Ok I am not a PC person mostly Mac. What is fdisk for? I thought it was for wiping the disk clean before a format. I.E. like erasing a piece of paper and the format is putting the lines on the page ready to fill (Macs call it initialization and then format). So is fdisk just for partitioning? Is...

Boy windows is really complicated that's a rant from a Mac person where live is much easier! Ok for give me PC people. I got a Compaq computer with what I assume was a windows 98 OEM disk the book has Compaq printed on it but looks like other windows manuals other than that and does not have OEM in...

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-- I am not having any luck getting Win 98 SE to identify this board and assign proper resources etc. In fact, the operating system ignores it and gives me a blue screen of death saying I have to reload the operating system to recover damaged files. This happened twice !! The board is the AVI...

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff) I did the upgrade from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd & msn32.dll. So...

I am with a laptop that doesn't boot up fully, rather it attempts to re-install Windows XP. It gets to a point where it says insert XP CD...and click ok. When I click ok, it shows a dialog box with the letter 'y' repeating accross d input box, as if being typed or pressed on d keyboard. This...

I've a portable (HP Pavilion dv5000) where I need a dual boot with win98se. I have 2 problems: - Which video driver should I use to have a resolution of 800 x 600? My video card is NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 7400. - When I shut down the computer, it is stuch with a screen "windows is shutting down". I...

I have a 250 gig hard drive with windows xp in it and then I have a 40 gig hard drive with windows 98 in it. when I try to boot into the windows 98 I get the following msg: "Insufficient memory to initialize windows Quit one or more memory - resident programs or remove unneccsary utilities from...

How do I erase a hard drive completely to install another operating system? From Windows ME to Windows XP Pro. The problem is that as soon as I turn the computer on it shows me a meassage that says, "the files on this drive have been corrupted" and it does not let me in to the operating system....

I tried an experiment and added a static arp entry for my router and my other computer on my Windows 98SE computer. It worked, but after I turned the computer off for the night, the next day the entries were gone. The next day I did the same thing and this morning again the arp only has a...

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Hi, everybody. I am not that computer literate so please put your answers in lame mans terms ,okay. Well, when i turn on my laptop. It shows all of this stuff and then goes to say that "this file is corrupted or missing: command.com" What should I do?

My PC with Win98SE unknownly deleted msmincho.ttc font file, probably anti-virus software. Then I tried to re-install the font file but PC never allows it, automatically deleted again. How can I do? M.M.

Strange problem just came up on my WIN98ME OS. When I 'run>msinfo32>tools>internet explorer repair tool> "NOTHING!" As in no dialog box comes up, just a quick flash as though something SHOULD HAVE come up...and then NOTHING. I actually am not quite sure where to start looking...

Am looking for Windows 98SE setup options. I know there are some undocumented options, but I dont know the keys for them other than what setup/? gives. Any help appreciated.... Lazarus

Does restarting in DOS mode create a RAM Disk, where the DOS files are placed? I'm asking this because I seem to remember working on a notebook without a Floppy or a CD drive many years ago. I installed Windows 98 this way: 1. Used a cable to transfer Partition Magic from my computer to the...

I understand that windows 95 was a long time ago but would there be someone out there willing to help me through installing windows 95 on an old Compaq LTS 5400 laptop?

Greetings: I've been using Win98SE and given my situation, I really don't want to upgrade to XP or whatever. I've been using Norton Antivirus 2001 but now the program tells me I have to purchase a newer version. When I purchased the newer version, I found it extremely slow (my computer is a...

Any advice for this problem. My trusty W98se install is noticably slower with 500 Mb of memory installed as 2-256 Mb sticks than it is w/386 Mb of memory. 1-256 Mb and 1-128 Mb stick. All memory is identical Micron P133 Cl 2.

Hi, I'm having problems with name resolution. Yes, I'm pointing to a valid DNS server. When I enter the IP address in the address line for IE6 SP1, it throws an error (C000005) and closes down. Setup: Win98 SE, IE6 SP1 From what I understand, there has been an error during the install of an...