Lighting struck my neighbors tree and it has messed up my machine. I have reinstalled windows over the top of itself by booting right off the cd. Now I have some programs that need to be reinstalled and some that don't. What I'm wondering is if there's anything I can do to "restore" all my programs...

i sent the coupon off back in 98 to get in windows 98 on floppies as at the time i didn't have a cdrom drive - i still don't as the system is too old to support one! since then floppies 1,7,9,10 have all given up the chase and died, any ideas where i could get replacment ones or download them off...

I received the following error message when my system opened. This is a new one for me! Please advise. "MOTIVEDIRECTORY caused an invalid page fault in module unknown at 0000:1002af30. Registers: EAX=000053f7 CS=017f EIP=1002af30 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=01a9faaa SS=0187 ESP=01a9fa54...

I've currently got Windows 98 (original) installed on another PC of mine. I need to update to Windows 98 SE before I can network it and get it online. I know Microsoft offers a update to the original Windows 98 to change it to SE online to download, but you have to have the computer that has...

I would like to find a backup program that would allow me to choose the folders that I want to backup, and then would let me burn them to a cd. The only other requirements would be that it was simple and inexpensive (read FREE) I would appreciate any suggestions of products that people are using...

I get the following message when booting up: A Fatal Exception OE occurred at 0167:00000001 I can not start in safe mode either. Can anyone help?

Hi all, I am loading WinInet.dll since wininet.lib is included in my project, but there are 2 versions of this lib, one in XP and an old one for ie 5.0. The old one only has only a call to InternetSetCookie() as the new one has both InternetSetCookie() and When the programs starts, before I can...

I have a computer currently running Windows 98 1st edition, I need to upgrade the operating system in order to be able to use the machine for broadband internet. I cannot risk loosing any of the applications or data stored on the machine currently. I have a Window 98se disk that came with another...

like I say i nead help with this :!? i want to insatal win 98 on my USB stic (512MB) can I ? i try but i don't now how? any idea?? -- ************************************************************************************** visit:::::........ http://www.infokladionica.com/

I have posted this to several Win98 newsgroups, because I am not sure which one is the most appropriate. I have an older computer on which Win98 is running. This system basically crashed after an attempt to re-install a printer that was giving me a problem. I have tried re-installing Win98...

Hey Ron Badour, When you say: Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo But when I went ther it said: Basic Search Options To use the basic search, type the keywords that you would expect to find in the pages that contain your answer. The maximum search string...

My boot floppy disk will not run my cd rom to re-install windows. It says the OEMCD001 drive is missing. How do I fix this?

"RJ" wrote: I have a registered copy of Win98SE and would like to migrate to WindowsXP Pro. If I want to minimize the effort to make this transistion, what are my best bets? Can I buy the upgrade version, or can I also upgrade using a full featured version? Or does the full featured...

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.

I am constanly getting a error message that i need to modifty my computer and the setup will be terminate. and the antispyware installion were interuped. What can I do?

when i install windows 98,from a retail cd,the games folder is not in the start menu,I have explored the cd,and found the sampler,but how do you get the origanal games back?bought new computer from a shop,and it came with a full license win 98 cd,out of the box it had the games,now after redoing...

My win 98 installation disk is damaged and will not play and I now need to do a clean install. On the original installation I agreed to transfer the cd to the CD drive and when I look at the C:\windows\options I can see all the cab files. Can I copy these to a CD and use this as an istallation disk?

I've apparently been "virused," and my PC keeps losing its configuration. Support helped me restore a backup by going into DOS, step-by-step configuration, and selecting a backup date to employ. I failed to write down the steps for doing this, and now I'm back in the same boat. Does anyone know...

I have a Windows98 on a harddisk (1 Gb). I tried to install Windows XP. Since their was not enough space on the harddisk the installation procedure stopped. But in the MBR I can still see WindowsXP and Windows98. Question: How can I remove the WindowsXP entry from the MBR? Henk

After Installing Windows 98 I get the following message: "fatal exception 0E has occured at xxxxxx in VXD VWIN32(5) +00003554" Thanks for your help please, Marc