Intermittent win98 boot problem. After accepting password and just as playing startup sound, it comes up with "explorer error". On click, it then comes up with "vsmon error". Need ctl-alt-del shutdown. May do this 2 or 3 times in a row, then boot correctly. After safe boot a reboot always...

Hi, It's been a while since I worked with win98 but I have a machine that I need to format and reinstall.. however, when I booted up from a floppy and tried it said the c: drive was compressed and to use DRVSPSACE to format it.. ?? (I have never used disk compression so know nothing about it.) I...

What type of problem are these? Why I am getting while doing a setup and later terminating without proceeding the setup. The Program setting a product of Samsung Easy Studio-Image Editor 1.0 Software, the Application name="Image Editor" bundled with "installshield" of the CompanyName=SAMSUNG...

Als ik naar windowsupdate ga krijg ik telkens aanmaning om de KB83989 update te installeren ondanks het feit dat dit reeds gebeurd is krijg ik steeds dezelfde melding. Bedankt bij voorbaat Paul

I am trying to install win98 SE, on a 95 based computer. I have fdisked, and formatted. but it seems that it doesnt clean everything off of there. I have a dir names WININST0 400...but I cant get rid of it. the computer doesnt boot, as it says "missing OS". I can begin the install of 98, and I get...

I am using Win98SE. In the past I used Windows Messaging to send faxes very successfully on Win95 however I cannot get it to work in 98 - I get errors all the time. I use Outlook 2000 'Internet Mail Only'. Any suggestions to a freeware application I should consider to send faxes? Thank you

I am trying to help my friend fix this boot problem in a PC running Windows 98SE even after all Critical and recommended Updates. I downloaded and installed from MS the file: 243199us8.exe with no joy. What Can I do next? Problem details: When the PC is 'cold booted' it hangs soon after Windows 98...

why all my computer's icons except desktop changed from multi colour to only black in colour? someone please help me to sovle this problem. thanks.

Turned on the computer today and it gets stuck when trying to load Windows. Restarted and it goes into safe mode so that I hope is a good sign. I defragged and restarted and still Windows will not load. I had this problem a few months back and then it just corrected itself. Some time after that,...

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My active desktop have a warning from ps gaurd that it show "my computer might be infected of the spy ware or adware!!!" Is that anyway to solve this problem, I have try many kind of virus scan but there no virus infected. Please help me to solve the problem,Thank

I installed a driver for an HP 3820. A month later I decided to add a 930C. I started the 930C installer executable and it seemed to go OK - at first. But as it went along it changed and ended up installing yet another 3820 driver. Named, of course, hp 3820 (2). Does the 3820 have to be...

Hi, I'm reinstalling 50 Windows 98 Second Edition (Spanish) machines and I'm preparing a "model" machine with all the critical updates and hotfixes available. I've found many hotfixes (45 aprox.) in English but no in Spanish. Is there any problem if I install this hotfixes in the machines? I...

Hi, I want to update a system from original 98 to 98SE using a (full version) 98SE install CD. Can I just run the setup on the CD from withing the existing Windows environment without destroying existing data and programs? Pretty sure I've done it that way numerous times before but it's been a few...

hey it's been a while reinstalling a pretty old pc like this dell gxi which doesnt have the option of booting from cd-rom in the bios. i've done it before twice a while back seem to have forgot. i wanted to know if i was maybe doing something wrong in the 98 boot-up disk. i used fdisk to set the...

I followed the steps that were supposed to put a program in Startup. It put it into Start - Programs (useless), but nothing appears in Msconfig - Startup. So how is it done if not according to the helps? Jim L -- Terrorist citizens and innocent citizens say exactly the same thing: "I'm...

Hi, I am reinstalling Win98 on a Toshiba laptop. Everything went fine until after having tried to install a VPN client (?), I get at each boot a message telling me that Rpess has made a illegal operation and must close. Is ther a way to correct this or do I need reinstall Windows again ?

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i am wondering if it is possible to run a windows 98 setup and tell it somehow which programs and features of windows i want installed in the operating system. where i have more choice than just (un)checking things in the proper area of setup. like choosing whether to install the help system, and...

Hello all, I am curious if this is at all possible. Basically what I want is to install Windows 98 SE onto a 1GB memory stick like it was a regular old hard drive. The workstation that the memory still will be used with will not have a hard disk, and will boot directly from the memory stick. The...