settings/Control Panel/Langauge to reflect the caharacters on my keyborad but this does not change things...

When i open windows explorer and choose the 'details' options from the 'view' menu all my files disappear.When i choose another option for example 'list' they appear as normal! can anyone help?

Every few months, on boot up - at about the point where the desktop should appear - the screen goes blank, neither pure white or black and occasionally refreshes its blankness. To reboot I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice and the desktop appears for a fraction of a second before the reboot. I...

In my C root directory, there's a file c:\" (375kb). The symbol " seems an odd name for a file. I've tried searching with Google but the " causes problems and every web page with a letter C turns up. Just out of interest, is this a genuine file? Thanks.

Device Manager lists my laptop keyboard as a "standard 101/102 key or Microsoft natural keyboard". Nevertheless, there are no numeric pad keys and only 80-odd keys in total. I've been through the update driver wizard, listing all hardware and I can't see anything obviously more appropriate....

Posted for future reference only. Suddenly my laptop would hang during the bootup process but booted ok into Safe Mode. Significantly, this behaviour was identical on botth bootable partitions (both 98 SE) on one hard drive and also on a third bootable partition (98SE) on a separate hard...

Safe Mode appears to be a lot slower than normal mode when running, for example, Scandisk, installing programs or doing a spyware check. Why is this - assuming this is normal? I expected that, with no background programs running, Safe Mode would turn out to be at least as fast as...

There is (or was) a seemingly magical program called Tweakbios at http://www.miro.pair.com/tweakbios/ that claims: "This shareware program lets you tune your chipset, CPU and video card probably more than any 'real' BIOS. And using it is simple; you don't have to worry about 'flashing' your BIOS,...

A couple of weeks ago I tried to make the periodic backup image of my primary drive C using Drive Image 5, But DI-5 locked up with a message saying the it couldn't write to the mbr because it was protected, the first time that had happened. I ran the utility IVINIT and fixed that problem, but...

When trying to instal a program (Zoomtext) from a cd, I get an Ikernel error message during the first stages of the installation. As it happens I have the program on different cds - one gives the error message: Ikernel - this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down......

I am installing a PCMCIA combo card to my 5-year-old laptop. The card has inputs for USB 2.0 and Firewire and slots into one of the PCMCIA slots. The installation asks for a PCI Universal Serial Bus driver. I assume that I can find such a driver on one of the cds that came with the laptop. ...