I want to reinstall DIRECTX as I have a Ddhelp error when accessing some sites with IE. Normally I get round it by using Firefox instead. Unfortunately one of the sites which throws up the illegal operation is Microsoft's which doesn't like Firefox, which means I cannot update the Direct X. Help

Hello, Fresh install of OEM Win98SE on a Toshiba Satellite 1605CDS laptop (new in 2000). Installed Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird for internet access and email. I'm giving this laptop to my sister and don't want to confuse her, so I'm removing anything I feel is extraneous. Does anyone...

What will happend to a 250GB disk with 4 x 60GB partitions under Win98se? As long as the disk is connected though USB from an external USB cabinet Win98se sees all 4 partitions and can read/write as normal But will this work diffrently when I hook up the disk to the internal S-ATA controller and...

Hi, I'm giving my sister a Win98SE laptop (new in 2000). Her first computer. She lives in another state. I just committed over a week of my time customizing/tweaking the GUI, installing hardware, software, etc. I kept meticulous installation notes, BUT if she needs to 'start over', rather than...

When I restarted my PC and it got to the screen where you have a username and password an error appeared. It told me i needed to re-install windows. I tried starting in safe mode and the same error appeared so I tried to go into ms dos mode and from here I am stuck. I noticed when my pc was booting...

Hi My sister has a Dell computer that is like a pentium 800 mhz I think. She is using Win98 SE Their computer started having problems where while it was booting up you could see everything clearly but once it was to the main screen everything was way blurry and it was impossible to use First...

I am running windows 98SE. When I use my USB hub I find that if I do not plug the same device into the exact same USB hub's outlet the hardware add wizard comes up to install the driver. Can I have multiple drivers assigned to the same outlet on the hub? So I can use the same outlet for more than...

Hi all, I have an old computer(don't know the mobo or model and it's still at work so can't check till Monday), am installing win98 on it, or trying... it has a Pentium III 750mhz cpu, 20G hard drive, 64M RAM, BIOS detects hard drive and CD drive okay, but when I boot up off the win98...

Hi all, A friend of mine who has a W98FE machine and a little daughter came to me and said "she just deleted a bunch of files, can you rebuild it?" I got the key id with jelly bean and copied the cabs subdirectory to another hd. Then I rebooted/repartitioned/ reformated the main drive into C and...

I can't remember. Recently wiped HDD of laptop and reinstalled Win98SE to start fresh (giving laptop to my sister). WinXp Pro has a color pie chart. Silly, I know, but I want to be sure things are as they should be. Help please. :-) Cheryl

Greetings: I've been using Win98SE and given my situation, I really don't want to upgrade to XP or whatever. I've been using Norton Antivirus 2001 but now the program tells me I have to purchase a newer version. When I purchased the newer version, I found it extremely slow (my computer is a...

How do I get a new one? The computer is already restored. I can't get it from the registry. --

Hi I'd like to install W98, with a clean install - i.e. format the hard-disk, then do a full install. Reason for this is that there's an existing installation of ME, which is either a complete pile of guano as an OS (as many people have said), or is just so overloaded with registry entries/broken...

I have spent hours trying to get the USB ports working, including downloading EVERY critical update for W98SE. Is there anyone using this MB (just bought) with W98SE. Thanks.

Where do I tell Win98SE to not open a new window every time I navigate to a different folder? Thanks.

Right Click on "Start" opens a menu with the following. Open Explore Find Scan with AVG Open and Explore are now grayed out. How do I get them back? Regards,

I want to install new hard drive I will set the jumpers to master and cable select that I will run fdisk and then install windows 98SE. Do I have to do anything in order to make it a bootable hard disk? Also if I install the old drive as the slave and remove the master jumper still with the older...

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff) I did the upgrade from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd & msn32.dll. So...

How do I erase a hard drive completely to install another operating system? From Windows ME to Windows XP Pro. The problem is that as soon as I turn the computer on it shows me a meassage that says, "the files on this drive have been corrupted" and it does not let me in to the operating system....

Hi, I have Win98 and when launching IE I get an error message, so I'm unable to login the Internet with it. I have tried the "repair" option, and tried re-installing Win98, without wiping everything out. I have also tried downloading and re-installing IE. Nothing works. I can login using...