Hi, I'm volunteer in an association which offers accesses to two Win98 boxes connected to Internet. Theses machines have been setup few years ago, and there's now no documentation available on their setup :( I would like to install Firefox 1.5 and OpenOffice 2.0 (they have an old IE 5.1 and MS...

I have firstly installed win98 to c:, then installed winxp in another partition to d:. Now I want to reinstall my win98 but remain my winxp. Previously after I reinstalled my win98, the master boot record cannot detect the winxp anymore and i have to reinstall winxp again too. So my question is:...

One of the keys on my keyboard is spoilt.. so how should i fix it?

I have an old PC running Windows 98 that I've moved to the basement for my young daughter to play games on. Somehow, she created a password protection that comes up during the boot up process but we don't know what the password is. I can't get past this password and get the computer to...

Hi all I have reformatted my hd on my P4 2.4 machine and want to install Win98. I tried this once before and got an error message. I found the solution on the MS knowledge base, but can't remember what the fix was. So, can anyone tell me how to install Win98 on my P4 2.4 machine, as the knowledge...

I have a laptop wich has windows 95 installed, my old computer crashed and I want to put windows 98 on the laptop but it keeps asking for an upgrade, what can I Do?

i am using windows ME, my computer is 225 MMX, very slow, i recently infected by spyware, so i wanna format the whole computer, i wanna install Windows 98, but does not have start up disk, but i do have windows 98 installation disk. please help me in this weird situation

I have two computers that have run out of HDD space, and I need to transfer the data to larger drives. One currently uses Win95 and the other Win98. I want to upgrade them both to the more universally compatible Win98se when I transfer the data. (I'm not prepared to move up to XP.) I was told...

Hello, I have a PC with Win98 Italian version installed. I would like to install the English version. Question is: Do I need to format the drive and install fresh or can I re-install English over the top? Thanks

Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get "Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender" Ive reset the CMOS, changed ram, CPU, hdd and still nothing ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference

Thanks to Hewlett-Packard's so-called "tech" so-called "support," my computer is now left unable to install any printer. When I "add printer" from the PRINTERS folder, and the wizard does some file copying, but the newly added printer does not appear in the PRINTERS folder, but rather in the...

Only close to the correct NG for this but...... I did a format and reinstall using Ghost2003. W98se runs OK and some apps run fine, others won't run. Most of the files were restored with the R (REadOnly) bit set. Now it's a windows or DOS maneuver to restore the archive bit to essentially a whole...

(cross-post added to Win98 Setup) "12013ert via WindowsKB.com" u50500@uwe wrote in message news:9386a2f31f636@uwe... my daughter has recently passed on her old, but reletively lightly used computer to me,it runs windows 98. i have been informed by BT technical services that i need to run...

I have a small C drive, but a large D drive, can I set the temp folder, or just the system, to use the D drive for extractions, and setups etc...?

Hi, I have an ASUS motherboard P5 A-B (I think) with 256M RAM, 2 60G Maxtor dirives, an new Nvidia Geforce2 Mx/Mx400, and a 550 AMD K6-2 550mhz cpu. for the past 3-6 months I have been freezing up (mouse pointer moves but won't activate anything) CAD has no affect, I simply have to power off and...

I have a sort-of dual O.S. setup. I have Win98 on one hard disk and I have Win XP on another. The first drive is from an older computer. Some of the programs that are on the old drive are useful to me but unfortunately, the hard drive is the only place they now exist. No backup CDs or anything...

When I try and start windows 98 second edition I get the following error message: Explorer: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor. If i click DetailsI get the following EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in...

From some times (3 or $ days ago) at the finish of the boot is appearing a windows for a configuration of a new ISDN connection. I don't have any ISDN line ,but an DSL that is workong fine: How can avoid these stupid windows? Paolo

If I use an official UPDATE disk to go from Win 98 to 98 SE, will I be required to format the hard drive, lose data (& software) - or is the update more harmless than that? Thx

Maybe not exactly the right NG for this but......close. I did a disk format and restored via DOS, W98se using Ghost2003. Many of the files were written back w/ the R (ReadOnly) bit set. Windows boots OK, some apps have no problems, others won't run. The question is how to easily reset the R bit to...