hello everyone, I was considering the idea of upgrading my current computer from windows 98 to windows 2000. The reason why is because I want to hook my desktop up to wireless broadband, but that is not compatible with windows 98. I spoke to the retailer at Cricket and he told me that I would...

What are you talking about? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User wrote in message news:1106906990.880c2d033b2992c2875ef754ea9a90c9@bubbanews... did they ever fix the desktop freeze on delete with IE6?

Brian Livingston at Windows Secrets wrote: We usually skip publication on any 5th Thursdays that come around (such as May 29), but serious problems involving Service Pack 3 for Windows XP have made us work overtime to bring you today's special report. http://windowssecrets.com/comp/080529

My samsung sh-182f DVD writer has become horribly slow, records at 1X max, even with 16X disks. I cannot turn DMA on in the hardware manager. Even my floppy drive has DMA ........ Must be a way. 6 hours hacking and nothing so far. TIA Apparently there is a registry/system entry that does...

How can I assign the Drive letter M to a newly connected (USB) external hard drive? The external hard drive is presently showing up in the Device Manager as: - Acronis Devices Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer I tried to follow the following instructions: 1. In the System option...

Hello Brian, some odd things going on I cannot see a way to process my startup device drivers, nor process the startup command file which I am to set to no, but do not the options I cann set the Load Windows drivers switch to yes or no - but that does not help also brian

Hi, I have a dilemma. I tried to post 3 times today to the string, "Error Alert?" NO SUCCESS So trying again!! What is happening? Angel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know if a registry patch is available yet *for Windows 98* for the 2007 Daylight Saving Time changes for the United States? I've googled it, checked the MS website, etc. and can't find a patch for Win98. Fwiw, I expect patches to be...

Can someone help with Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. ? Can no find it anywhere.. Need replace incompatoble version with this one. Thank you.

Hello! http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_98_Me_Support_to_End_in_July/1144782174 One of the comments After reading all the posts, am disappointed in many of them. As a tech that runs my own business, I see all operating systems,

Hi all,,,, I now have two O/S's, one on my Cdrive, and one on another partitioned drive. I am very happy. I do have one question that sees me sitting in win98 too afraid to reboot. First, my computer as it was:::::::: Cdrive = Win98 O/S Ddrive = Autocad only. Edrive = Playground and where all...

Hi! I"m moving to a new machine that probably won't run win98, so I planned to run it from a Virtual Machine under winxpsp3 Is it okay to have all the harddrive partitions NTFS, even though win98 can't normally read NTFS? Thanks Much Less important:

For some reason Win98 won't keep track of the directories on the floppies: Example: Two floppies. both have only one subfolder each with many files in each subfolder Disk 1 has folder Book 1, nothing else in root Disk 2 has folder Book 2, nothing else in root Windows Explorer shows 3 1/2 floopy...

This is really getting insane. I just restored a perfectly good C:\ image which worked 100%, and I can NOT move icons on the desktop. I've Googled, and no one has ANY answers except "unlock auto-arrange" (duh) or "clean you middle mouse button". Anyone? (SIGH) -- "Who knows what the OP is...

See http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=595539 g,d&r... -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

Lo and behold, there are two new Critical Security patches at Windows Updates for Windows 98/98SE/ME. Note that you can *only* get these patches via Windows Updates. -- Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB896688) -- Security Update for DirectX 9 (KB904706) Note,...

I am adding the 98 general newsgroup for their feedback as well. The question of what is wrong with Microsoft is simple but I welcome corrections if I am wrong. smile Microsoft is a big company with not enough competition and so Microsoft does things their way. If and when Microsoft has...

The program itself will not open from the "accessories" list, not will any item stored in Paint open. (mostly photos-some documents that scanned to the Paint location) I have a Compaq #7594 Win98SE. It came with only restore disks which would mean losing everything and beginning from scratch. Is...

Here we go again, another Adobe Reader vulnerability.... NOTE that JAVA is instrumental in this vulnerability... and note the reg entry modification if you are still using Adobe Reader. NOTE: the regedit example is for NT/XP/VISTA IF you need an alternative and are willing to give up all the...

my 'puter is not shutting down cleanly, we are on windows 98se On shutdown this message appears and the 'puter does not complete shut down. message:- illegal operation ANNCLIST - ivalid page fault in module kernal 32 at 0187:bff 96836 There are a list of other numbers