I am having a problem of windows restarting itself instead of shuting down, I tried to shutdown by pressing start and then selecting shutdwon but it restarts. Is there any fix to this problem?

When starting my laptop ( IBM 390E) after the desktop comes on and all the icons are on I keep getting the following fatal error: A fatal exception 0D has occurred at 0028:000028EA in VXD VMM(01) + 000018EA. I am using Windows 98SE and have 128 meg ram and on a local network. Any help would be...

The tool bar where my clock is located, lower right corner of screen, is getting very cluttered. How can I remove these items but still have access to them when I want? Such as Up Dates by HP by backweb, volume control, ect.

Hello I've got this message on the last to starts. C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\Reboot.exe Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied. The system seem to work okay after canceling message??

Could someone tell me what causes a computer to boot up in Safe mode instead of booting into Windows? Thanks DJ

For the past few weeks, when I hit the start button to shut down, it hangs for about a minute before I can click to shut down. I've already downloaded the patch for windows shutdown. I have win 98SE. What can I do?

I have an older computer operating on WIN 98 SE. I installed an ethernet kit and hooked it up to dsl and all was good til the cd rom went out. I changed it, and now nothing works, i had to reinstall the ethernet kit and i kept getting the error "insert win 98 disc" which I did NOT have! I some how...

Sometimes due to an improper shutdown (even outage), or sometimes due to causes unknown, when I boot up cold, I am forced into Safe Mode. And, of course, if I then shutdown to full restart, it will then boot up in normal mode just fine. But I am curious - what is actually happening here? Why does...

I have three files in my Windows\Help folder that I think are bogus: cod3pm.ini, mp3doc.exe (notice this is cod3pm spelled backwards), and expdisk.exe. Expdisk.exe is deletable. Cod3pm.ini is deletable, but keeps coming back, leaving copies of itself in the wastebasket. Mp3doc.exe cannot be...

ok so my computer gets to the start up screen and just when you think it's going to start it goes blank. If I start the computer in safe mode it boots up properly, in normal mode it does not. help :(

When I want to shut down my system , it goes right back into post again. How do i stop that?

Things have been really buggy since the corrupted registry. Anyone know why on-line streaming audio from radio stations quits without warning? jrp

Looking for help with this device. First question: What is it? Second question: How do I install the drivers for it? This is listed under Device Manager tab in System Properties. PCI communication device has a yellow exclamation mark beside it. Not sure what else I can tell you at this point....

Hi, I have a muti-media CD (data and music) that I used to access in 95 but not anymore in 98! I'd like to see the video data that was on the disk but 98 keeps calling it a audio CD. What can I do, thanks.

A colleague is running a PIII 500 PC with 320MB RAM on an IDE hard drive, Win98se & all the updates. She's found that when typing (either in Word or OE6; not sure whether this happens in other apps), the machine will hang for a short while, then change to allow the mouse to move, but not enable...

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...

How can I remove a user password from multiple user settings? There are prompts on how to add a password for a second user of the computer but no option on removing the password or user.

For the last several weeks I have been unable to view my original JPEP photos. I have tried the 'file option' but can not get JPEG to install. In fact, when I try, the computer tells me the file already exisits. There seems to be no way I can get the photos to return to the JPEG format....

Hello! I posted this problem under another topic - Gen. Discussion. And, received a reply (ty Alan... :o), that unfortunately didn't do the trick. Prob: I can't left click the C folder in My Computer, open. Right click just fine, but when I left click a small window appears asking which...

Hello, I am a novice computer person trying to learn from the beginning and i am comeing across a little problem. my computer runs win98 and it will boot to the desktop. but after all pgmseem to load a window called untitled paint opens up. I have went into start/setting/tsk bar and strtup and...