What is the difference between working in background and busy?

When my previous mouse started, on random occasions to move horizontally, normally but not vertically I fitted a new mouse. Now the new mouse has started to be ok for vertical movements but at random it will not meove horizontally. Sometimes it might with the arrow keys if i am lucky. If I switch...

Hi All, I'm having some problem with the mouse: 1) When I click to highlight a word or paragraph in order to change text size, color, etc, it will not stayed highlighted. The minute I release the button, it will unhighlighted the word or paragraph that I wanted. It's very frustrating. I need to...

What is the difference between the working in background mouse pointer and the busy mouse pointer?

Hi everyone, Help required : I have a wireless mouse plugged into USB that keeps "hanging" during use, it does it at any time and lasts for any amount of time it wants to, I have removed the device in device manager & rebooted ,then reinstalled the drivers, but it still keeps doing it, It was...

I'm running W98SE on a ThinkPad 770E with 96 mb RAM and a 5 gb IDE drive. Is there any logical move up the system ladder for minor home computing (minimal web surfing like TV Guide, email, news, small program running, no action gaming - only stuff like solitaire, etc., some music playing) without...

My PC has 2 physical HDD First HDD is 80 GB C: as Primary Second HDD is 40 GB with extended partitions D: 20GB Primary E: 10GB logical F: 5 GB logical G: 5 GB logical Currently have a dual boot.

Whenever I boot my comp. the message "mprexe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." and then my comp freezes and I have to reboot and it still comes up..Also if I try to boot into safe mode that also comes up. ..does anyone know what this means and how I may fix this if I can? I...

Help, I installed a PCMI port for an ethernet cable and it installed Adobe and Acrobat. Then the computer crashed and I can only come up in safe mode or with the windows cd- rom. I get an error that says that it cannot find a device needed to run windows or a windows application. It says the...

When i try to back up my hard drive to my cd-rw, i get a error message: "end of media", the program will not continue to record on a second cd. I have tried both cd-r and cd-rw. I have win98se 4.10.2222. Feel free to email me at my address if you have any help. thanks

The errors that I keep having with this app. are from and running in the background while the back up is running. I have closed all running app. on system except explorer. I know what is for Task Scheduler. I do not know what is. It resides in temporary files, history, cookies. Also,...

Hi, I have been using Microsoft backup for years. I backup to a cd-rw disk. My "main back up" job up are files I use all the time. I also have another "photo backup" job on the same disk. Today, I went to back up my files and for some reason when I hit "main backup" the program begins, then I get...

Dear NG: Win 98 SE w/all Windows updates. If I open an existing backup job or create a new one, select Options..., select the Exclude tab and then select Add..., I get the following error message: MSBACKUP caused an invalid page fault in module CDFVIEW.DLL at 0167:639095e6.

Hi when tryin to run msconfig or regedit they dissapear after popping up for a second or two, ive tried 4 virus programs but when viruses are found and removed the problem re occurs, plz helppppppp!!!!!!!

Hi i need sum help, for sum erason my ms config when loads just dissapears into thin air so i cannot use it! any help on thi?

how do i run a program from the ms dos(pq magic)

Does anyone know how to copy the whole directory, including all the sub-directory with files under MS DOS? Thank you for any suggestion Eric

Remember MS DOS? I have a new computer (Win-XP), but I still keep my old one going (W98se). I'm having troubles with my W98se one. Basically, Windows Explorer is not functioning correctly... sometimes not at all! I've posted questions about that, but the thread has been lost/deleted. I'm hoping...

How can I get back to the windows side of 98SE from DOS side? I have this prompt- C:\WINDOWS. Start does not work.

Due to an unsuccessful installation and uninstallation of an antivirus software on a windows 98 PC the MS exchange mail program appears to have been damaged: Mail messages are received with the sender´s name unprocessed and the text (mail body) completely missing. Is it possible to reinstall just...