HELLO ALL. I AM HAVING A PROBELM INSTALLING AN OPERATING SYSTEM BACK ON TO A DELL 4600I. IT HAD WIN XP AND LOCKED UP AS SOON AS IT GOT TO ADMINISTRATIVE LOGIN. I FDISKED AND FORMATTED THE HARD DRIVE THROUGH DOS. I AM TRYING TO GET WIN 98 TO RUN ON IT, HOWEVER, IT INSTALLS WIN 98 AND THEN THE NORMAL...

Win 98 on an Acer laptop that has been fine. Recently d'loaded a couple of new ISP's to try and had to make some dial up connections also. Finally found an ISP that I could get NG's from. However now the laptop is unable to browse the Web. I can connect but no browsing allowed. When I boot up I get...

New symptom after years of working ok. Screen Save settings set to turn of monitor after 20 mins, turn odd hard disks NEVER. After several hours alone pc is locked tight and will not awake to any key strokes. Big Red Switch time. Why is that?

Just installed Win98SE on a new harddrive in an old machine. FIC MoBo, K6 processor, 196MB ram, Voodoo3 PCI graphics, Creative CD and BENQ DVD. Windows98 opening screen appears and program starts to load (the pointer and the hour glass visible), but then hangs/freezes prior to fully...

Can I have your thinking on "PnP OS Yes/No" option setting in bios please. I got to recently thinking about this because this evening I prodded the power up button on my machine and got "thrown" into my bios settings because they'd got lost, ( I will replace my button battery ...my, my, doesn't...

My monitor is not displaying anything and the light on it keeps on flashing instead of stable. Desktop(CPU) itself seems to be working fine. thanks for any help.

When I turn my computer on, I get the following error messages: The following file is missing or corrupted C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE "error in config.sys on line 2" "VMM32.VXD is required to run Windows If this file is not in your PATH you may need to reinstall Windows" and then I get the C:\ My only...

After downloading and applying the latest update to Windows 98 SE and Internet Explorer 6 SP1 last night, computer will not boot up. I receive the following: Error starting program A required file, C:\windows\system\SHLWAPI.dll not found. Error loading explorer.exe. You must reinstall...

Since I've my Hard Drive reformatted the Buttons on the keyboard do not respond. I'm using Windows 98SE. I tried down loading the file version 2.1, but this failed. HELP!!

Hello All I am trying to write an Auto-It script that opens and manipulates the "Keyboard" function in Control Panel. Is there a "RUN" function for the items in Control Panel .When I right-click them and select properties, I don't see a target or name.exe or anything. I bet I'm missing...

I'm trying to install a pci usb card in an HP vectra PI 133. when i boot windows 98se up with the card installed it detects it and prompts for the drivers. i choose the defaults for the locations of the drivers and it uses the generic usb.inf file from windows. then i get a blue screen reporting...

when i installed win98se it worked fine until when i looked at my computer and it had crappy graphics and i was missing some adaptor. when it tryed intalling a drive it said insert win98se CD-ROM but it was already inserted. and it said it need some framebuf.drv so it could work, o also the...

Folks, I've finally gotten around to putting my two longest and most = frequently posted "blurbs" on my own site. This after Google's Groups = beta mangled it's archive. Here they a "Clean Boot--What it is and why you need...

Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem.

I will try to upgrade my Win 98SE machine to a win 2000 Professional using the Upgrade option during installation... What are the chances that I will not have to reinstall my existing Applications (OfficeXp,autocad,etc...) and my data files (on a different partiton) will not be affectd?

I was having a variety of problems which I attributed to spyware. I couldn't get rid of it myself, so I hired a guy to clean up the system. The computer was just returned to me and so far the problems seem to be gone. However, he unwittingly created a problem and doesn't know how to fix it....

Think I need a genius on this one! There are a multitude of Shockwave Flash files on my PC (*.swf). Would like to be able to view them but don't know how! SW files play fine when encountered on a web site (in IE 5.5) or when called upon by the installed encyclopedia software, but how can I...

For some reason when I tried to do Scandisk and Defragment on a Windows 98 machine they will only work in the safe mode. I do them about every two weeks, worked fine last time. It is my daughters computer but everything seems OK I ran virus scan and Spybot. All the programs run fine. Any...

I don't know how to explain this one, but here goes. I am running windows 98 second edition. When I open an application such as internet explorer or microsoft excel, normally an icon is displayed at the botton of the screen for each application that is opened and running. The icons are...

Hi, I have Win 98SE installed and have been using it for years, and will continue to do so for as long a I can. However, to enable compatibility with my work/office environment I will need to install Win XP. My thoughts were to buy a new Hard Drive with and OEM version of XP. Install this in my...