Dyslexia strikes again! Soemwhere during installation of MS Office 2000 on my Win98SE, I misspelled my company name by inverting two letters. Went unoticed for eons. Now, after noticing this error and upon creating a file, I have to manually go to the new .xls, .doc, and ?? file, click on...

Just a FYI. OpenOffice.org has issued a new version to address vulnerabilities. If using the program check the update on the site. -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.org a Peoples' counsel _ _

Some programs by default installed to C:\Program Files\Common Files\ProgramFolder\program.exe\..., not into standard path C:\Program Files\ProgramFolder\program.exe. This path used intentionally. Why?

Many users of the Internet believe that because of the billions of users, they are protected from malicious attacks. These people apparently fail to understand the WHAT, HOW, WHY some of these attack activities occur. Others believe that the protections offered by the OSs somehow keeps these...

Is there a hard drive file organizer, optimizer, "cleaner", that will a) identify multiple copies of the same file based on - same file name (but perhaps binary identical, perhaps not) - different name, but binary identical and either follow your rules (eg smart rename) or allow you ...

I've been using Paolo Monti's "GDI32 / WMF Patch" for nearly a year now but it was only recently that AVG told me that the gdihook.dll component file was infected with the BackDoor.Hupigon4.ADUA trojan. A scan at Virustotal resulted in 18 out 36 antivirus software detecting the same malware....

Comcast is our internet provider and recently changed its email server to smartzone.We cannot retreive email as the folloeing message occurs " serv 32 casued an invalid page fault in modulemsncrt.dill at 017f:7800c9d3. We did not have this problem until the server downladed the email program....

I wanted to make the text on my Inspiron 1520 Windows XP (I running Windows 6.0) just a little bit larger, so I used the Accessibility Wizard. Instead of increase my font size a bit much, it is 10 times larger. I tried a number of times to re-do the Wizard but it would go back to my original...

Hi.. I've had Windows 98se for many years and I'm looking to get a newer PC. I see that MOST of the systems today come with Windows Vista. I do see an occasional PC with XP but it is usually one that is on "clearance". If I do get a newer PC, which operating system would you reccomend? I have...

Is there a fundamental reason why a dos progam that switches the display to 640 x 480 x 16 color VGA mode can't run in a resizable (or even fixed size) window on either win-98 or XP? But instead it must run in full-screen mode?

Does the RPC attack affect Win 98? M$ Security Bulletin: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx The Bulletin states: Customers who require custom support for older releases must

I recently purchased this GPS device: http://www.power-gps.com/en/chanpin/PWM-3501.html Here is the instruction manual: http://www.tempoaustralia.com.au/images/stories/instructionmanuals/pwm-3501tevionInstructionmanual.pdf (1.1 MB) No driver is supplied for this device. Instead it is...

Hi, all ! I've tested IPConfig /flushdns command and found out that it doesn't work. But before I go on, here are some background details... My connection to the net is via ADSL, dynamic link. In theory, the use of the following 3 commands:- ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig...

I have lost my mouse. It will not appear in plug & play nor is it listed when trying via 'install new hardware.' It is a serial mouse but when I try to select via 'standard mouse types' & move into the RH coulumn to select 'standard serial mouse' the keyboard down ket will noy move...

Since Windows Media Player 9 is not supported anymore in Windows 98 Second Edition, can users of this newsgroup suggest players that they like to play *.mp3 files and the like that will work in Windows 98 Second Edition and are currently supported. I do not mind paying a fee for a good media...

Outlook 2000 (running on Win-98) opens jpegs attached to e-mails with MS Paint (at least it does for me). This is also the default viewer when jpegs are opened from explorer. MS Paint does not have the capability to reduce the view to less than 100% or otherwise to "fit to window". What other...

Memory parity system halted on startup. What is failing in this old (9 year old) Dell XPST 450. I would like to backup all data. Then start Win 98se all over clean and go on from there. But ....over the past year, before I got my new machine. Every once in a while I get Memory Parity detected,...

I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6. I am curious to know of which system the 'Start' menu is a part. I have read lots about it on Google and although there are lots of good articles about it and its components no one says whether it is part of Windows, Windows Explorer or Outlook Express. I suspect...

After running defrag or scandisk my pc listed 317 hidden files containing about 3.5 gig. How can I find these files so I know what they are? My hard drive has never been more than about 30% used and now is showing about 75% used.

I set Explorer view in Tweakui to show no arrow on desktop shortcuts, long ago. Many cold boots since then. But any shortcut I create on Desktop shows that arrow. The only version data I can find on my Tweakui is: tweakui.cpl 106,544 6/18/2000 Advice?