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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities by [email protected]
Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to...
May 4th 10 10:08 PM
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windows fails to fully boot by gswank1
I have a win98se machine that I bought new from gateway. I recently upgraded the old intel board to a suitable asus p3v4x board. Before I did I accidently erased the hd drive. I fdisked and formatted it. Reinstalled 98se and downloaded many updates from microsoft. I thought I should defrag...
March 4th 10 04:54 PM
by Ben Myers[_5_] Go to last post
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Can't Start Windows, No Way, No How - HELP! by Arlykat
Hi. I have a computer I haven't run for about a year. It got plugged in and out, disconnected things, connected them back, etc. thru the year. When I now want to start it up to copy or move all of my important pics/info so I can give the computer to a friend, Windows won't start. It is Win. 98...
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April 22nd 08 12:37 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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In either forum, quite frankly by manoj
In either forum, quite frankly, the vast majority of the topics are so old that no one would be responding to them anyway, in which case there's nothing wrong with read-only. If any of those topics have a need to arise again, it's probably easier for someone to just start up a new topic here...
January 24th 10 12:27 AM
by Hot-text Go to last post
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windows 98 floppy disk version by DanT
I have a windows 98 CD version, but my laptop won't boot from a cd and there's no way to make it. Is there any way I can make or get Windows 98 on floppy disks?
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September 24th 07 03:08 AM
by 98 Guy Go to last post
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Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive? by DJW
My laptop's internal DVD player stopped working a year or more ago. It is not a software problem but hardware that was confirmed already. Now my laptop will not boot. The battery is dead and the cord became unplugged from the transformer as it was starting up. Now it asks for the A drive floppy...
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February 29th 08 06:42 PM
by J. P. Gilliver Go to last post
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Uninvited desktop icon rearrangement by who where[_2_]
Over the years I have some issues with these critters. On advice received in this or the other W98 group, I installed a small app (whose name I forget) that saved the layout and restores it from a Rt-Clk seelction on MyComputer. This works a treat in recovering from those occasions when things go...
September 29th 12 02:41 AM
by who where[_2_] Go to last post
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windows 98 se by silvia
I was cleaning my computer and accidently erase windows explorer and dont have a start up disk only the key how can i fix it.
March 5th 13 08:24 PM
by OldTechiePA Go to last post
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USB Driver on Startup Floppy? by JorgeA
Hello, I'm looking for good instructions on how to load a USB driver onto a Windows 98SE startup floppy disk. The idea is to use a USB thumb drive instead of the CD drive, if and when it becomes necessary to reinstall the operating system (hard disk failure, etc.). Or else if I decide to upgrade...
April 1st 10 07:48 PM
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Antivirus software for 98 by 98 Guy
Don't be a jack-ass by multi-posting. Why didn't you cross-post instead? Jack wrote: What type of antivirus software do people using 98 use now that Norton and AVG no longer support 98? There are no "drive-by" vulnerabilities that affects Windows 98. Never
January 9th 10 05:11 AM
by 98 Guy Go to last post
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No product key by Marie
have a windows 98 startup wizard page that requires a product key. don't have one and don't know how to bypass this problem
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December 31st 07 06:57 PM
by Claude Balls[_2_] Go to last post
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Antivirus software for 98 by Jack[_3_]
What type of antivirus software do people using 98 use now that Norton and AVG no longer support 98? My 98 machine still outperforms my XP significantly.
January 9th 10 02:09 AM
by Jack[_3_] Go to last post
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windows 98 se by silvia
I was cleaning my computer and accidently erase windows explorer and dont have a start up disk only the key how can i fix it.
January 12th 10 06:04 AM
by Ben Myers[_5_] Go to last post
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Dual booting Win 98 & 2000 by kleefarr
Right, so to cut out all of the fiddling about, I decided to backup everything and have completely erased the HDD. I have managed to install Win 98 as far as the 'restart after copying files' and then got the error message... 'Insufficient memory to initialize Windows. Quit one or more...
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July 13th 09 11:16 AM
by kleefarr Go to last post
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0028:c003157d by DGM
During shut down the message eror OE 0028:C003157D appears on a win98 se dektop system. What should I do to fix the problem? Thanks to all
April 16th 10 07:02 PM
by DGM Go to last post
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windows fails to fully boot by gswank1
I have a win98se machine that I bought new from gateway. I recently upgraded the old intel board to a suitable asus p3v4x board. Before I did I accidently erased the hd drive. I fdisked and formatted it. Reinstalled 98se and downloaded many updates from microsoft. I thought I should defrag...
March 3rd 10 10:12 AM
by gswank1 Go to last post
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Need help to help "Windows Setup requires 7340" by dlsayremn
I am trying to help johnorun at TechGuy.net who is trying to install 98SE on an old computer. Did a google, but couldn't find anything, but a site (2008 Global.net or experts-exchange.com) that gave popup need to download Activex Control to view ( I bit)win32 Trojan Downloader: FakeAlert.NP...
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October 31st 08 04:45 PM
by dlsayremn Go to last post
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Backing up my file configurations by SlickRCBD[_3_]
I had a few custom things set up so that I could open .DOC files in Wordpad by default, or right click and choose "Open with OpenOffice". I just decided to move my office suite from the installation of Windows 95 under Virtual PC on my old Powermac 6500 to a Windows 98SE computer so I could try to...
November 11th 09 12:04 PM
by SlickRCBD[_3_] Go to last post
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unable to upgrade to Win98SE from Win95 by Rex Ripplinger
-----Original Message----- I found this out. You need to find a Windows 98 upgrade CD, not the normal OEM version. -----Original Message----- I am unable to upgrade my Win95 v2.0 installation to Win98SE using an OEM Win98SE CD for which I have a certificied licence. I really do not
June 3rd 04 05:38 PM
by Jake Go to last post
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product codes by Darrin
I just got a new hard drive for my computer, it had windows 98 on it, then upgraded to XP, I am having to reinstall 98 first and don't have the product code, I have them for xp, I was directed here to check into it, I could use a product key any help is appriciated thanks
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March 28th 09 01:52 PM
by 98 Guy Go to last post
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