Hi, The drop down menu of the "find computer" window has all the computers listed I ever searched for. I'd like to clear the list of all these computer names. How do I do that? Thanks, AJS

I have two W98 systems, with two very different IE Favorites Folder. I want to combine the IE Favorites folder that is each machine, into a single Folder. In other words, append, versus export/import. When I use import/export, as expected, one folder overwrites the other--which is exactly what I...

my machine opens to and request that i type comman interpert to load windows, with a ie (c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND WHAT DO I TYPE?

hello, I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time. When booting the following shows up (after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs) any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks. CPU=Pentium II 300 mhz

My customer is starting to upgrade their pc's to Windows Vista. In the past, under XP and using Excel, they provided a tab-delimited file as input to my inkjet system that uses Windows 98. No problem! Now under Vista, using Excel (2007) I can read the file, but it doesn't recognize it as...

Hello, I cannot get windows to boot up (other than safe mode) and it tells me this - "Compatibility Mode Paging reduces overall system performance" for all my disks. I tried the microsoft site and it seems that the Esdi_506.pdr fix will do the trick but it isn't available!! Can anyone point me in...

I have Windows 98SE. My system got locked up and so I Control/Alt/Deleted to reboot. When it rebooted, it got the screen that shows what is in the autoexec.bat file and just stayed there. So, I Control/Alt/Deleted again, pressed F8 to get the safe mode menu. I choose to go into safe mode. Once...

My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service - BIOS problem I think. I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and connected it to my XP Pro laptop. The drive has several partitions on it, most of which are FAT32 or FAT - these are all readable. But one...

I have a Compaq Presario 1245 Laptop. It has a C: drive as usual and then I had created an additional D: drive to put new programs, and the various printers, fax software, scanners, etc in. I find this made it easier to find things when we swapped out to new or additional stuff and I was...

Computer does not recognize hard drive. No new software or installations. What could be the problem.

My computer doesn't reconize cd rom present, this was sudden and they have been working. Can't find icons they are missing. nothing in explorer to indicate cd roms present. Does not show drives. Please help dont know what happened. Curently running os 98. previously happened while running windows...

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 hope someone will be able to help me, when i turn on my computer the following message appears: "Incorrect System Disc please insert correct disc and press any key to continue" i can do nothing, then. i don't have a system disc, it won't load up windows. Please help Tim

This is a kind of unusual problem. My brother in law has a laptop he purchased used with Windows 98 already installed. He did not get a disk. The other day he wanted to use some new program and was told to insert his Windows 98 disk -- he couldn't, of course. When he was over here he asked me if...

I have Windows 98E and Office 97. My computer frequently freezes in all programs as well as email and IE. I have run scan disk numerous times and that straightens it out for a while, but then it starts all over again. Even the shut down program freezes. I have to manually turn it off and have...

it will load games and other things, but not music CD's anymore. Please help!

Hi, Running Windows 98SE Pentium II 160 MB Ram I had a 40 GB hard drive go bad a Maxtor (DiamondMax Plus 40 Ultra ATA 66 7200 rotational speed). Went to Staples they installed a Maxtor 120GB (DiamondMax Plus

Hi, I have a Quantum "Fireball" 1.2GB HDD that went bad. I got a message regarding a problem with the "controller". I swapped the controller (same controller) from a similar HDD and I still get the same message. I am trying to recover some files on the HDD. Could a hardware fault cause a...

Hi all, I am writing with a problem that needs expert help to solve: I have a hard drive that cannot be accesed in Windows 98 but I can access from from a dos prompt when I boot with the Win98 install disk. What I want to do is to copy certain files, directories,

I have a directory with over 600 folders. I want to copy about 200 of these folders with names that all start with the letter K(incl all subfolders and files) I tried xcopy c:\directoy\K???? d:\directory /s/v but it didn't work. Is their a syntax that will work or is there another way to do a batch...