I have windows 95 on my computer right now but would like to put windows 98 on it. I do not have any idea what I need to do this. I do not know which windows 98 cd I would need to do thiis. Any suggestions?

I have just changed over from a dial up connection to a wireless network and most things are Ok ~ but not yet perfect. If I open Outlook express and do Send / Receive it trys to do so using a dial up connection even though I have removed it from the CONNECTIONS setting. However if I check my...

Background: Until about a year and a half ago I used a dialup connection to my office's Exchange Server. My laptop (Win98SE) paused during its (interminably long) bootup for me to enter a network password for that network. Well, we no longer use a dialup, that network is gone and I long ago...

Just installed an Ethernet card. Followed instructions to the letter. But, when the cable modem is plugged into the computer Windows 98 freezes during boot. If I leave the Ethernet cable unplugged, the computer boots just fine. But then, after plugging the cable back in, I'm not able to actually...

I have 2 HDs on my PC. I'm trying to install Win98SE on my Secondary HD but every time I try to I can never get my Primary Dive to then boot up without first disconnecting the Secondary HD.....I've just ordered Windows XP HE upgrade and Ideally I would like this on my Primary Drive and 98SE on...

I'm having two problems with Win 98SE which may or may not be related. I am trying to add network support. However when I go Control Panel ---network-----Add and then click either Client or Adapter or Protocol or Service either : i) nothing happens (ie do dialog box appears); or ii) a Dialog...

I understand that under windows xp, downgrade rights are included. How do I go about downgrading a machine from windows xp to windows 98se? How can I get the windows 98se media and a valid product key? Joel

I am trying to install Windows 98 SE on a 2.4 P4 Celeron, 512 meg memory, 40 gig hdd. (HP systems) (Same condition has occurred on 2 pc's that are the same.) Operating system will load and restart and get to the black screen saying (Continuing to load Windows, and stops there. have left it...

I know you've gone through this before with others, but I'm new to this group. I also know that you can have more than one OS on a computer, I just don't know how it's done. My current OS is Windows XP and I would like to add Windows 98 SE to my computer to use some gaming equipment that can't...

Hope this is the right ng, I'm not even sure if this is a win 98 problem! I'm using win98se with 640mb ram. Have just defragged all drives and on reboot get this error: Memory Manager not detected SB Live requires EMM386 or similar SB Live driver not loading The error was not there before defrag...

Every time when we try to install a new hardware to a version of Windows, Windows ask to put Windows CD into the CD drive and hit OK. The next message is that the installation program cannot find a certain driver file such as a *.vxd or alike while it is showing, for example, E: Win98 in the folder...

Hi there, Is the user account the same as a profile? I want to set up 2 different users so that when Win 98 starts up, it will have those users at the logon screen. But when I set up a second user, the second user had all of my stuff in their My Documents and even their Outlook Express email was...

I have firstly installed win98 to c:, then installed winxp in another partition to d:. Now I want to reinstall my win98 but remain my winxp. Previously after I reinstalled my win98, the master boot record cannot detect the winxp anymore and i have to reinstall winxp again too. So my question is:...

I just bought an Iomega external hard drive and danged if I can't get it to work. I followed the instructions to the letter, which weren't much -- "Put in the CD. Run start.exe. Reboot. Plug in the AC to the drive. Connect the USB cable to the computer." Hit don't work. The USB is from a card. ...

Hi, I'm having problems with a Pentium-266/98MB RAM booting Win98. It never reaches the desktop and freezes in the Win 98 logo screen with the blue progress bar beneath. Upon restarting it will sometimes offer a menu offering several options to boot. I've tried two: 1) Safe mode. Upon entering I...

I have an older laptop that I was given and it had Win 95 it worked. It crahed one day and I have Win 98 SE on Disk and the boot up disk and I loaded Windows partially through the boot up disk but It won't fully load I know how to get windows installed but the problem I have is I have no CD-Rom...

I went to try connecting to a network and found that, according to Microsoft's own list, quite a few files are missing from my W98SE CD. Yes, it's a Microsoft disk with the product key and all. Any suggestions what I can do about this? Jim L

had win 98se reloaded by microsoft(on phone) with critical updates intact. windows media player upgrade was not. had to re-download. question?-did reload of windows reload some old file versions? such as: media player2 4.10.1998(is archived) also found checked certificate manager, found lots...

When I try and start windows 98 second edition I get the following error message: Explorer: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor. If i click DetailsI get the following EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in...

Hi, My problem was that after reinstalling Wins 98 edition 1 with the product key, I was prompted to "Select user name" and "password". The pop up window was titled "Enter Password". HOwever, there wasn't any user name for me to select and clicking at the password text box doesn't allow to type...