After months of listening to mp3's and CD's, my sound card just stopped working. When I open an audio application and try to play a sound file I get the message: "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it." This message appears on all audio applications. In fact, I get NO...

My Dell laptop has a persistent problem when it's been on for a while. Screen goes blue and freezes and II getk thand I get this message: KEBUGCHECK: called by c002b698 Error code is 40 System Halted. Anybody familiar with this or how to fix it?

HI,, when I first boot up my computer i always have about 90-92% resources,, I go to msconfig,, and these are checked: scanregistry; taskmonitor, system checked, ISTsvc, WinTools (checked in two places); AOLAcsDAEMON1; American Online 9.0 Tray Icon; PalNet Aware. I go to take the checkmark out of...

I recently thought that my hard drive failed on me so I hooked it up to a working computer and it worked on the working computer but when I hooked it back to my box it seems to start normal then just hangs at the menu, you know the one you get to pick normal , step by step, etc.... help any...

I gave my girfriend my old computer. Win 98, Pentium, 64M Ram. She told me that it has been shutting itself down: she gets the "It is now safe to shutdown your computer" screen, then shuts off, although she was playing games or just only had the computer and monitor running with her...

What is this directory $vault$.avg? It has been created recently and has 2 files in it with .fil extensions. JPC

Anybody know why my windows 98SE runs slow and momentarily hangs, while over-accessing the HDD? Did all the virus checks and spyware cleaning. The behavior is random and temporary, but sometimes lasts for a while Bruce

when i click on a link or option on a page ( anything, really) i have to click twice. nothing happens the first time i click...any thoughts on this? thanks in advance

Reposting: anybody have trouble with slow running or hanging Win98SE? HDD seems to be running too much too. Did all the antivirus, spyware cleaning, etc. Video driver, possibly? Thanks, guys, Bruce Curtis

When I start up my PC, the error message I get is: crms32.dll file is missing. I can't use the internet, aim, or outlook. Thanks and please advise. DaveB

How difficult is it to test the power supply for my computer myself? I have little a volt meter that has range to 500 DCV and ACV, will that work? Thank You.

How do I get tweak loaded? I got an old EXE file and ran it OK. It left 4 files in the \TEMP. but there was no EXE nor COM file. I have no icon, startMenu, nor ControlPanel entries for PowerToys nor Tweak. Jim

Hi I have windows 98 on my PC.Whenever I run Scandisk ,the computer is unable to scan the disk having Windows and it restarts scanning once in every five minutes.It gives a message that some software is writing on c: drive. I am unable to find out which program is writing on to C: drive. Same...

I have a 80gb hard disk installed on my computer,but my computer says I only have 2gb of memory.My coputer has 128mb of ram.

When logging into Windows, it is looking for an .exe file that was uninstalled from another software program. It advises "Missing shortcut gwremind.exe". I have uninstalled this program but Windows is still looking for it. How do I get rid of this? Thank you!

When I start disk defragmenter it keeps restarting "due to whatever program is running, but I couldn't find any to stop. How to find and fix it??

Windows 98/2 Computer hangs up at any point. 256 of RAM so no problem there

For the past 4 years I have always been able to run my system file checker and replace missing "dll's". No I am being blocked right from the onset with the following messege: C\windows\java\packages\FLZTVWVX.ZIP The reported error is 267: The directory name is invalid Make sure the folder...

When rebooting after a lock-up my son mistakenly left a disk in the CD drive. The system ramped the RAM, initialized the keyboard, etc., he got a "Operating System Not Found" message and then nothing. He tried removing the disk and rebooting but no change. Help!

I need to influence what gets loaded into the upper memory blocks. The config.sys file has the following (emm386 line may wrap) DEVICE=C:\windows\himem.sys DEVICEHIGH=C:\windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN I=B000-B7FF WIN=C900-CBFF WIN=B500-B7FF DOS=HIGH DOS=UMB FILES=120 BUFFERS=80