I'm looking at buying a "small form factor PC" which I would kvm with my existing PC. I wish to identify what type of setup incompatibilities I would have. ALso, in searching for such a system, what are the pitfalls to avoid buying less than a fully working system? I basically want a HD,...

Hi Not sure if this is the right newsgroup, but any help appreciated. On starting up a PC , we get the usual dos windows loaded, it then give the following error message:- "While initialising Device VKD, Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer". I checked the FAQ on...

The day after reinstallation of Win98SE (on 2.2 Gb Pentium 4 with 512 Mb RAM) there was a spontaneous reboot while connected on line (phone line) with running: Internet Explorer v.6 RealPlay Magix Audio Cleaner (recording software) I fear possible hardware problems in this PC (new in June) e.g....

A short while ago I was going on about a file named NCOMPARE.EXE which norton seemed to think was infected by a virus and so I allowed it to be quarantined. However I discovered recently due to doing a bit of uninstalling and reinstalling of stuff that this file belongs to Norton system works. It...

In the first installation of 98SE on this machine, the task bar could be dragged up to double height and the the task tabs would rearrange using both "lines" if there were a sufficient number of them. This description may sound vague but it is from memory. Since a reinstall (well over a year...

I am working on localization support in a Java application. One of the buttons displayed by JFileChooser is to go to the "home" directory. In Windows that is interpreted as going to the user's Desktop. The tip text displayed when the mouse cursor hovers over this button is the name of the "home"...

I figured out what the problem was a while ago and I thought I'd share it in case somebody has a similar problem. It turns out that the video card, which is actually an onboard chipset, was bad. It would display 640x480x16 color just fine, but anything above that would cause the computer to crash....

Hi I already used the USB ( win98se ) , but for one or another reason , I lost the functionality ( yellow exclamations !!!) for all usb's .. Is it possible to recover that functionality WITHOUT reinstalling win98se or all the programs attached ? ( reinstall win98se ABOVE the existing programm...

Hi there, I did have the same error on windows 98 and windows me machine : Not enough memory is available. Quit some programs. In the event log of my windows xp machine (who acted like a server) in the event log i have : "The server's configuration parameter "irpstacksize" is too small for the...

i'm trying to automate the installation of 98se. i'm using the following command line: setup /is /nr /IW a:\msbatch.inf it prompts me for a user name, even though one is provided in my msbatch.inf file. it also asks me to accept the license agreement even though i used the /IW switch. finally it...

i'm trying to automate the installation of 98se. i'm using the following command line: setup /is /nr /IW a:\msbatch.inf it prompts me for a user name, even though one is provided in my msbatch.inf file. it also asks me to accept the license agreement even though i used the /IW switch. finally it...

After 3 weeks I finally had my first total win98 meltdown and had to completely reinstall the system. Then it was time to reinstall everything else, so I'm back to the Intel combo PC card. Intel instructions say specifically to start the system and insert the card hot, which worked before. But...

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:35:43 -0500, "Ken Sappio" wrote: (folder), but if it was a clean install of Win9x then there would be no C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND directory. It would be, it would be ... -- Regards, SPAJKY ® & visit my site @ http://www.spajky.vze.com

I would like to eliminate the Games on our 98 and XP machines, so that they cannot be reinstalled without a disk. How can I do this? Thanks.

My DVD drives will not see the folder: VIDEO_TS and it's file extensions of *.BUT, *.IFO, *.VOB written to a DVD-R, instead I see one ..CDA file. On the rare times it has read correctly and played the video files, I copied some of the files to my C, D, and E hard drives to see if I could see and...

I used a friend's Recovery Disk to fix a serious problem problem I had with my computer. Now, it replaced my Win 98 with Win XP. I want to get the Win XP off my computer, and the 98 back on. I can't figure out how to get out of Windows and back to a plain ol' DOS prompt to delete the program, or...

I used a friend's Recovery Disk to fix my computer. It installed Win XP on the computer. I want my Win 98 back. PLEASE someone tell me how to do it.

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In the sample PPP script (I hope this is the one I need to be working with) I find: ; Set this to FALSE if you don't want to get an IP ; address boolean bUseSlip = FALSE Why would I not want to get an IP address - the default of the sample?

"Boris Harss" schreef in bericht and in snip messed up data on a new hd ..... I deleted the content of the old disk..... Is it still possible to run an undeleteprogram on the old hd? For...