W98SE I run a clean system, very few startup programs. A cold boot each morning. Starting yesterday, at bootup, when the desktop appears, and during loading of my several system tray programs, the Open With screen shows, have to cancel to continue loading my programs. There was no particular issue...

Hi newsgroup, Is it possible to configure the Common File Dialog in Windows, maybe Registry, so that it always starts in Detail view? Mine, and most likely yours, always starts in List view, which is somewhat troublesome, since I often select the last edited file by date, and date is only part of...

I have a machine with win98(2nd) and I am trying to install Symantec client security v2.0 When i start the install it comes up with the following error "Error-1723. There is a problem with this windows installer package. A Dll required for this install to complete could not be found" I have...

Hi, I'm using a third party data entry program and the font size on the buttons have changed. I spoke to the program supplier and they said the font on the buttons is set by windows and I would need to change it in windows. I have looked in "Display Properties" and "Appearance" windows and can't...

I am using Win 98. I have just tried to install Norton Anti Virus over the top of Anti Virus 2004 using their automatic installation proceedure. I get part way through the process and then the message "The setup was unable to update the MSI System component" appears and it refers me to Microsoft...

After I installed Windows Media Player 9 on my computer, I was asked to restart it. Now that I've done that, I get an error evey time I try to re-start it. "Load Error! Press a key to reboot..." Nothing seems to work so far. I don't have any Win98 boot/install disks, ant the Compaq QuickRestore...

Hello I have established a home network between my two computers. I can do file sharing but I can not use the printer at the machine with XP. It says "Printer is offline " and "User Intervention required". Computers use: Windows XP (printer) Windows 98 SE Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I added (Trend Micro) PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 to my Windows 98 computer with P2-350 processor and 192 MB of RAM. It's slow to start and the slowness increases with other apps open. Previously, it could also experience slowness when it had McAfee Internet Security 6.0. (MIS 6.0's minimum...

My mother-in-law was having problems with her resolution settings and decided the way to solve the problem was with her recovery disk. Now it is asking her for a code (I presume it is the Windows98 cd code), but she no longer has that disk. What can I do to help her?

It sounds like a hardware, problem. I am adding 98 newsgroup so the experts there can help. "Joe 1" wrote in message ... : The PC was "new" as of July 2004 with not much added except a SCSI interface : in a...

When you run the command promt under win98SE/me/2000/XP, you get an option to select which font to use. How can I ADD more fonts to that selection? The one I need is not offered. I can ADD fonts that will be used when printing, but, these new fonts don't show up as options for the DOS box. Thanks,...

Resubmiting due to spelling error in "Subject"! - Some of the desktop icons have little white shortcut overlay arrows on the bottom left. Tweak UI does not eliminate them as it should. I had this problem before and found a solution from MS Knowlege Base but now my search does not turn up...

hi, I haveWin98SE and I cannot start WMP. how do I uninstall and reinstall WMP. It is not listed in Add/Remove program list. Thanks -divi

I am using windows 98se. At startup there is a microsoft networking titled window. There is my name there(which i have used when I was registering) and wants a password. I did not set up anything like this and I want to get rid of this pop up window. I did not enter any password click ok and than I...

When my window 98 starts in normal mode, it gives out the following message. "It's now safe to turn off your computer " I tried to use safe mode, but it got blue screen and gave out some error message. I ran scandisk and it has no error.

I just checked the daily overnight run of my-eTrust AV and there were two items which failed the scan with no comment or recommendation for eliminating them. They were not there on the previous night's scan. I Googled them and found that they are, or may be Trojans. I have tried to delete or...

When I'm burning cd's in Real Player 10 Plus, I get a runtime error message while the files are being converted to mp3 format. Can anyone help???????

I'm running Win 98SE. Can you obtain a utility that allows you to select either a particular folder or file and to set a password? All I want to do is have password control over selected folder(s)or files(s). TIA.

All of a sudden I am getting an error message telling me "MSSOAP is not correctly installed on this machine". How do I go about reinstalling MSSOAP?

In the advanced MS-DOS settings I am allowed to let MS-DOS have Direct Access to Windows. What are the advantages and disadvantages to giving MS-DOS this capability. It is the fourth option in the advanced configuration settings. The other three are already checked. Thanks in advance for your...