I'm formatting my machine through dos and I hear Delltree can format it...is that true? how do I go about this

Is there no desktop icon text background color of transparent? Jim L -- No president can stop corporate job outsourcing and Kerry knows that, yet he bashes Bush for not doing it?

Win98SE I recently tidied up and moved lots of the desktop icons I logged off When Ilogged back on they were back in some old state I had before Is all the layout stored in the registry ? What's the best way to 'save' this layout for the next time ?

Is there a way to backup the desktop layout. I get a lot of crashes lately and often the desktop icons come up all squashed to one side. I tried to find a file that has those settings, but no luck. I think now that it is integrated into the swap file... Any advise will be...

I have win 98 and when I move the mouse the entire desktop screen moves instead of the mouse how can I fix it? -- Jim S

Where are the pictures stored for the desktop backgrounds. A friend had a family photo as a background and has lost the original, would it still be retrievable? TIA B.W.

I have a problem with certain folders in Win 98 in that they wont show anything when I choose VIEW - Details in Explorer. Some folders like the Temp Internet folders seem to be fully functional. In the past I used a key sequence like cntrl + to correct it but nothing seems to work. I also tried...

Is it possible to check while booting in AUTOEXEC.BAT via DOS commandline commands, whether Windows98 got booted "normally" or "commandline only" (by pressing F8), so I can load mouse-drivers and stuff dependent of if I'm in DOS-mode or booting up Windows?! i.e.: IF EXIST %NORMALBOOT% GOTO...

I've recently aquired a used Windows 98SE computer a few months back, and I confess that I'm more familiar with Macs than Windows. The person I got it from is not computer literate, and had lost the manuals for it. Is there any way to determine how much video RAM the computer has? When I asked the...

I keep getting the error: device driver not found: mscd001-along with no valid cdrom device drivers selected. I have downloaded a win98 bootdisk and I have partitioned and reformatted my hard drive. When I boot and choose to boot with cdrom support the computer does not see my cdrom drive and thus...

Sorry I don't have a screenshot but I've seen this before. In device manager, the devices are listed all over the place in no uniform listing whatsoever. Anyone seen this? child devices like controllers and modems and monitors etc are not in the parent device. Thanks.

When I startup the computer and the desktop is showing the computer does a diagnostic search, searching Router, Ipaddress, ethernet connection, etc. it does a loopback test and then says diagnostic is complete and the I have to click ok and it is fine. This has never happened before and I just...

In Network setup, seeking the simplest internet connection, Microsoft TCP/IP is available OK but simple Dial Up Adapter is not listed (among either Protocols or Devices) -- although I am sure it was there last week. . . . So what do I do now ? --

My friend just bought a second-hand PC from the IT department at his workplace. It has Windows 98 (not SE) and has always been used on a network. I bought a 56k PCI modem and installed it OK, but dial-up networking on the machine is missing. Going into add/remove programs and clicking on the...

What do I do to stop my W98SE machine from dialing the internet every few minutes? Jim L -- To h___ with Iraqi democracy! Withdraw the troops! Or something!!!

Recently I did a clean install of window 98 SE on my laptop. During the end of the installing it, it asked for me to find and install a group of files for what I think was for the different hardware in the laptop. I.E. modem, infrared port, sound card and etcetera. And I only have 16 colors and...

Hi, been reading a few posts, and realize I made a similar mistake to others. I did a quick restore on our old compaq to give to my sister, but I think it went beyond factory, it seems to have completely erased everything. It is telling me that there is no operating system, and can't find...

What is the difference between the Windows 98 Second Edition upgrade disk and the update disk. I need to re- install Windows 98, and when I did, it was asking for the SE disk. Do I need to use the upgrade or update disk?

I recently installed W98SE on a computer with no operating system. (This is the first time I've done this.) On finishing I tried to install the software from an ATT connection service and got a message that a file 'wisehlp.dll' was not found on the CDROM and the installation of the ATT software...

Hi, I have a digital camera (video/stills) which uses a Hitachi 4GB microdrive for the storage. I can transfer files from it via USB to my XP laptop, as the XP automatically recognises the camera and it comes up as a 'drive letter'. Can anyone tell me how I can do this using my win98 ...