I have a client that has a WINDOWS 98SE Laptop. He has been using the laptop for years to connect to a handful of XP Pro computers using the Win98 RD Client. Suddenly he is getting the message "The client could not connect to the remote computer ..." on about 50% of the computers he tries to...

My routers wont work via USB due to not having a new enough OS, so i bought an Ethernet card and just stuck it in place - How do i now get the internet to go through the Ethernet card rather than just wanting dial up info? I've tried to add a network to see if that works, but nope, tried to get the...

I am sending this question via another computer because my home computer (OS Windows 98SE) will not allow me to enter the Windows Update Website, nor the Newsgroups Website. I can successfully surf the internet except for these two websites. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

While attempting to upgrade McAfee Internet Security Suite from Version 6 to Version 7, Privacy Service would not install. I consulted the Knowledge Base at McAfeeHelp.com and proceeded to perform a manual full uninstall of McAfee including edits to the registry. Since then I have been getting...

I do live in a country which has blocked (filtered) by governmet reaching to the following site: http://www.voanews.com/ Voice of America Is there any way to reach this site from another route? Also it will be highly appreciated if you could kindly forward to VOA headoffice as I cant do this from...

The connection to my service provider locks up for 10+ seconds regularly. Sometimes re-booting my newsreader is necessary to re-connect. What could be causing this ? (Downloading large files does not suffer from this problem, however..) Thanks

This problem is sending me crazy. Every time I turn on the computer (Win 98) my dial-up program prompts me to dial in. It tries to do this at least 20 times every time the computer is switched on. Pressing Cancel 20 times every time I switch on is very annoying. Any help most appreciated.

Hi, I run win98se on a computer that's connected to a simple peer-to-peer lan through which an ADSL connection is shared. All works well when browsing the internet until after some time. Then browsing is tedious as I have to refresh the page in Internet Explorer a few times to load the...

I installed Ad-Aware since it is so f'quently endorsed by MSNG MVP's. Being a noncomplit Newbie, I'm finding the program's large Help regime overplexing. I've tried accessing Tomcoyote forum and forumSpyware but no responses yet. I think I could work thru it if I could get past one sticking point:...

CAN'T FORWARD OR SEND IMAGES RECEIVED IN E-MAIL. TEXT WILL GO BUT NOT THE IMAGES.

Today I "looked in" on one of my fav' web sites to catch up on the forum, to be able to read the posts I have to move the scroll bar at the bottom of the page, (very annoying), I can't remember having to do this before. Can I configure the page to remove the scroll bar and read the whole...

New to newsgroups, currently using OE6, researching other apps like 40tude etc. Question is re groups that share non-text materials -- mp3s, images, etc from alt.binaries.whatever -- are there any SOPs to avoid malicious items (please assume I'vr graduated from Advanced Beginner Security...

Back in the days of dial-up, my thinkpad used to show a modem icon in the systray, convenient for indicating speed etc. Is there an equivalent icon/indicator for cable modem connections? (connected to modem via ethernet cable & PCMCIA lancard) Cheers

After updrading my daugher's hard disk I formated and installed W98SE. Than I updated the IE from microsoft web with an ie6...exe file. ICS that had worked okay with formar disk and installation does not work well on this installation. The host is W98SE. The client is XP pro. The XP PRO does not...

Hi guys afters using a program called AD AWARE eliminate spwyware on my computer i foind i could no longer access any chatrooms whatsoever. I don't know how to rectify this problem please help..

Internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. Info may be lost. (a check box is present to Restart Explorer which has shut down.) Please tell Microsoft. To see what data this error contains click here. Then 2 boxes appeareither Send error report or dont send. In any case one has...

When Windows starts and I click on The icon for BT basic connection i have "Error (87)" reported. If i remove the USB cable from BT Voyager 105 USB ADSL modem then replace it I can then connect ?? Does anyone have a fix please

My nephew bought a used computer from a friend and everything wored fine for him untill he tryed to connect to the internet, it dials up but won't connect, he's running windows 98 and i tryed to upgrade it to me. but most his files stays 98, anyway I brought it home and hooked it up and it...

I recently installed Norton IS 2004 but couldnt connect to internet to activate as everytime I tried to dial up the PC froze. Intexp. fine once the antivirus software uninstalled. After reading similar horror stories on web decided that W98 (2nd ed) and NIS incompatible. Got refund and bought...

I have gone to a site that sends me a cookie when I log in for the firs time. I do not log out of the site. I leave 'that' cookie in the folder. When I return to that site, the site acts as if the cookie is not in my folder (I assume that my browser did not send the cookie as it should) and...