I am running Windows 98 and my date will not display, all it keeps showing is ????. I tried fixing it by changing my Regional Settings and when I clicked on the Date tab it just stops responding. How do I correct this problem?

Sometimes I open a web page and the type is so small it appears unreadable and brokenup. It does not happen often but it is frustrating. Even when I tried to sign up for a hotmail account here on the microsoft webpage the signup form page was like this. all the other pages are fine. Is this...

Home page recommends to uninstall the old version (after first selecting to disable all protection) and then install the new one.

I am resurecting a dell laptop and installed win 98se. My wireless connection to the internet and home network seems ok. Every time I start the ie6 it goes to a MSN set up your modem dialog. Which ends in a dead end. I downloaded ie6 and reinstalled. Same problem. Thanks Larry

I get a work offline popup window which is very annoying, I can't seem to figure out what prompts it as it happens at random times, if I am online or offline, typing or just looking at my screen wehther I am using a program or not it just seems to pop up at least once or twice a session. How can...

The open or save or save as dialogue window which opens when saving or opening program options has several options for the icon order arrangement the files and folders are displayed in the dialogue window: file size, name, file type, Date. When I open the dialogue window the default is always...

this is URGENT, so your help is highly appreciated. thanks. :lol: :lol: when i start the computer and and the computer was hang and show a message "Error loading Explorer.exe", and told me the file "Msvcrt.dll" was damaged or loss. then, the computer was hang and i cannot further do anything in...

I have an OEM running 98 SE. I picked up an old computer at an auction, removed the hard dive and installed it in my 98 system as a primary slave, booted the system and it went through the POST but before getting to the WIN logo screen I got just a black screen with a blinking short white...

Hi folks I am unable to see microsoft vitual labs session on msdn web site . I have downloaded Ie 6.0 with SP1 ans all teh latest security updates . My operating system is Windows ME and whenever i try to access the virtual labs session it tells me to download the Active X Vitual Machine client...

My husband has Win 98, and just now found the task bar apparently got dragged to the right side (up and down) instead of across the bottom. I tried to drag it back, but it only moved across the screen to the left. How can we get it back to the bottom? Thanks for any help, and Happy New Year to...

error message at boot boils down to dfs.vxd file is missing. Read the Microsoft article on this. I know HOW to extract one file, and where to GET it from. Where do I extract it to ? System,system32, and shell folders all were tried to no avail. Help ?

I'm using Windows 98 and the photos (e.g. displayed on ebay or hotmail) don't appear clearly, they appear with a lot of dots through the photo. Can anyone suggest anything to help?

When I try to start my computer I get the following message VMM32.VXD is required to run Windows. If this file is not in your PATH, you may need to reinstall windows. I have used a copy of this file on disk and copied it to C:\Windows but the problem still remains. I do not wish to reinstall...

From time to time, my Win98SE system decides to refresh all 57 desktop icons. This started months ago. Any suggestions how to cure it?

I think I have a C drive that's going south on one of my computers and want to keep all my old Outlook express messages including e-mail and newsgroups, and various folders within OE that I've created. If I copy the .dbx files and paste them into the appropriate place on a reinstalled version of...

I just did a very clean install of win98. It worked fine for half a day but now I get an explorer error message very quickly on the boot which says illegal operation with details "Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe @015f:00401f31" The Toshiba laptop 2655x will not boot...

Can anyone help me? I get "Explorer.exe caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe at 018F: 00401F31" when I bootup pc. I have tried putting drive in two other pcs as slave drives and could not see hard drive. Put the drive back into original pc and still get the error. I cannot start safe...

I have been doing a cold boot each morning for many years, so am used to seeing something new each day at times. My Western Digital 15 GB hard drive is about 5 years old, used 8/24 in those years. My AV and antispyware regularly show my hard drive is clean. I use Firefox, Thunderbird, OE...

On my HP Pavilion 6465 PC that uses Win98 First Edition the "Splash Screen" of Adobe Acrobat Readetr 5.0.1 remains dormant for an annoying 62 seconds before the program loads it's APIs and dlls. On my wife's generic PC that uses Win98 Second Edition the dormant period of the "Splasc Screen" for...

This error keep windows from running, could not resolve with KB info articles so I formatted new hard drive, reinstalled windows, ran factory restore disk, still same problem. windows will not boot in any mode. knowedge Base info no help. help would be appreciated. you can email to...