I recently purchased an HP Omnibook 6000 off ebay, when I received it I found a pirated copy of Windows XP Home on the drive and a Win98SE COA Label on the bottem of the machine. HP has been no help in finding a replacment OS to use with my COA I was hoping someone here could help me. My end goal...

hi. i am looking at buying a Q-tech intel celeron d331 brand new computer. but i am wandering if directX 9 will work on it. i have a new laptop and it works on that. will it on any new computer that i buy from a shop? help. spoon

Help!! A couple of days ago our computer would start but had terrible colors & font sizes and when we went into the control panel there was no option to change them like there ususally is. I ran our Detect & Repair CD to see if the diagnostic program could pick up any isues but all of the tests...

Anyone using firefox 1.5 have this happen? Computer reboot without any warning. I have checked for spyware, viruses, adaware, e.t.c. None found. It has only happen when I using firefox. I am not visting bad site. This is the site I visted

Windows starts normally with no problems, but as soon as you start any application program, anything... An invalid win32 aplication error comes. This happened after I remowed a virus, and after that i havent been able to do anything on that computer. I tried to restore the file with backup, but...

I have an old Proteva computer to fix up for my grand kids. I checked out the hard drive and it is fine. I zeroed it out and fdisked and formatted it. When Windows 98 SE install program gets to where I put in the Product Key, Windows crashes. It says msgsrv32 cause a general protection fault in...

i know quicktime isn't a microsoft program, but where might i find a version of it that will run with windows 98SE? i went to the quicktime website (www.apple.com/quicktime/), but the only offerings they have for windows require windows 2000 (or newer)... ideas &/or suggestions?

"Vince" wrote: According to Microsoft Security Advisory (912840): Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx Win98/SE is vulnerable to the 0 day exploit using crafted .wmf graphics...

I have an old notebook (~ 1998) running Win98. It has one PCMCIA Type I slot. Does anyone know someone who sells a wireless network card for this notebook? CardBus won't work. Also, the notebook doesn't have a USB port. Thanks, Don Culp

I'm having problems running windows 98SE. The PC acts as if it's booting normally, then all of a sudden I get an an error message that says "The program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vender". When I click on the...

I am still usung EZ4.05 which is the max upgrade from 2.x. Am having no problems sence I got rid of the LG burner. One thing you might try out is slow down both the read and burn speeds. The new burners are too fast sometimes. The burner I'm useing,and really like,I ripped out of an old...

Back when MS was going to originally stop support for Win98 (I think it was June 04). About this time of year before the end-support date IE would come up with errors/faults while on the net. Then MS extended the end-support date to June 06 and the IE errors and faults went away. Did anyone notice...

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:28:36 -0700, "Bill in Co." wrote: Try reinstalling it. And why are you posting this on the win98 or winXP general newsgroups? Perfect,ly sensible. Probably because there is always the possibility that something which has changed on his...

Normally I would not get into this debate. People have asked for court cases as prove. According to this site. They have court cases as prove. (Sorry if duplicate post) On this page they claim their software is genuine and even give the Microsoft piracy address.

I would like a Widnows 98 TSR or way to force the mouse to emulate the arrow keys I/E., that when the mouse is turned to the right, a game that uses the arrows keys will see the rihght arrow pressed down, and conversly, the same for the left. I would like to use it a game called POD, that uses the...

Went to the URL for Pest Patrol and did a scan. Found multidial. Searches turned up no way to rid this. got spybot and ad-aware, neither found it. so what is it? Is it bad? Do I need to get rid of it? How? - Robert -

Hi Group.. Have a question to put you all. At work we use a very large date orientated database and the other day it was found that the PC clock year had changed from 2006 to 2020 and as you can imagine it caused a few problems. My question is how can the PC clock change the year? The time,...

Mike Richter wrote: CD Guy wrote: At some point between 2 to 4 weeks ago, a problem has developed with Easy CD Creator 5.x on a Win-98 computer. Others have chastised you for posting to the universe as a whole; The only inappropriate group (out of 5) I originally posted to was an XP...

Strange request I assume. I need to know where I can obtain an upgrade for my "Smithsonian" Compaq computer. Don't know where to find the upgrade. I don't think it can handle anything newer and I have three other computers which are living in dorms through out the country.

Hi! My computer shuts down with no reason whenever it wants. On shut down I get this massege: *** STOP: 0X0000001E (0XC0000005, 0XEB8F45D0, 0X00000000, 0X0028DB47) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDED ***Address EB8F34D0 base at EB8F4000, Datestamp 43b44ba7 - i386p.sys Beginning dump of physical memory