On rebooting today, almost all of my shortcuts do not function and have reverted to the MS non-specific icon. None of my .exe files will open when I click on them directly in the directories; I get the "Open with..." box. I can open and run the programs from the Start | Run box. Norton...

She is in for problems and added expenses--see this web site for details: http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm If she wants to dual boot W2K, the easy way is to use a boot manager and partitioning program such as: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it...

Hello about half the time I start my machine I get a wucrtupd error message, details kernek32.dll at 0177:bff9d709. sometimes I can close and continue some times it will not close. How do i fix this? thanks Will

I went to the add/remove programs app and deleted garbage that AOL installed on my system. Garbage like the AOL Toolbar, AOL explorer (different than IE) and a free spyware scanner (I use McAfee). But know everytime I reboot I receive a message that the file "MFC42.dll" cannot be found. I...

I have a Compaq Laptop. OS win 98se. Pent.III. 12gig HD I cannot get it to boot up. This problem came out of nowhere. One day it worked fine - next day can't boot up. I get the green lights to blink once then they go out - black screen, with error code 162, CMOS - System not setup. I have taken...

Hello, Although I fixed the long pause problem while using Properties in Explorer on large files, I have noticed another small problem after upgrading from FE to SE. While using SE Explorer, inside ANY lowest hierarchical subfolder (deepest) and I click the minus (-) sign of the folder...

Anybody have any experience running Norton Internet Security 2005 on Windows 98 Second Edition. I upgraded from NIS 2004 to NIS 2005. It took about 3 attempts to get NIS properly installed, but after I did, my 5Mbps cable internet connection dropped dramatically. All processor time appears to...

Recently, I tried to load some software (image and video viewer, I think) from an old (pre-98 I think) CD. It seemed to screw things up pretty well, so I went back to an ERD which I had saved not long before. Now most things work OK, but I get three or four errors during boot. They are quite an...

I have a desktop that has an empty 'control panel'. There's not one icon or anything for that matter in there. Is this something that can be corrected or will a major overhaul have to take place to get this machine right once again. Any help would be much appreciated. THANX N ADVANCE. The...

What exactly does the "Explorer" process do? I assumed it is the graphical "shell" executing atop Windows OS (which provides basic processor, memory and I/O management services) which controls desktop, task bar, and the starting of new applications. Is that correct? I get confused between...

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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...

Hello, I have a four year old pc with a one year old hard drive that is divvied into two partitions with win98se and winxp pro on the primary and extended partitions respectively. I've got a 933mhz pIII cpu and 512mb of sdram. I've recently noticed a drastic slowdown in performance when browsing...

can anyone help? Everytime I try to start my computer and load windows I get an error after signing in saying that Explorer has performed an illegal operation and will have to be shut down. Of course then the computer will not load windows at all. Any suggestions?

I am running Windows 98 SE on a PII 400 with 256Mb of RAM. I have recently experienced a long list of problems, including the following. 1. Windows will not shut down. When I chose to shut it down, it reboots. Any suggestions? 2. I have recently installed a highspeed internet providers software...

I am running Win98SE on a 233 MHz Dell notebook with 64 Mbytes of RAM. Some program - I think it's Explorer.exe (not Internet Explorer) getting stuck in some sort of loop. I use MemTurbo and it shows the CPU usage as 100%. Killing Explorer and letting it automatically restart usually fixes the...

Looking for an indeo 5.2 video codec. If I get to find this codec, how does one install it. I do have it on another computer and tried to find a way to copy it, but I can't find it anywhere except in Control P/Multimedia area where its listed with other codecs.

I made a mistake in installing a multi-card reader, having connected the hardware before installing the drivers as I should have. Any ideas on how I can remove the drivers so that I can correctly reinstall them? Thank you Vimal --

On all my full-screen games I play, I always experience the same problem. During the middle of play, the game either minimizes or ends for no reason at all. Any suggestions for fixing or even finding the source of this problem? Also, I don't know if this has anything to do with the same problem,...

I've purchased a new game and it installed but when I went to play it my computer came back with a loader error something to do with oleaut32.dll I searched the internet for a newer version and loaded it to my computer but I'm still getting the same error....help what should I do? signed lost laura