Turned on the computer today and it gets stuck when trying to load Windows. Restarted and it goes into safe mode so that I hope is a good sign. I defragged and restarted and still Windows will not load. I had this problem a few months back and then it just corrected itself. Some time after that,...

I got a PC from the HSN...Proteva. I took off the back-up by misstake. Now to reinstall Window 98 it wants me to give my windows 98 ID....I've tried everything. This is above the bar code is CMP-13457...below is Proteva Custom 98 PC with W02239-6130-064-100-HSN 29-10-80. What am I to do? Any help...

My computer is bringing up and error and the cd rom drive isnt working, the error reads, shellexe\target.dill cd play notify. how can i fix this problem is it in the windows or is it a faulty cd rom drive.

I was having trouble getting windows to start my computer would power down instead. I have a gateway, and have windows 98 se. I tried to do safe mode but would not take it. so I used a system restore cd, and now all I get is "this file if missing or corrupt" windows/dblbuff.sys,windows/ifshld.sys,...

I've been trying to get Windows 98 SE onto this box forever. Basically, it's an old sony vaio that had win98 se on it then the hard drive failed. I replaced the hard drive, but of couse didn't have the recovery CDs. So I tried to install win 98 se on it all the normal ways (boot to floppy, run...

When viewing some folders as a Web page view some display correctly ie small icon left top, blue sky fade left top correct fonts and multi coloured stripe. Other folders show large icon left top, large font for folder description thin black line width 80% width of screen & no background. Is there...

Having cleaned up my hard drive I can no longer access the computor as on boot up the desktop background is empty except for a message 'windows needs to be reinstalled' followed by a box saying 'A required.Dll file, MSVCRT.DLL' was not found. All is then frozen and I can only shut down with the...

my hd died and warranty repair replaced the harddrive and reloaded the factory software. I installed my usb harddrives and then tried backup in system tools. says sees no devices yet device mgr. sees them and I can write to the usb devices. I uninstalled backup and rebooted and reinstalled...

How can I get Windows98 to give me the prompt box on whether to boot to Win98 or to DOS on bootup. I have DOS 6.22 installed on the Hard Drive prior to the installation of Windows98 full addition. I used to have a computer that did this quite a while back but I cannot remember how to configure...

Please help! Whenever I start my computer up I get a message System.ini file no longer exists and windows will not work properly. I don't even know what file I got rid of that deleted that file. How do I fix this?

We have a Sony DSC-P71 camera that was working previously w/ Windows 98 via a USB cable to download images. Recently the computer would freeze when connecting, and we had to power-cycle the machine to regain control. Sometimes the downloads would work, other times it would require a power switch...

Was not looking whilst I was testing out my new mouse and the task bar disappeared when I looked at the monitor. Tried running the mouse up to make it reappear without success. What is the trick to getting it back? Thanks!

Greetings, well, I've spent a few hours trawling the Net and newsgroups for an answer to my problem, but to no avail... so I decided to actually ask. I am trying to upgrade a NEC Versa Note (PII 233) from WIn95 to Win98SE. Windows 95 worked fine on this machine. Upgrade ran smoothly, then the...

How can I control RealPlayer, on occasions when my machine is running slow and I check task manager i can find 10 or more copies of RealPlayer have loaded in the background. ?

My son's laptop has now started asking for the Microsoft product key, but when I enter it, I get an error stating that it is not valid. I don't have the product key from the original install, as it was done at Toshiba and cannot find the original documentation. The key that I enter is from an...

my computer is stuck in safe mode after i installed panda anti virus software. how do i get it to run on normal mode now sal

Have an old PC that had Win98 preloaded, now corrupted. Borrowed Win98 CD but need the starter / boot disk - cannot find on MS web site. Where can I find a Win98 startup disk image that I can download?

I am trying to help my 62 y/o friend; need to get systum back to normal state, when rebooting, I get this msg: "Accessibility Error" "Cannot load the enable2.vxd module" & "nwserver.vxd". The sys asks for W98SE CD-Rom but he does not know where it is... I am an amature. UR assist...

Well my computer has 2 OS's on it. 1.win98SE 2.win2000 Pro. CPU:AMD 450MHz RAM:60MB HD:7.35GB Video:onboard Audio:Onboard(but using an ISA sound card.) CD-Rom 1 52X USB:Yes(2)

Why do I receive errors with EVERYTHING I do in Windows? I get DW15 error, Lexplorer error, explorer error. Is MS a joke? They must have named it "Windows" because that is where you want to throw your computer. I spend more time troubleshooting than working!