I find that I have a folder for 'windows' and in it is another folder called 'windows' and the first one has a folder called 'system' and in it is another folder called 'system'- I believe somehow an attempted reinstall ended with a copy of old installed files left in sub-folders to the main...

I'd like to completely expand all the CAB files on a WIn98 distro CD. What's the best way to do it ? Thanks -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m

I'm reinstallin w/98SE on an old IBM Aptiva. The drivers don't seem to be on 98SE disk. The machine was running 98SE decently, so somewhere there's a driver that works. The machine is an IBM Aptiva model 2156 HWinfo says it's got a SiS 86c201 VGA Chipset on themotherboard. Can someone tell me...

I'm reinstalling w/98 on an Aptiva mod 2156 system. The VGA drivers don't seem to be on the 98SE distro. The IBM download site has no VGA drivers, for 98, or 95 for that matter, for this machine. The machine was running 98SE with good video (but otherwise screwed up) before I reisnatlled, so VGA...

I have a video card that I can only find drivers for 95, and NT3.51/NT4. I guess they never figured out the PnP thing. Is there any chance one of these drivers wil work on a 98SE system ? Thanks --

It's w/98SE. Can I hide the MSIE icon on the desktop ? -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m

I have Win 98SE with User profiles enabled. Recently, I have had problems with the Profiles not working correctly. The most recent occasion was that the PC has to all intents and purposes lost the profile of a particular user. When you logon using the name and password of the user in question,...

I am shortly going to upgrade my PC from 512k to 1 meg of RAM. I know about the vcache setting and will create that when necessary. However, I set the Virtual Memory manually as I have been advised in the past that this is the best thing to do. At present both options are set to 512k (520) to...

X posted. 2nd attempt as the first time I left the header off and it hasn't appeared! I recently purchased additional RAM for my system. The existing was 2x256k and for the remaining slot I bought 512k.(All the same spec/supplier/manufacturer). The system has been stable for some time so I added...

Having had one failure of trying to do this, I am taking this stage by stage this time round. I modified VCACHE using the edit function in MSCONFIG for the system.ini. The change worked but when I go back in and read it, just before the statement MaxFileCache=512000 there is now a graphic like a...

I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 laptop that I keep as an emergency backup for internet access in case the main machine falls over. I power it up on a regular basis to ensure all is OK. However, I have noticed that the battery indicator icon that used to reside in the lower right tool...

Is it possible to access wherever Scandisk stores its information on bad areas of disks to delete that information? I suspect that when I bought a new hard disk a little while ago and transferred all my data to it, the copy program I was using caused a write error to one area of my new...

I have a problem with the latest engine ( 5.0.00 ) running on my PC. I have posted on the McAfee forum but the responses either don't happen or appear not to address the problem. I need to check some files/registry entries with others running the same version because I think McAfee have a problem....

In trying to resolve some problems on my Win 98 SE machine, on more than one occasion I have been advised to check the contents of the "Hosts" file. Therein lies the problem, I don't have one! Should there always be a Hosts file or only in some instances. Thanks Alan

Sometime in the past something has happened to the "Admin Rights" function in my Registry. As a result, I can no longer update to recent BTYahoo! software as it aborts with an Admin Rights error message. Does anyone know how to restore these rights, what element of Windows controls them and...

I downloaded a critical windows 98 update yesterday and, when rebooting, got the message "While initializing device CONFIGMG: Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer" I restarted the PC which will now only start in safe mode. Apparently this problem is well known to Microsoft...

I just opened my programs list to load the cd player and found that the entire accessories listing had disappeared. The programs appear to still be accessible from the run line (at least those I can find such as system information), but a)I'm baffled as to how the listing got lost and b)I'd like...

I have an old laptop running Windows 98 First Edition that I have been asked to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition. I have the full program install CD for the Windows 98 Second Edition. Can I do an upgrade from this disk or will everything come crashing down? Any tricks or "got-cha's"?

-- 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...

Try stretching the small window to full size. (Do not use Maximize) Ensure that window is the last one closed and IE should remember the size next time. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems In microsoft.public.win98.setup, wrote: