Mediamon wrote: Hi. I just posted this to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq. Now I am finding other newsgroups that this topic is appropriate. But not sure how to forward original post to other related newsgroups without crossposting. Cross posting is in fact the best...

Hi, I'm trying to setup a Dell Optiplex GX520, to multi-boot Windows98, 2000, XP pro. I found the knowledgebase entry on microsoft's website, for setting this up. I made 3 partitions. First one is FAT32, and the other two are NTFS. When I try to install the first OS(Win98) on the first partition,...

by mistaken i change excel properties to notepad. by right clicking on it i am able to open it with this option:open using microsoft excel for windows but the icon displayed for excel sheet is same as that for notepad. so pls help to change the icon of notepad to excel

by mistaken i change excel properties to notepad. by right clicking on it i am able to open it with this option:open using microsoft excel for windows but the icon displayed for excel sheet is same as that for notepad. so pls help to change the icon of notepad to excel

Hi all, I have a win98se machine, ASUS P5A-B motherboard, 450mhz K6-2 chip, 107 PCI/AGP Blade vid card, and this problem has been there since first building this box. It seems I did a registry hack to reverse the diplay setting, but now can't remember exactly what I was told so many years...

Greetings; My brother has a Gateway computer many years old which has win98 installed and is not capable of USB 2.0 for an external backup disk. I have a win98se CD. Am I able to upgrade his machine to win98se from this CD? If so, how? and are there any special things I need to know in order...

In folder right-click mouse, will popup a menu. I dont know why today lose(miss) two import item in popup menu. a, "send to-- desktop shortcut" item is lose. b. "new -- folder, text file, ......" item is lose. I check disk two folder is there. but why miss in menu?

Is it possible to copy psapi.dll from some XP machine, to my win98 system directory and gain support which usually missed in win98? Thanks Gimi

Hi: I hope somebody can help, I have an old Compaq laptop that is ready to die, but I need to grab a few files from it. Everytime I try to boot, it drops into Registry Checker, tells me a good registry has been restored, and asks for restart, but on restart it keeps dropping back into Registry...

Hi - My internal floppy drive failed so I replaced it with an external drive (USB) I changed my BIOS to have "ATAPI CD-ROM Drive" as my first boot selection. I have my original start-up floppy that I got with my Win.98SE and know I can make floppies from - settings-ad remove etc. If I crash my USB...

After a brief flirtation with Kazaa, now suddenly random words on the net show up as blue "links". I've uninstalled Kazaa, used Kazaabegone, Adaware, but this is still ocurring. Any idea how to get rid of it? Thanks.

Where do I tell Win98SE to not open a new window every time I navigate to a different folder? Thanks.

how do I upgrade my BIOS so I can use larger hard drives?

snip Ran fine but very SLLOWW. Could hardly refresh/repaint screen. Scrounged up 128 more memory & popped in. Still terribly slow switching tasks, or just a c to d drive explorer copy - hours! Used Sandra to discover just being in W98 is taking up ALL memory!! Looked to task mgr to...

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:08:26 -0400, DonLogan wrote: I have an older machine, on my modest 2 machine network, that I use for utility work & longer computer-intensive tasks. Not mission-critical, but I sure hate to have it off-line. It's W98 (not SE) & has been running...

I installed IE6 on top of the existing IE 5.5 installation in a W98SE system in one of my computers. Now, all Internet accessibility via my DSL account with the computer involved has become disrupted. My guess is that a driver somehow got messed up but I would appreciate a step-by-step...

Just installed drivers for Hewlett Packard 640C printer...do text in Notepad/Wordpad...click print..prints ok..click print again...won't print! Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi, I just added Win98SE to my Win2k system in a dual boot configuration. Win2k still works which is good since that is my primary system. The basic Win98SE works except for the network. During installation I got the usual "Unknown Device" errors, most of which were fixed when I installed the...

I've got the same problem as Greg, exactly the same. And sorry, but I was unable to find a suitable solution from the hints and links that were suggested in the reply. Moreover, as that topic seems to be closed, I hope someone will provide me a better answer... need it!

I just setup a old computer in a new computer tower. But when i went to boot it up it saids it fail and i don't know why. All the pins are ok when i took a look at them. I try three other floppy drives and it said the same thing. Is it the cable to the floppy or could it be the mother board...