From time to time my Pc (win98) get busy mainly due to: mmtask.tsk 39% cpu (see "PROCESS EXPLORER" log) agentsvr.exe 45% cpu (see "PROCESS EXPLORER" log) Is this normal ??? any solution ?? Included my "PROCESS EXPLORER" http://img163.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tasksss0gy.jpg

From time to time when I wants to shut the PC ("shut down") it get stuck. Seems like the "shut down" proccess is running but get stuck on a black screen. The only option then is to push the "power" or "reset" botton. Any idea ??? if extra data is needed ... Included my standart hijackthis log.

I'm running out of places to find help with this... Defragging always seemed to change the file attributes on my computer. I'd have to go in and manually restore the View attributes to "View as Webpage" and "Details." Annoying, but I figured that was Win98. Now there's something new. After the...

I'm running out of places to find help with this... Defragging always seemed to change the file attributes on my computer. I'd have to go in and manually restore the View attributes to "View as Webpage" and "Details." Annoying, but I figured that was Win98. Now there's something new. After the...

Because I cannot appear to fix a oversized display problem from within Windows 98 itself, is it possible to reset the display from DOS?

After running a program that included 3-D graphics, Direct X9, and hardware acceleration, when I returned to the Windows desktop, I discovered that my display settings had been changed drastically. The print and icons are now so large that I can barely navigate to the Display icon in the Control...

Because I cannot appear to fix a oversized display problem from within Windows 98 itself, is it possible to reset the display from DOS?

How do I get windows 98SE out of audit mode?

How do I get windows 98SE out of audit mode?

After running a program that included 3-D graphics, Direct X9, and hardware acceleration, when I returned to the Windows desktop, I discovered that my display settings had been changed drastically. The print and icons are now so large that I can barely navigate to the Display icon in the...

Thanks Charles; It is a ToshibaTecra 500CDT, I was in A: from the 98 startup disk then went to D:. It does boot up...oem disk? not sure what you mean. It boots up says the pci bus scan and all that was complete..everything comes up good until I put Setup in...then it says cannot run setup in DOS...

Hi all, I have done about a half dozen clean installs on different machines over the past several months. The problem is that all of the machines have a 60 second hesitation problem that occurs randomly and not very often. It could be when I start IE or when I start explorer. The machine locks...

Last week I fooled with my LinkSys LNE100 network card. Now WIN98 (1st edition) boots very slow. It stays on the blank desktop for over 1 1/2 minutes, then the icons start to load. I reinstalled the network card drivers several times, did updated NAV scans, spyware checks etc. A boot log analysis...

I found it necessary to reinstall Windows 98, then discovered that I had lost the product key. Is there any legal way around this, or am I stuck? Thanks.

Please help me....I just formatted my laptop so I could re-install the 98 SE, as there was too much garbage in my system. When I got to the D: and entered Setup....it told setup cannnot be run in DOS mode??? Can someone please tell me how to get it so I can install the system again? I have never...

Thanks Charles; It is a ToshibaTecra 500CDT, I was in A: from the 98 startup disk then went to D:. It does boot up...oem disk? not sure what you mean. It boots up says the pci bus scan and all that was complete..everything comes up good until I put Setup in...then it says cannot run setup in DOS...

Hello - I'm getting emails and browsing using Avant, but if I open up a DOS window and to ping www.ibm.com, I get Timeout messages. I'm not sure this is the problem, but I have a firewall, Tiny Personal Firewall, but I do not know what setting is causing ping to not work. Or if that is the...

Please help me....I just formatted my laptop so I could re-install the 98 SE, as there was too much garbage in my system. When I got to the D: and entered Setup....it told setup cannnot be run in DOS mode??? Can someone please tell me how to get it so I can install the system again? I have never...

Hi all, I have done about a half dozen clean installs on different machines over the past several months. The problem is that all of the machines have a 60 second hesitation problem that occurs randomly and not very often. It could be when I start IE or when I start explorer. The machine locks...

Is it my imagination or is my PC loading software considerably faster than it was? Yesterday, mid-afternoon in UK, McAfee downloaded an update, which wasn't its normal weekly update and ever since then start-up etc just flies through. So fast in fact that I checked to see if the AVG is still...