Recently all shortcuts on desktop and in e-mail open minimized as a small bar. I can't find the place to change settings to open full. Jerry in Vegas

My apologies. I've been sick and harried. Lost track of that one. Will post response to proper place (answering yours of 2/16, 2:04pm, your time.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

I have an Optiplex GX1 with Win 98SE. If I create a new folder and try to open .txt files in it by clicking on the file, I received a error message that the "this file could not be found; check path and file name. If I open Wordpad and then browse to the file it opens ok. If I move the file to an...

During boot i'm prompted with c:windows and will stop. What would cause this?

After uninstalling Norton Internet Security, Windows 98SE would not reboot. It gave me the error "Fatal exception 0D occured at 16A7:000014E3. Press any key to continue." Pressing any key causes the computer to hang (black screen). I rebooted using the Win98 boot disk that allows access to...

Outlook Express no longer opens from desktop icon or Start/Programs, etc. All virus and spyware completed. I found that I can open through IE browser after error message times out (MSNMSGR caused invalid page fault). How do I fix so desktop icon, etc., opens Outlook Express. Thanks for any advice.

Please help. I have window 98se with media player 9. I purchased music on MSN and downloaded it into "My Music" folder in the documents folder. The music is all there and I can play it on my computer. I am trying to place a blank cd rom in and download it onto the cd. I don't know how to do...

Hi all: Recently posted a question about why the Windows Troubleshooters weren't working properly on my laptop. The replies to that question indicated that the Troublshooters were killed by Microsoft via a Windows 98 upgrade. (Though, there's no mention of this problem I can find in the...

Can someone tell me where to find the XP Pro newsgroup? Thanks James --

I am not a computer technical person, but I am trying to get rid of a Trojan virus thing which has appeared on my PC, which is an HP Pavilion, new in 2000, 650MHz Athlon processor, using Windows 98SE and IE6. It is called "StartPage-DU.dll" and keeps causing my antivirus software (Regularly...

I have recently installed a network adapter card in this machine and connected it to a router/gateway ADSL unit. Works well until I switch on the USB printer. Clicking on a URL link in my browser causes the computer to crash. Both the NIC and PCI to USB controller share IRQ 11 so I deduce that the...

Hi guys (again), I knew I had 2 posts to make tonight. I was at a friends today and because he has two HD's we played. We formatted his drive then tried to put Win98se on it. We came across some odd things and still dont have OS on it. I did what I was taught here, ie, :::::: 1)Boot from start-up...

Trying to fix the above errors. With ref to kb137454, line 5-8, quote 5. Click OK or Close until you return to Control Panel. When you are prompted to restart your computer, do so. 6. In Control Panel, double-click Network. 7. Click the network adapter, and then click Remove. 8. Click OK. When...

In Win98, how do you access the system registry? All help appreciated.

I removed a modem. Now it just starts and goes to the page that has startup options(safe mode,ect) No matter what number I select the screen goes blank and I can go no further.I can't get to the desktop1 Can anyone help me,PLEASE

As per header. Started the system up (98SE) and all the icons are in "scrambled" order compared to my normal layout. Re-ran virus check with current definitions just to double-check - negative. Any ideas?

I know this amounts to a FAQ, but I've lost track of the answer. Various tasks are offered as candidates in a Ctr-Alt-Del situation, for closing. There is a bare minimum of these tasks that must be left running. Which are they? (The subgurus among us have no idea what most of the tasks are for,...

What ever became of the old win 3.x concept of a "permanent" swap file. Seems to me that if the win98 swap file is dynamic, wouldn't it get fragmented all over the place just like any other file? Is there a way to prevent that from happening? I suspect that's what's responsible for how much my home...

WIN98SE on boot: Goes thru all loading until you get to the green page. Then gets dialog box saying: ********************** Explorer This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Details: EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE...

Hi all: Pulled out a laptop that I haven't used for a while that's loaded with Win98. I was having some problems with the laptop and fired up Help then a Troubleshooter. The Troubleshooter came up OK, with its initial list of problems. But, after checking the problem that best described my...