I keep running into dead ends here. I have a modern i7 machine with Windows XP and Microsoft's GS Wavetable SW for MIDI which sounds different than the one I remember in Win95/98 when I used Voyetra AudioStation to mess with MIDIs. I tried Virtualbox which doesn't simulate the old OPL3 MIDI...

With their NNTP Server closing they just added more groups microsoft.public.forecaster microsoft.public.frx microsoft.public.pos microsoft.public.smallbusinessmanager ?????

Several people have asked recently about various Windows Updates. Like how many have been issued since the Windows Updates Security CD was released, how many of Win98 Gold's patches were subsumed into Win98SE, etc. There are two major difficulties in this experiment. First, you can't get...

I have been getting these emails with "PCSecurityShield" in the from list. No, I have not opened any of them. I just wanted to know what it is. I would like to know also the website from which it is coming. If it is bad stuff, I can put it in restricted zone. Any information would be appreciated. ...

1 About Usenet 1.1 What is Usenet? Usenet is a distributed network which means that the submitted information is always available via the fast internet connections from your local Usenet Provider. Usenet offers the ability to efficiently exchange information among all other Usenet users around...

Excuse the cross post, however, Windows 9X is just as vulnerable, if not more, than using outdated applications in other OSs. A basic explanation is found he http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5473&tag=nl.e539 I suggest following the linked materials, and further research into the various...

I would like to produce a (text) file that shows when (date & time) bootup is completed and when shutdown is initiated. The file needs to append itself everytime bootup and shutdown occurs, i.e the file grows bigger with time. For example, over a year period the file will probably have many...

It's beginning increasingly apparent that I will not be about to keep up with the "deluge" of 98 trials and tribulations for much longer. I first cut "my teeth" here, and the great part of so many of you originals are still around--(Don't nobody croak anymore" ;- I do know Alex will be...

This morning when I started my Windows 98 Dell Dimension, it began something I hadn't seen before, a surface scan, a very slow process that took 30 to 40 minutes, then it told me it had found one bad cluster (out of the many thousands of clusters on the C drive) that was bad, and so it was moving...

I have a Windows 98 system. The computer is a mutt. A friend helped me out when the power system went, then he got ambitious and loaded in a bunch of stuff. So I'm really not too certain what all is in here. Anyway, when we got the computer back, it worked for a while. Then for some reason, it...

Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of 1 minute doing nothing! Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going. These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even doing...

This is Win98se For some reason there is some icon confusion going on. For example, I have a program called "Hosts Toggle" (to turn on and off the hosts file). Right now, all files with the PDF extension have the icon from "Hosts Toggle". Text files (.txt) have an icon from another...

I am so tired of having to type Alt+(NUM)0151 whenever I want to type an em dash in a Windows application such as Outlook Express. Is there some way I can reconfigure my keyboard to be able to type an em dash as easily as I type an exclamation mark or a question mark—with a single key? This is...

Youtube is ****ing me off. It keeps whining and complaining that my browsers are outdated, such as Seamonkey and Kmeleon. (Using win98se). So I use Firefox 3.x and now it's whining that my plugins need to be updated. On EVERY DAMN PAGE I OPEN. I do not get this warning on any other website. ...

Happy New Year everyone! Can Firefox be used on Windows 98SE? Which version? One reason, I am asking is because I have been having trouble accessing my yahoo mail with the old IE version 6. The computer keeps freezing up when I try. I Keep getting the message that Yahoo mail is (not Responding),...

Running Win98FE and installed the sothink flv player Works great!, full screen, just double click on the .flv file and the video runs. Except... The icon in front of the .flv stays generic as though nothing will open it.

OK, I think it's mostly finished. All I need are a few guinea pigs, web page proofers, etc. The files I am offering work for ALL legacy Windows systems, 95 through 2000 (XP and 2003 are the only ones MS provides updates for, and the info is already in Vista.) The only system I haven't tested...

This is a follow up to 2 previous posts in this newsgroup. Ok, I confirmed that the FDD ribbon cable red stripe was aligned with pin 1 on the motherboard. I then confirmed it was also aligned correctly at the FDD. Still got the constant green LED while the FDD spun around like a CD drive. I then...

See display question at end!! When I look at history with ie5.x the indexed information is rendered as folders (today, yesterday, etc.) and the folders expand to display the urls. When I look at history in a program which shows how the information is ACTUALLY stored on the hard disk, the...

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