have installed GE small speakers to replace old ones on computer. now get no sound when online, Compaq says it is a software provlem . have installed the speakers correctly. does play sound when music disk is put in for a test

The "Accessories" folder containing shortcuts to System Tools, Notepad, etc., has disappeared from my Startup Menu. I do prune the Startup Menu occasionally, since unnecessary items tend to sneak in there when adding or re-installing programs. So I MIGHT have actually deleted it carelessly,...

When I get email attachments that have the blue e icon or attachments that the icon looks like a sheet of paper with writing on it, I can not read it. any suggestions? I have a compaq computer with windows 98. I can read attachments that have the windows icon, but nothing else in text form. I...

Help! ever since my son went into one of those gaming cheat sites i cannot open my computer,recycle bin, windows explorer or any new folder i create. I ran adaware, norton, scandisc and even formatted!!! it worked for 2 days but then came back. any help on this one??

problem with powerbook G4 any thoughts on a good group to ask? thks

Hello Initially I was going to post about opening IE....the only way I can open an IE window without an illegal operation / closing window message is to click on the inbox email link in MSN Messenger. My quick launch link and my desktop icon link both result in the following message: IEXPLORE...

i have windows 98 on my computer and i can't get the maintenance to work , and i was wondering if there was a download or someway i could get it to work again , or what i needed to do ?? any help appreciated !

HI. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me out with this issue. My old computer had Windows 98 SE. My daughter is now using the computer and has been trying to download some SIMS items to put on her computer. Everytime she tries to run it, it says WINWORD.EXE file is not there. I did...

I have a notebook travelmate 520 , the ide channel is damage, i connect a USB hard drive and i want to install win98. I found the right DOS driver and map the USB hard drive to C:\ I start the windows installation (Windows ask me the driver of the external device?) After this start the hardware...

This message was posted to the Win98 PnP board but I haven't had any answers there. Maybe someone here can help. I have a Windows SE system that seems to have lost the USB ports and the device manager shows the error message in the subject for the USB Root Hub devices. Microsoft Knowledge Base...

I have 40,000 or so postage stamp images in approx 200 folders If I select a sub-set through the "Find" option in Windows Can I copy the resultant images to an independent file? eg: I recently searched for "Venus" and required the 6 images plonked in a separate folder. Thanks for any...

I cannot get online all of a sudden. I am using a dial-up connection. Every time I try to get on line my modem goes through the motion and when the PC is logging on I get a RAS error 695 The solution that is in the FAQ from microsoft tolles me to add licenses to the license section of control...

Something really strange. I deleted some never-used fonts in the Fonts folder in order to free up some memory. But afterword, when I started up my Word 97 with its usual Courier default font, Courier came out on the screen as Arial bold. It says Courier in the font box, but the actual font on...

The C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder is dated within 10 minutes of installing the Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3 program. The folder is 25MB. A sub-folder GAC contains a slew of folders, including Accessibility, MSJscript, Microsoft.VisualBasic. All together 89 folders and 88 files. Nothing in...

Is it possible to know how to manually remove unnecesary entries accumulated over the years from the Register? Do any of the commercial products work? Rick

Can anyone tell me what the .rar file extension is? I was cleaning up file and it's all over and I don't want to delete without knowing?

I am having a problem when shutting down windows 98. The computer hangs forever on the page 'Windows is shutting down' how do I correct this problem. Finally my computer displays a large amount of illegal operation messages how do I correct this problem. Thanks in advance

I just finished my website and would like a lot of people to visit it. The address is http://clik.to/ahk There are forums there, as well as a guestbook, so post your comments there.

When trying to open my computer, internet explorer or the control panel I get an illegal operation error that mentions vx2.dll. PLEASE HELP

Lately everytime that I shutdown there is a fatal exception 0E. and the shut down stops till any key is pressed, then it will finish the shutdown. The exact message reads..... A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0297948 in VDX VWIN32(05)+000012D0...... Can anyone tell if this error can be...