A Compaq can boot into Safe Mode but hangs (desktop wallpaper but no icons; no bar across the bottom; keyboard, including Start Button has no effect) if attempting boot into Normal Mode. Can a virus or other "malware" be the cause? I'll try editing the Registry at "Run", "Run Once", etc., to see...

She is in for problems and added expenses--see this web site for details: http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm If she wants to dual boot W2K, the easy way is to use a boot manager and partitioning program such as: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it...

Does anyone have any idea how to delete the windows 823559 update? BeLarc Advisor says I need to reinstall the update. I think I've been installing this particular update monthly for the last year or two. I suppose that means that it is not installing properly? I've noticed from searching on the...

i'm running windows 98se but everytime i load my computer and try to run a program it stops responding and all i can do is bring up the task manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then i have to restart the system. please can somebody help???

Hi Does anyone know why Blue Screens of Death occur in Windows 98? Also why does Invalid Page Faults and General Protection Faults occur in Windows 98? Please reply soon. Thanks.

Does anyone have any idea how to delete the windows 823559 update? BeLarc Advisor says I need to reinstall the update. I think I've been installing this particular update monthly for the last year or two. I suppose that means that it is not installing properly? I've noticed from searching on...

i'm running windows 98se but everytime i load my computer and try to run a program it stops responding and all i can do is bring up the task manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then i have to restart the system. please can somebody help???

Hi Does anyone know why Blue Screens of Death occur in Windows 98? Also why does Invalid Page Faults and General Protection Faults occur in Windows 98? Please reply soon. Thanks.

Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been acting very slow – the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System,...

I just went from dial-up to DSL and with dial-up I used System Monitor Dial-Up Adapter, Bytes Received/Second. What do I use for DSL? Thanks Johnny

I'm a firm believer in having as few processes running to get the best possible system performance. One of the processes I have stopped from running is the clock process which normally is displayed in the task bar. To get the clock to appear whenever I want, I used to run a shortcut with the...

I'm a firm believer in having as few processes running to get the best possible system performance. One of the processes I have stopped from running is the clock process which normally is displayed in the task bar. To get the clock to appear whenever I want, I used to run a shortcut with the...

Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been acting very slow – the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System,...

After performing a disk defrag, I started getting the following error on Startup of Win 98. "MSVCP60.DLL Link to missing export MSVCRT.DLL:__lc_collate_cp." I was able to repair Two programs, IE and Print Shop. This error seems to be generated when AVG 7.0 (Grisoft virus program) starts...

Our computer is sounding sick lately and we keep getting a fatal exception error OE has occurred @ 0028:C0027F8B in VXD NTKERN(01) + 00006617. We also get another error after having our computer on for about an hour that I read could possibly be an overheating issue. Are these two related? If...

After performing a disk defrag, I started getting the following error on Startup of Win 98. "MSVCP60.DLL Link to missing export MSVCRT.DLL:__lc_collate_cp." I was able to repair Two programs, IE and Print Shop. This error seems to be generated when AVG 7.0 (Grisoft virus program) starts...

Hello everyone, I need help bad! my computer was running on windows 98 without any problems, I decided to upgrade to windows me; everything was working well after that. Then a friend of mine’s gave me his windows xp cd and I tried upgrading windows me to xp but the process stalled almost at the...

I have found that I am no longer able to shut down windows and have it restart in Dos. (i.e.Go to start, shutdown,select restart in DOS). In other respects Windows appears to be operating normally. I am using Win98SE with SP1 and all security updates installed. It use to provide a shut down...

Our computer is sounding sick lately and we keep getting a fatal exception error OE has occurred @ 0028:C0027F8B in VXD NTKERN(01) + 00006617. We also get another error after having our computer on for about an hour that I read could possibly be an overheating issue. Are these two related? If...

Hello everyone, I need help bad! my computer was running on windows 98 without any problems, I decided to upgrade to windows me; everything was working well after that. Then a friend of mine’s gave me his windows xp cd and I tried upgrading windows me to xp but the process stalled almost at...