~10 seconds seems excessive, considering I can do that instantaneously. (But I haven't tried it much.) Is there a glaring difference of installed software between the systems affected & those unscathed? What is running in the background when an affected system is slow vs. when it's quick? When it...

It might be cuter to go philo's way, if you want the wheel to work & to save space, maybe. Here is how to see whether you already have a driver for the mouse, though. BUT mine won't use the wheel in DOS! (a) "START button, Find, F/F, DOSStart.bat". (b) Don't click it-- It would run, as any .bat...

If I leave my computer unattended for some time, it is frozen. any help to fix this issue will be greatly appreciated. thanks.

I upgraded my Win 98 to SE and it failed somewhere during setup and I got a black screen. Some of it installed because under System Information it says I have Windows 98 SE. But my computer won't shut down, my help files are messed up, Dr. watson doesn't work. I had some messed up .dll files, so...

When I click on the shutdown button in the login screen, the text shows up but not the pictures. I can not click on any button in the shutdown screen. In an account it will show up, but to see the desktop I have to go into the task manager. I then have to click new task and...

I currently have a test computer with three older/smaller hard drives for Win98se, WinXP and NT2000. I use a TRIOS unit to select the hard drive to boot up into. I just bought an 80GB drive. I understand that I can Fdisk three separate Primary partitions for the three operating systems. I am...

How can I read a diskette formated with doublespace?? thanks

Hi Yesterday my computer worked fine, but suddenly the windows update logo pops up in the tray, telling me that my pc is infected with spyware. I tried to make it stop, as it kept popping up - disturbing me in my work, but with no luck. I therefore restarted my computer and now whenever it boots...

Got a Gateway with 98se running with all updates. Almost crashed because HD was full. Got 80 gig auxiliary and dumped pictures and such over there. Still was tight so I deleted windows programs I was not using. Now I cannot share network with my sons computer. He has ethernet card. I just put in...

And.. when support for win98 ends - does that automatically mean that support for win98 applications by MS and third party also ends? Thanks.

I am using Win98 First Edition. The IDE hard drive controller is the Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller. Will this controller control both IDE and EIDE hard drives? What is the maximum size (GB) IDE and / or EIDE hard drives that it will control? Paul

1st. off, I do not wish to use a different broswer. Often times, I will click on to a link from an open Page of IE, and the whole page just hangs. I might have only 4 IE windows open at the most. Sometimes if I close a few of the other windows, the "new" window will open, but usually I have to ctrl...

Hello! http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200512/kt2005121319341211780.htm "Seung estimated about 10 percent of Korean PC users depend on Windows 98 and merely half of them would substitute the decade-old system with higher versions like Windows 2000 and XP. ``To protect those who employ...

I have a NEC laptop with Windows 98 installed on it, and recently Ient it to a friend of mine for a couple of days. She claims that one day she started it up, and all it would allow was the 16 color display option in properties, and it also wouldn't allow her to connect to the internet any longer,...

Strange thing happened today after turning on my Win 98 SE computer. The computer turns on, the bios test runs, the windows 98 splash screen shows up and then after the message "Windows 98 is starting" the screen goes blank. I could still hear the computer running and all starts fine. But I can't...

Does anyone know a way to clean the power supply fan? Mine is not consistently coming on when I boot. I can make it come on, by shooting it with canned air, and once it is on, it stays on. I have tried cleaning by shooting with air, and also oiled it after cleaning. Any help would...

The day before yesterday, Win98SE began doing its restarts at an initially very slow pace. On my 2000 Compaq Presario 7AP190, the red "Compaq" now appears on the screen for about half a minute instead of a few seconds, and from then on until part way through the low-res Win98 greeting...

Hi, I have a bizarre issue. When I install any drivers for USB 2.0 flash disk (irrespective of the brand) on my old Windows 98 notebook that is an executable file rather than an INF file, the installation wizard starts for an already installed active control loads instead of the driver for the...

My monitor stopped dispay anything with one computer. It now works fine with another second computer I purchased. I had to install video drivers to make it work with the new computer. It does appear that the old computer is "working," based on the sounds I hear. Is there a way to tell whether...

Hi I probably should'nt ask this question in this forum, but I could not find the proper forum/discussion to ask this and I really need to figure this out very urgent. I want to use a .reg file to make changes in the registry. I am trying to change the (Default) string value that can be found at...