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Auto Play by wayne bansemer
How do I set my computer to auto play a program CD? Thank-you
August 23rd 04 04:19 AM
by glee Go to last post
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Automatic display of files following start up. by Barry A Smith
I have just reformatted my HDD and reloaded all my applications, including NORTON ANTI VIRUS 2003 PROFESSIONAL EDITION. I run W98se and on start up now the Norton Anti Virus program folder (with the directory containing all its files) is displayed after My Desktop has finished loading. Then...
July 16th 05 06:37 PM
by GaryH Go to last post
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Availability of Complete Version Window's 98 by Tom C.
I have '95-vintage Sony machine w/300 Meg processor. Machine came equipped with Window's 95 and later upgraded to Window's 98. Machine's been used on internet by grandchildren and has been greatly slowed down with lots of label pop-ups. Would like to dump hard drive and start over. Is full...
June 29th 04 05:13 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Backing up My Documents on a floppy disk by dummy
How do I back up My Documents on a floppy disk? I tried to do this with each title, but found I nothing on my disk after I was done. Help!!
August 12th 04 11:03 PM
by Paul Go to last post
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backup disk? by Rox
How do i create a backup disk of my files when the backup option does'nt seem to work or respond?It tells me this option is not installed and wont let me activate it.I am running windows 98 and i dont have a disk for windows 98 either........help.....please......
June 19th 04 07:21 PM
by Bert Kinney Go to last post
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backup disks by tom
i am wanting to make a set of syustem backup floppies for and old win 98 laptop i need to know how to do that and if it can be done from the gui ior needs to be dione from the dos prompt and if frm the dos prompt the command to do that
September 5th 04 02:19 AM
by philo Go to last post
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backup error message by dmark83
While trying to restore my old backed up files, stored on a cd, the win98 backup wizard starts, reads and locates the file then after a few secounds gives me an error message "The current media does not contain any backup sets. The operation will be canceled" I looked everywhere in Microsoft for...
February 1st 05 03:12 AM
by SFB - KB3MM Go to last post
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backup won't by Rick Merrill
win xp pro, "How to Back Up Files and Folders Note You must have permissions as an administrator or as a backup operator on your computer to back up files and folders. Also, backup operators and administrators can back up and restore encrypted files and folders without decrypting the files or...
September 27th 04 10:29 PM
by Rick Merrill Go to last post
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backup.lnk missing by Paul
I was attempting to do a backup and after going to accessoriessystems toolsbackup, I get a message stating that the backup.lnk is missing. I tried to find the file and could not. 1. Where did it go? 2. Can I restore the file? 3. Is there another way to backup files to a CD-R? Thanks
November 30th 04 11:34 PM
by Don Phillipson Go to last post
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Bad Cluster by bartman
Hi, I recently got told by my OS (Windows 98) that I have a few bad/damaged clusters on my hard drive. I've run Scandisk throughly and told Scandisk to fix any errors however they're still there, I've also ran Disk Defragmenter. My PC now runs much slower than usual and startup takes a long...
January 4th 07 12:17 AM
by Ron Martell Go to last post
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Bad Crash by Jeanne
My husband was transferring large files from his laptop to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to do a SYS C:, but...
September 30th 04 11:32 AM
by ixa Go to last post
6 1,130
Bad Hard drive or doing something wrong? by DJW
I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on ebay. I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made from a download from their site. All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it...
November 30th 06 03:53 PM
by Babs Go to last post
4 2,351
bad sectors by archana
I have windows 98 OS.When i switch on my sysytem,the scandisk starts automatically and detects bad sectors in the c drive.should the bad sectors be compulsorily removed.if so how?kindly give me suggestions. added to this,the sysytem processing speed has also gone down.when i try to defragment,after...
September 20th 04 04:34 AM
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Bare HD by me
I have a bare deskstar 80gb. what is the best way to get my bios to see it so i can then format etc. my os is wind98. currently when i have it plugged up during startup, my pc freezes when detecting what is in that slot (secondary master).
July 14th 04 11:34 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Beeps when copying from one fixed drive to another fixed drive by Brent
I have a laptop with Windows 98. It has 3 seperate partitions as it will not support a hard drive larger than 2 GB. I have tried to copy files from one drive partition to another and the computer speaker will beep and the file will not even attempt to copy or move. I have an external drive and I...
September 12th 05 09:16 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
3 1,244
Best Non-Bloatware Application Versions for PIII 600MHz laptop? by Z
Hi, I have recently been gifted a Compaq M300. It's super thin and light but only a PIII 600MHz machine, I plan to put the max memory in it (I think 128+256MB) to improve things as much as possible. Also plan to increase HDD to about 30GB (any problems with doing this/ will partioning make...
October 4th 04 01:28 PM
by Steven Burn Go to last post
8 1,082
Best Partition magic / Drive Image successors? by 1966olds
Hi, Running Windows XP (SP2) and still using Partition Magic 7.0 (with an update or two) and Drive Image 2002. No problems yet, but I realize eventually I'll need to jump to another product. I'd like to know, if possible, consensus as to best current mainstream replacement for both. I know...
November 26th 06 02:35 AM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Big disks for Win 98 SE by
I have some PCs running 98SE and NT4. Is it OK to add a 40Gb disk as the slave of the existing master 4Gb disk already in that machine? I want to know for both OSes. Many thanks.
July 27th 04 07:41 PM
by Ron Martell Go to last post
2 1,554
Blue Screen Error - Voltrack (04) by AJniet
Any lead would help.
August 13th 04 04:29 AM
by AJniet Go to last post
2 1,006
Blue screen message. by Narada
Error has occured atOE at0028:c2AB8A42,press any key to continue etc.
June 2nd 04 02:53 PM
by Narada Go to last post
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