I still have a ThinkPad 240, which is loaded with W98 and I prefer to carry because this notebook is much lighter than my current ThinkPad, and still does many things. However, it is my belief that the 240 cannot take advantage of Wi-Fi environments here and there because W98 does not support...

In the last couple of days IE6 has started behaving differently on my win98SE/IE6 system (all updated via Windows Update) Previously the default setting on the favourites - history - search - media sidebar was that it would autohide in fullscreen (f11 toggle) mode. Now it defaults to NOT...

"Paddy" wrote in message ... Does anyone know anything more than my ISP support-desk about this one? Since Saturday (9th Oct) me and my W98 box have been unable to connect to secure sites beyond the level of e.g: the...

My Win 98 machine is connected to company LAN. I can see the server and it's drives, other computers on the network, etc, but I can not see any web pages. When I open Internet Explorer I receive a "The page cannot be displayed" error. I can ping the company server as well as google's IP address...

When checking Windows\Temporary Internet Files, I find several sub-folders with index.dat or desktop.ini and I can not delete them from Windows. Are any of these sub-folders or files in Tempory Internet Files necessary? Can I go to DOS and Delete everything in C:Windows\Temporary Internet...

I have just networked my laptop and PC together and it is working perfectly. On my PC, I have XP Home and the Microsoft/SP2 firewall in operation. My laptop is running 98SE as its quite an old laptop and only a 5GB HDD at the moment. One of my mates said I don't need a firewall on the laptop as...

I have a problem with the way Acrobat Reader is working. I am pretty sure it is the way Explorer is configured or it is a Registry entry that isn't as it should be. If I am in the incorrect forum then please advise the correct one. I have Acrobat Reader 6 installed on the system. However there are...

"lissybeth" wrote in message ... When I try to open attachments in hotmail, I click on download attachment, and the next thing I get is a white page which states "done" at the bottom, but nothing...

I have a 5 year old IBM Laptop, it has Windows 98 as the o/s. there were some corrupted files I believe or it was not installed properly (was given lap top by friend)I had a windows 98 disk so, being a bit stupid I installed over it hoping it would fix whatever problems I was having with some of...

On most (but not all) occasions when I try and connect to the Internet, the Dial-Up process fails, the whole computer crashes and I have no option but to switch off and start again. This problem appears to be linked with a "Close Program" dialog box entry which reads: TAPISRV (NOT...

Hi, Has anyone ever had trouble with using the 'Clear Forms' function of their contents through auto complete? Please help!! Thanks, Bob

I found it odd; I accessed a site for gen info on Lebanon and afterward found my cookie box had 4 cookies which had got through without the obligatory notice/alert having appeared. I cleaned out a few other cookies which I had knowingly permitted, but was alerted that "running a system command...

After downloading and installing a few windows update files from microsoft web site, windows 98 (2nd edition) will not finish loading when USB port is in use by the cable modem. if i disconnect the USB port, reboot, windows 98 completely loads with icons, etc. then I plug USB port back in and cable...

Sandi, Just me again..... ever since installing the 'orrible AOHell software, I've been plagued with the following problems (the AOHell software is now gone thankfully, but these problems don't seem to want to go away). 1. Mail server (Argosoft Mail Server Pro) gives error; Winsock Error 10004:...

Hi You guys: I mean, I can *"read" it *BUT...... All I can tell is Msft Removing (Uh-Oh )*s-o-m-e-thing? from my system------Anyone Know What? Star E. @ECHO OFF SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\ lh MSCDEX.EXE /D:IBMCD001 /l:G /M:8 MOUSE.COM C:\WINDOWS\CWDINIT.EXE /A

I've used an 802.11b PCMCIA card for months with no problems but now I can't connect to the host because I lost my tcp/ip somehow. When I right click on "Network Neighborhood" and select properties, nothing happens when I click the "add" button after selecting "add" then "protocol" :( I bought a...

i HAVE A SYSTEM WHEN EVER i GO TO INTERNET EXPLORER I get this error here are the details.... EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module MSVCRT.DLL at 017f:780154a7. Registers: EAX=7803a152 CS=017f EIP=780154a7 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=00000010 SS=0187 ESP=017bdeb0 EBP=017bdec0 ECX=000052e0 DS=0187...

I am using Win98 V2 with a dialup line to BTConnect. The dialup line drops out after about a minute when the net is well loaded or several minutes when the net is lightly loaded. The two computers at the bottom of the screen show a cross and then disappear. The error mesage is "connection to...

Hi, lately I have not been able to download small things like screensavers. Only 100KB out of 1 MB will download. Also I have the problem of long internet pages only downloading half, and then saying "done". Can anyone help me please? :) Hopefully it is just a setting that needs adjustment? ...