After installing a friends comp with 98 everything was going fine until the pc was set to stand by. On trying to re-open all i get is a blank screen. The system was turned off and turned on again but all i get is a blank screen. The Hard drive light comes on for about two seconds then nothing. I...

Hi All, I have a very big problem with my laptop us WinME OS. I last used it 4 days ago, but I guessed I did not do a proper shutdown. ie just turn off the 3 pin power but I do not feel this is the main cause. Now, upon powering up, it goes to WinME welcome screen followed by a startup...

I have a subdirectory with 400mb of files and additional directories. Appear to be the install program for programs and patches I have installed in the past. some microsoft office app updates. Why have these been retained?? Can I safely delete? Also there are filefolders under the windows...

Somehow I deleted or uninstalled all Display (active windwo) fonts except 1. How do I reinstall them from the disc? What is the file name?

I would like to type a letter but on yhe left side of the page about three inches from the top there is a flashing line and when I take my curser to drag it off it becomes thicker but seizes to flash How do I remove this? Also, how do I set the margins on both left and right? Scott.

in start up my comp says its missing a .dll file and i have to reload windows 98SE. I downloaded a win98 boot disk from another computer and when i try to use it, my comp doesnt seem to be reading the boot disk at all. I hooked up another floppy drive and the same prob. Is there someway of making...

Hello I have just installed win 98 on a 2.4 celeron and on startup the following message shows: While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error. I know it's because the CPU is more than 2.1GHZ and 2.4 is not supported - so how can I fix this.

Hi. I've recently had need to flatten my PC, and I'm trying to rebuild it, but I've having major problems with installing Win98. The setup process seems to go okay, but it always hits a point where I get a message about not being able to load c:windows\system\vmm32.vxd, it being either missing...

I had an old slave hard drive go bad and replaced it with a 200 GB Seagate. The operating system is WIN 98 SE and it is limited to 137 GB. The problem that arose is during the install, and trying to boot, my system file command.com is not found by my computer anymore. Any ideas as to how to get...

When I startup the computer and the desktop is showing the computer does a diagnostic search, searching Router, Ipaddress, ethernet connection, etc. it does a loopback test and then says diagnostic is complete and the I have to click ok and it is fine. This has never happened before and I just...

HELP PLEASE!! When turning on my computer, everything seems to be booting up fine, then I get a blank screen saying "device VPICD, windows protection error resart your computer" which I do and this happens again and again. So if anyone can please help thanks.

Hay, My mother in law runs windows 98SE (Dutch version) on a PIII computer and has a low speed telephone line internet link. Updating windows is a nightmare. Since I have a ADSL link I would like to help her keeping her PC safe and updated. The last hours I browsed through the Microsoft sites in...

I have taken my old PC from work and hooked it up at home - (only thing that's different is a new monitor) - when I boot up the system, I get a message that says: "Windows Mouse Support - Windows did not detect a mouse attached to the computer. You can safely attach a serial mouse now. To attach...

is there a way to not have to type the password if there's only one user? please tell me how to get rid of this

Can I reformat the hard drives on the computer with win 98 and then install win xp? All I have sre the diske that came with the computers. It wont let me just install win xp over win 98. Thanks.

Anyone know why,whwn downloading files or updates,I get the "corrupted or damaged file please get another copy or your update file is damaged and will not be installed" This happens a lot of the time as with free AVG virus programme.I cannot update the AVG as this message always comes up,annoying...

I want to do a clean reinstall of Win98SE, any good sites (or books) you recommend to walk you through the process?

I recall that microsoft offered a CD that would upgrade from 98 to 98se for $9.95. Well I am finally ready but can find nothing on the microsoft website. Is it still possible to do this upgrade? Please don't tell me that I should move on to ME or XP. Thanks in advance.

I just had to reinstall most everything on my system after getting hit by a worm. Now, when I try to load Win 98SE, I get a blue screen message about "tdimsys(01)". (I'd give you the exact message, but I'm not at that computer currently and it's running a scandisk to make sure everything is...

how do i get into safe mode from DOS?