In the thows of trying to kill a trojan I accidentally deleted file "C:\windows000\system.dat". My PC is now unable to access my broadband connection and does not recognise my AHDL modem. Help! Was this file vital and if so how can I restore it. I would be grateful for your...

on a laptop that can only have either the floppy or cd drive in at once? and no setting in the bios for boot from cd?

have lost all message says incompatible ms-dos put in diskette with matching version and restart have tried all sorts of start up disks and the new se install diskette still getting same message help will be much appreciated

I need to clean a HD off, they can't find the book, they do have a legal copy of 98, which goes to this computer. I know you can find the key by searching regedit, what would it be under?

I hope someone can help me here. A friend has an old pII IBM with a serial mouse and I was going to exchange it for a better wheel mouse. it started okay but would not see the mouse It kept doing that I went into settings and enabled the onboard mouse. soon as entered password it said searching...

Helping a friend, when it is dialing we hear no dial tone and say the phone line is in use of disconnected. Have had some lightening storms, reset everything. Tried a different jack and different phone line, also. Is there anything else I can try

I re-formatted a hard drive and tried to re-install Windows 98, and on one of the first setup screens got the following message: "Message SU0013 Setup cannot create files on your startup drive and cannot set up Windows 98. If you have HPFS or NTFS, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition. If you...

Is there a way to change the user name on a computer? thanks

Is there a way to upgrade windows 95 to windows 98 using a full copy of 98 rather than an upgrade? It is a legal copy but a full copy rather than an upgrade, rather than having to reformat the HD? thanks

I've caught a small bug and need to disable System Restore. I've tried Settings-Control Panel-System-Performance-File System-Troubleshooting- only to discover there is no "Disable System Restore" box to check. How do I disable System Restore?

Hi. My name is Bryan Baker. I'm 16 and I live in Canada. I build a computer from scratch, and I've been trying to install windows 98 on this computer. However, every time I get to the installer, it loads to 100%. Then, the system speaker beeps, a black rectangle appears, and the system locks. I...

Gateway Neo recovery disks used to re-install W98SE. No problems with setup. When it gets to the password window after the instal I have no mouse or keybd control. It will boot in Safe Mode OK. Keybd and mouse control all OK. So if I can have help in bypassing the Passwd window or some other fix,...

Below is the copy of the response to this problem from a month ago! I've tried both solutions but still no success. This is an all usb pc...does that help? Any further assistance would be great. Tks. And, should Noel's correct solution not work for some reason, try a work around by assigning a...

Can someone tell me how to put win 98 on drive E if I have win xp on the C drive? Can't seem to figure it out. Thanks.

I uninstalled gozilla and it messed up the registry. It deleted the COMMAND folder and scanreg.. I finally ran registry repair from 98se C.D Windows now boots then goes to dos and has a C: prompt. What do I type at the prompt to get windows to finally start? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi everyone, I need some help here. A friend brought her gateway computer to my place to see if I could fix it and when I start it up it asks me for the product key. I had put the product key in it that she had found and it turned out to be the wrong one even though it let me do it. I need to go...

The longer my machine stays running the lower my available resources get. Is there any way I can get my resources to increase without having to re-boot the computer. A bare minimum of files are running in the background and the memory has been replaced recently for another problem. TIA Buck

I have an older gateway computer that has windows 95 on it. I am trying to install windows 98 but keep getting a suwin error. Can you tell me what to do or what this means.

I had to format and reinstall windows 98 on my pc. I have the Certificate of Authenticity but when it ask for the product code the code on the certificate does not fit the boxes on the install screen. Another wonderful move by Microsoft

My computer apparently attempts to connect to my ISP at each startup as I get the following message: Failed to find Internet connection wizard helper. I delete this and it pops up again. On second delete everything is fine and everything working fine. Just a nuisance. How can I get rid of...