Hi from Oz (aust) Ron, I just come from your site after mulling through the tips etc.......cool stuff! Couple of questions if you dont mind. 1)in the tip on taking away the text from desktop shortcuts, you say to type in 0160 then hit enter, and then to do it again using alt key 0160...

I can't get win98 to start even in safe mode because it says "Invalid page fault at explorer.exe ..." At the C:\windows directory I see an explorer.exe file with 180,224 bytes. When I try to edit the file or rename it the computer says "File not found". I can find every other file that I see in...

Hi, all I recently bought a JetFlash 256MB (well, I saw my colleague with one, and I liked it). However, my home computer has failed to recognise it, even after proper installation of the driver from the CD-ROM. There was no problem with my work computer, which runs the Windows 2000 system. In...

I somehow got a glitch in my computer. Anyone need a challenge ? :) Because I have a folder named C:\windows\temp\_ISTMP45.DIR I can't do any updates for maintenance. I can't check for errors on the HD

Hi, I was wondering how you get Win98 SE to roll back to the last known safe configuration. There is some valuable data that I need to retrieve, but it is in a profile folder. Windows has been reinstalled and all profiles have been lost. Thanks in advance. Kev

Hi, i have installed windows 98 on a presario 1710sb laptop 200mmx 96 meg. I used a startup up floppy and reformatted the hard drive did a fresh install of 98. The cd works from the dos setup command but when windows first runs the cdrom does not show up and a lot of the drivers that require the...

I installed a slaved 80gig HD because the primary HD had gotten to small. Win 98 recognizes C drive and the new D drive but but does not recognize the now e and f cdrom and cd/rw. The two cds are connected directly to the motherboard (Gateway).

Hi, "*.RBO" is known as a worm extension. When I type in "*.RBO" to find files with this extension I get no files found eventhough there are many files with that extension. Thanks AJS

I had a working cdrw in one machine and installed it in another. Windows does not recognize the burner as a burner but as a cdrom. I have a 2nd cdrom and it works fine. Now my cdrw is not listed under my computer at all. What can I do to resolve my problem?

I have recently reformatted wndws2000 back to wndws98. I have on floppy disk copies of jpegs/gifs from another wndws98. They loaded fine when pc I have now was a wndws2000. But now, I get (A)inaccessible. I go to Properties, it says (A) Drive is full. I know thats rubbish 'cause it worked before...

In win98se "my computer" lists drives c: and d:. They have the same names. The d: drive seems to be a copy or mirror of c:. There is no second hard drive in the computer. In "safe mode" only the C; drive is displayed. This computer also freezes shortly after starting windows in normal mode. Any...

Hallo, google says: Max. IDE-Harddisk is 137 GB is there someone, who knows how big an SCSI Disk under Win98 could be? sorry, but my english is not perfect. Werner

All right, I have a problem obviously. Today, I made an attempt with=20 partition magic to merge two partitions, my C (active partition) and my = d=20 drive which just had some music on it. Well during it, the plug on my = comp=20 was pulled, and after restarting i got a invalid system disk. so i...

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I get asked for a password for networking on boot-up. How can I get rid of this?

In C:windows, I find that I have many (too many to count) files with names like "fffe062e-[8185A901-88DD-11D8-9673-00A02481D1EC}"; when I click properties, they show as TMP files. can I delete them?

I need to creat a W98 startup disk for another PC and I can't seem to find the right place to download it. Where can I go? Thank You Jack Saba

new user,i upgraded win95 to win98 to support dsl.98 cd said i should format my hard drive .i deleted partition and then reinstalled new partition.next i formatted c drive .i belive it said something along the lines of hard disk large enough to do in two parts.ran 98 setup at the end windows would...

Cannot find driver to download to use new 256 Jump Drive with Windows 98 SE

I am running 98SE and need to reformat the hard drive. I have copied many of the files and folders off onto CD disks. After formatting and then copying the files back to the reformatted hard drive, they ALL show read-only attr ibutes. Some files need to be open for writing while others should,...