Hello all,, Going to go deep into a computers ability regarding the 'desktop' and its capabilities. How much information and how many icons can a desktop cope with? How close together can they be? (this includes the fact that descriptions of the icons are attached to the icons themselves) Can this...

Normally I would not get into this debate. People have asked for court cases as prove. According to this site. They have court cases as prove. (Sorry if duplicate post) On this page they claim their software is genuine and even give the Microsoft piracy address.

Recently Windows Explorer opens irregularly, with a dialog box indicating that there is no Internet connection available and halts local browsing of files until this dialog box is closed. No dial-up connection has been made, yet Windows Explorer apparently seeks one before allowing access to...

A few days ago there was interesting thread discussing what System Resources are. A couple of posters pointed out that System Resources, while it is a special type of memory, isn't the same as RAM. However, no one, as far as I could tell, said what is the relationship, if any, between SR and...

I bought a brand spanking new PC last week, which came installed with Windows XP. I've been running 98 for the last few years and was happy with it, but some software I use will reportedly no longer run under Win98 in its next version. The problem is the system has now crashed and for reasons I...

OK, I finally got the Comcast Cable Internet connection set up and working, by using the USB port. (I tried installing several a few PCI network cards as suggested, and couldn't get any of them to work (even had a few blue screens along the way, relating to some VFAT issues, and perhaps some...

1 About Usenet 1.1 What is Usenet? Usenet is a distributed network which means that the submitted information is always available via the fast internet connections from your local Usenet Provider. Usenet offers the ability to efficiently exchange information among all other Usenet users around...

Hi. Reposted in a different way and trying to contain it to one issue: W98se 2.0 GHz P4 40 GB HD-D (near full) 1 GB Sdram PC will not Shutdown or Restart. Must use PC Power off button. PC does shutdown and will restart if I do so by using Safe Mode.

After shifting my two PC's with Win XP SP3 Home Edition to an office nearby, I am left with a HP Pavilion pre-loaded with Win 98SE. I formatted the hard disk and reinstalled the OS using the Recovery CD. With assistance from Robear Dyer, I managed to upgrade I.E. from 5.0 to 6.0! I have a...

Hi guys, My computer has just done the oddest thing(s). While in n/g it just froze; wouldnt let me ctrl+alt+del either. Since then I have re-booted and run all obvious adaware and virus scans etc. I went to defrag too and it really spat the dummy there. First it sort of stopped then the screen...

Yet another botnet is hacked from the outside, this one uses the boot record/MBR to store the hack to take over Windows computers. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/31/torpig_banking_trojan/ One Sinowal Trojan + One Gang = Hundreds of Thousands of Compromised...

OS: Windows 98 Version: 5.0 Program: Juno Internet Platnium Error: "Juno has encountered a technical problem that makes it necessary to shut the program down...." and after going through the riggamarole, "JUNO caused an invalid page fault in module JCORE.DLL @

Subject: Everest Report Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT From: ms Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion ms wrote in : "PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364 @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

This is Firefox 2.0.0.20. I typically have many Firefox instances or windows open at any one time (5 to 10 maybe). I tend to open a link "in a new window" instead of opening in a new tab or just following the link in the same window. I do this because it's faster to close the new instance or...

There are postings on this group from someone purporting to be "MEB". They generally quote large chunks (or all) of the post they are following up, contain rants, talk a LOT like THIS with lots of WORDS in CAPITALS (or occasionally in *asterisks* or other ways OF emphasiSING). About every three...

Recently I've been battling with Explorer invalid page faults in module unknown at 0096:xxxxxxxx module KERNEL32.DLL at 0197:bff9dc19 (recently) 0197:bff7b9f5 These can occur as often as every few minutes, sometimes in the very process of cleaning up after the last event. This behaviour...

I am trying to install Win98 onto a flash drive (in my case 8 GB flash) as detailed he https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qd7cDbtwj4 I get as far as the "Microsoft ScanDisk" screen during installation of '98 onto the flash drive, but then I keep getting hanging during the "directory...

RTS wrote (in the basically defunct windows ME newsgroup): Greetings Group. I'm re-installing ME on an old laptop for some legacy software. And was wondering if there any current anti-virus programs that will still work on ME.. I've answered you in the past when you've asked this same...

Hi gang... (The complaints and comments in this post apply to FFox ver 1.8.1.20 since I am still using 98SELite.) I can hardly believe I'm doing this, but I am going to be using FFox a lot because while Opera is supremely configurable and intelligently designed and I have been using it for...

Hi everyone, not sure if the subject of this thread is a good way to describe what I = want to do, but here it is. Basically I wish to convert several (many) = files from WordPerfect format to T602 format. For this, I have a small = utility "pre602.exe" which functions in this way: PRE602.EXE ...