I recently have to reinstall Windows 98 on my mothers computer. Little brother is no longer using it and has everything a mess on it. She has lost the disk but have all the books and Product Key codes. Any ideas? Main reason I want to reinstall, too many error messages and freezes.

I have two hard drives in my system. No problem with drive C. I get "Drive not accessible" when I click on its icon.I have all my backups there.Hope you can help.

Every time i try to install 98se a message appears telling me that I don't have enough conventional memory, when I check I have 15gigs of memory. Does anyone have an idea why it's telling me this cheers owen

I have a computer that is about 5 maybe six years old that I got from Micron PC. I got it new and it has windows 98. Last night my computer would not let me click on any icons on my desktop. I tried restarting it and it come up with a screen asking for the User name for who the software will be...

My daughter has a Win98 OS and installed a card reader for her new camera. It is a USB card reader that required a setup program for the reader. When the system rebooted, the keyboard was not recognized and the mouse was slow and jerky. I could not enter the password for the login. I did a warm...

Hi, I downloaded window98 SE from MSDN subscription and I'm trying to install it on my newly formated hard drive from DOS, but with no success; When I type "setup" or "win98\setup" or ..... I keep getting the error: "bad command" or "This program cannot run in DOS mode" I used the command "Dir"...

I have win98SE installed on our computer and was having so many missing error messages that I decided to install win98SE with a different product number. It did not fully install and the properties on my system show the product registered in the original product number. How can I uninstall my...

One of my users'PC is having a strange problem opening any Help files. I've followed the advice in Q252612 with no luck. The message I get when launching 'Help' is: "Cannot open the file: ". The file is there, however. I've also run several other fixes...

I reinstalled Win 98 on my computer, not a problem. It starts up fine; however Win doesn't stay on it rolls over to an error message after about 10 seconds. Message reads a "fatal exception OE has occurred at 0028:FF086BBE" and I can either restart or press any key to continue. When I press a key I...

How do I get back to the registry settings I had yesterday. I need everything like it was yesterday. I don't know how to edit registry . Please help!

My hard drive was messed up so a friend gave me his old hard drive to replace mine. I FDISKed it, partitioned and formatted it, but when I tried to do a clean re- install with my windows 98SE I got this messag which I have never seen before; " Generic installer Error Message SU99407...

I was in the process of upgrading my Windows 98 to Windows XP. My son had so many games loaded on the computer, I just did a total restore. When the system re-booted, the system prompted me for the Windows 98 Product Key Id, but I haven't been able to locate the book that has the Product Key Code....

I accidentally deleted some windows files that are needed to make windows start on my computer. Reads "run setup". I manually deleted because of new HP printer software that would not install properly, was not in add or remove so I manually deleted. And went further to find and deleted more. I...

Where can i download the file explorer.exe for windows 98 second edition?

Hi all, I had plugged in a different secondary drive on my system in order to check the drive out and on bootup of course my win98se couldn't find a couple of programs referenced to the D: drive.. so I just cancelled out, but on putting my regular drive back in, I got an message asking what...

When my Windows 98 loads up. it scans through all the drives. then comes up with a message saying "com A Error, Please enter Setup to view Error" but when i enter setup, i cant find wot to do! Please someone help!!!!!!!

My system is missing some Windows 98SE files. I cannot locate my original Operating System CD. Is there any way to download the files that I need individually? Either the individual DLL or CABS would be acceptable. Please reply to the email address shown. Thank you

At first, Win98 boot disk, following fdisk and format, could not find and load the driver for CDROM. Got some really valid/valued advice from Ben Myers who instructed me to obtain a W95b floppy and boot from it followed by a set of DOS commands. Voila! could now install Win98 from the "R"...

how can i login as system administrator to change control panel settings

I'm working on a computer that I put new hardware into. Once I've loaded all the drivers and do a restart, the windows registry checker comes up and I get that it "found an error in your system files and restored a recent backup of the files to fix the problem. Press enter to restart the computer."...