I have a question about Windows 98. My parents work in Germany, military school teachers, my brother has left them a NEC monitor, Comtech pc, etc. The problem is that some pop-up menus are in German. As my brother was proficient in German. How can my dad get the system to English? I do have a 98...

I recently had an in-warranty replacement of an EPSON all- in-one CX5200. The defective unit worked fine for scanning and copying, but the ink delivery system went bad after only 6 months of use. After unplugging the old unit and plugging in the new unit (identical model), the scanning funtion...

Everything I open Solitare from the Games Folder I get a critical stop. The details state SOL.EXE has caused a General Protection Fault. How do I fix this problem? Thanks,

Hi Don't know if I'm in the right newsgroup but here goes anyway. I disconnected my Win98se computer which was in my sons room to hook it up in my room. Now, when i turn the computer on I get a screen that says: Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a...

my sister computer is stuck in safe mode because the power went out for a minute and that caused her sound card driver to split I think ESS Allegro is under others can she uninstall her driver and hopefully start windows in regular mode? It won't go in regular mode and install her sound card once...

I need to uninstall a program. I tried using the software's own uninstall utility, but it generates an error message about component tracking, then shuts down. I tried using the add/remove programs utility and the same thing happens. I contacted the software manufacturer who told me that I need to...

My PC running Window 98 has just started having a problem on startups. It searches for something called pnetaware.exe that it can't find. Everything seems to work fine if I click cancel and let it finish booting. Any ideas what this file does? Thanks

Had to reinstall Windows 98-now won't let me update critical downloads. Tried all the suggestions. Trying to reinstall norton internet security--installation fails. HELP

I have been using this ng for a year or two now. For some reason I am now unable to download any headers except two. One is dated 24.08.04 and the other is dated 10.08.04. I am using OE6 and win98se. The "view applied" tells me there are 2438 not downloaded. I have tried Tools/Get next 300 headers...

Yesterday I could open up all my photo JPG icons. Today the JPG icons on all photos stored in "My Documents" suddenly changed from regular icon to the Microsoft "flag," and now I can not open any of these files. When I double click on the icon I get the following message: "this file does not have...

I am running Windows 98 on a laptop (IBM Thinkpad 380 ED). When I start up my computer, it is telling me: "Windows did not finish loading on first attempt" and then i have to startup in "safemode". I can not figure out why this is happening. Also, my D: drive is not being recognized. Can anyone...

After reinstalling my packard bell master cds on my packard bell pulsar 510 i tried to use word 2000 and it asked me for the product key which i have never had since i purchased the system nearly five years ago. is there any other way to sort this as i cant seem to find one? also since reinstalling...

i'm running windows 98 2nd in a different language but i want to install it in english. i get a interface error .how can i install it without upgrading my windows.

I run a network at my school. Which has about 300 cpu's o it. We constantly have kids running kazaa or other programs that we do not allow. On windows XP we simpally run group policy editer and and kazaa to the list but for the systems that still run WIN98 we can not do this. Is there anyway we can...

I am unable to open folders such as My Computer or My documents The Computer freezes. When I click on C+Alt+Del the message against explorer is : Not responding Then the computer freezes altogether and I have to re start from the tower. Can anyone help please

My HP colorado backup program is not responding, I canceled a backup and now the program won't respond...could windows think it is still running?...or what?...how do I get the program to respond? PLEASE HELP!!! Thanx.

For the last 2-3 weeks, my computer has been repeatedly trying to connect to the Internet . As far as I know, nothng is scheduled to do this. Adaware, Pest Patrol and Spybot (all most recent files) find nothing and Zonealarm doesn't detect any active programmes when this happening. The connection...

I have an error window on my screen that continues to come up even after re-boot. It reads as follows: Wtoolsa This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down. If problem persists, contact the program vendor...when I open the details it says: WTOOLSA caused an invalid page...

this is the message i get when i try to install mozilla firefox browser SETUP caused a general protection fault in module VGA.DRV at 0001:00002a91. Registers: EAX=00550400 CS=031f EIP=00002a91 EFLGS=00000246 EBX=0002007e SS=198f ESP=0000b440 EBP=0000b45e ECX=00000008 DS=0f0e ESI=00000020...

where can I pick up a windows 98 operating system disk I just purchased a dell latitude xpi-cd pentium I 150 and the hd is only 2.0 gig the disk that came with it does not seem to be working.