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upgrade prob by Joe Rogers
A friend has just upgraded his OS from win98 to win98se and has encountered a couple of problems. 1. When he does a shutdown the pc re-boots. 2. The Windows tour page continually appears even after unchecking the 'dont show this again box' 3. He has the 'welcome to windows' message to enter a...
March 4th 05 04:43 AM
by glee Go to last post
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Installing win 98 by bigshot42
I'm trying to install Windows 98 on a computer (an older laptop )that has no bootable CD-Rom. What to do?
March 4th 05 01:54 AM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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test by ATK
Test
March 3rd 05 05:10 PM
by ATK Go to last post
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How do I change background screen? by Family Man
I have a different background screen while booting and shutting down Win98 than I do while it is running. I know how to change the main background by going into Display properties Background. But how do I change the other backgrounds shown only while my PC is booting and shutting down? Hank
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March 3rd 05 12:08 PM
by Dave D Go to last post
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I'm facing problems with the instalation of the Windows 98 by Rosas, Socorro del Carmen
I have a clone with the next characteristics: Board AT SIS 5595 , Pentium III of 366MHZ New HD of 30GB, 64MB of SDRAM, AMIBIOS System v.1.2.0 and I bought the PC at 1998. I made a new and unique primary and active partition of the total HD as FAT32 through FDISK. Then I formatted the HD and...
March 2nd 05 06:58 AM
by Bill Watt Go to last post
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please wait while setup updates your configuration files ... by Tony Stanford
Hi - Can some kind, knowledgeable soul help me with a problem, please? Recently, my win98 machine froze doing nothing special. I booted up again and got the message ... 'please wait while setup updates your configuration files...' Now, every time I boot up win98, I get that same message. Things...
March 1st 05 02:12 PM
by Tony Stanford Go to last post
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generic installer error by missy
I have trying to install windows98 I get to the point where I created a startup disk and begin the copying Win 98 files to my computer when I get the following: Generic installer error Message SU99405 Updatelnis-processing error (0X195) any ideas.. I'm install on a clean HD
March 1st 05 04:01 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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setup roadblock by wit's end
Does anybody know how to get rid of error message SU995033 - Invalid .inf file (0x13a9)? This message occurs when I am in the middle of setting up a reinstall of windows 98, causing the install to hang and brings me back to a C prompt when I press the OK button.... THANX
March 1st 05 01:10 AM
by PattyL Go to last post
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Hilighting with a mouse by imasurfer
When I highlight something to copy it, the highlight disappears when I let go of the mouse. The highlight will appear as I move the mouse, but it will not stay highlighted. This is an intermittent problem, not constant, but very annoying. Has anyone seen this, and where would I look to find a...
March 1st 05 12:37 AM
by doug ewart Go to last post
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Something keeps writing to the disk? by Family Man
How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag...
February 26th 05 07:05 PM
by Christopher Go to last post
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trying to reload win98 from boot disk by Norm
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...
February 25th 05 06:25 PM
by John John Go to last post
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How do I get past Registration if it wont work? by Steven G.
I had to restore an old HP computer with the recovery disc and I'm at the part where windows greets you and tries to get you to register it online. It says you can skip the register process and do at later date but when I try to skip it, it takes you right back to the register part. I've tried...
February 22nd 05 11:24 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Have a Wild Mouse by J. P. Willis
I bought a MS basic optical mouse. Then I downloaded the latest Inttelimouse driver. The whole thing made the mouse go wild, all over the screen, has no stability. Hw can this be remedied?
February 21st 05 09:11 AM
by Mikhail Zhilin Go to last post
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How to change the contents on the Start Menu ? by Tytoque
How to change the contents on the Start Menu e.g Delete the item Favorites, Documents....? TIA
February 21st 05 04:49 AM
by Alan Edwards Go to last post
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Reinstall 98SE - Stack Overflow by Allen
I am trying to reformat my C: drive to reinstall a clean COPY of WIN98SE. I have prepared the WIN98SE starup disk but run into problem with the format C: action. When I use the startup disk to boot up the system and type : format C:. I got this error message "Trying to recover allocation unit...
February 20th 05 08:56 PM
by philo Go to last post
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Reinstalling upgrade by David M.
I have an old computer with win 95 on it. I upgraded to 98, then let it get updates from MS. It would not boot, so i did fdisk and format, now I can't reinstall 98 without proof of 85, and I don't have the disk. Help!!
February 18th 05 06:54 PM
by John John Go to last post
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Floppy Drive Does a Seek at Shutdown by J. P. Willis
What dio I need to do to perevent the floppy drive from coming on to seek a disk at shutdown. It only recently started to happen. Please help.
February 18th 05 03:17 PM
by PattyL Go to last post
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weird characters shown up instead of original symbols by Bee Chu
Something happened that the menu & screen symbols become strange characters in my Win98 SE system. Is there anyway to check why the font files in the FONT folder are not used/accessed properly ? I'd checked that marlett.ttf and other ones are the same as before i.e. not corrupted. In fact, I'd...
February 18th 05 03:15 PM
by PattyL Go to last post
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Win98 Boot Disk by jjohnn77
I lost my win98 boot disk, I'm now running win xp pro, I want to install win98 on an other computer, but I can't seem to find a way to create a new boot disk from my win xp system, can anyone help?, thankyou all.
February 17th 05 02:39 PM
by PattyL Go to last post
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WinExplorer - two entries for C: - help! by budgie
To resolve some otherwise intractable issues, I've just nuked the C: drive on my kids' box and reinstalled 98SE. No big deal. However, Windows Explorer now shows duplicate entries in the left pane for the C: drive. If I select C: in the left pane, the right pane only shows the one entry, but...
February 16th 05 01:29 PM
by glee Go to last post
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