I was doing some housekeeping and accidentally deleted the Temp Folder. Now when I boot the Win 98SE computer I get the following DOS window, How can I fix this stupid mistake? I simply don't know how to access a specific folder in a DOS...

I want to build a Windows 98 computer. I'm seeking help finding hardware compatible with Windows 98. I need manufacturer model numbers please. TIA pcbuilder98

Some of the words in my dialog boxes are missing or faded. The 3 boxes at the top right hand corner are blank. Everything works fine as long as I can remember what box to click on. It gets confusing even trying to correct the problem because I can't see what I am doing. Help! I'am running...

Sometime over the last week, I have lost all sound from my Pc and do not have a clue where to start looking. Could someone point me in the right direction? Paul Dulong

Hi All, I'm looking to increase my memory and have come across the infamous error that means Windows 98SE throws a wobbly when more than 512MB is installed. I've read the work-arounds but can anyone explain, do you still get the benefit from having more than 512MB RAM? In my limited understand...

The PC will shut down (complete) without any problems. When I try to restart in MS-Dos, the machine hangs with one task open called "Winoldap". I try to end this task and although Winoldap disappears from the task window, the PC just sits there with the empty desktop until I power the PC down. ...

I went back to my old computer after a few months on my new one. At that time I removed only the hard drive. So now, with my new one on the sidelines, I thought of putting back the hard drive, which I had made a slave on the new. It was partitioned and thats all. Now, when i tried to boot the...

Running Win98 P4 Athlon 2000+ All else seems to be OK. When I download a zipped file and unzip it and have a .inf file displayed in the directory in MY COMPUTER directory display, A right click on that file does NOT have an install option.

I left out my system as is. Its P4 800, 512mb, 2.8 gig mhz with usb 2.0 ports.

Under IEToolsConnections, the setting of "Always Dial my default connection" keeps changing to "Never dial....". This happens several times a day. Any ideas why? FACE

I keep getting this error. EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module CQGWIZ.DLL at 0167:10017d00. EAX=01427c44 CS=0167 EIP=10017d00 EFLGS=00010256 EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0141f82c EBP=01427c78 ECX=01427c44 DS=016f ESI=00000003 FS=2527 EDX=20261430 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000 Bytes at...

Win98SE Performance suffers when things don't play well together. Has anyone noticed a compatibility problem running the AVG7.0 "Control Center" (defaults to startup menu and minimized in systray) and Agent 1.7 (or other releases)? FACE

My arch-enemy has posted a thread in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general under subject Need help - suffering from Virtual Memory problem (SP2) In which he describes his problem whereby virtual memory is gobbled up until eventually his WXP system fails (freezes). I find that my W98SE...

I was attempting to backup my Windows98 Favorites onto a floppy, when I got this error message: "Cannot copy (file name) : Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." The named file was without a link icon (the blue "e" with the arrow), which indicated...

I just upgraded the memory in one of my Win98 systems from 768 to 1GB. Windows does not load with 1GB of RAM. I tried the MaxPhysPage=40000 ... it made no difference. To get Windows to load, I have to limit the amount of memory to 905MB ( and System Properties only reports 898MB ). I know...

Hi, Do you think a huge registry (62MB when saved in a .reg file (exported)) would affect the performance of the computer? Like the speed at start-up? Thanks.

Experts: I am having an intermittent but persistant problem with Windows 98se "freezing" when playing video clips. Most often play stops and mouse clicks have no effect. Ctrl-Alt-Del will NOT bring up the running program list but 3 Ctrl-Alt-Dels WILL reboot the system normally without running...

I need to know the a-b-c to getting a hosts file working. My windows directory is not named windows. I have followed the web instructions. Internet Explorer still brings up a file that i tried to put in there for 127.0.0.1. It is "solitairecentral.com" Any ideas?

I hope this is the right group to post this to. Does anyone know why the .WMV files load so slowly in media player ( win98 and WMP 7.1)? It takes about 1 minute to load and start playing, could it be some codec I need? I use irfanview to run mpg and other files and they load and run in about 1...

Can someone pls advise a software program to recover data from an accidentally erased external HDD? -- Slave to the Machine ;-)