In msconfig,exe the startup menu for selective startup. How do I clean out old unwanted startups? Should I make a backup also? The list is long an old and outdated. tia

The errors that I keep having with this app. are from and running in the background while the back up is running. I have closed all running app. on system except explorer. I know what is for Task Scheduler. I do not know what is. It resides in temporary files, history, cookies. Also,...

I've suddenly started getting popups every time I fire up Internet Explorer and these coincide with the appearence in c:\windows\temp of the file ll22.exe and dummy.htm. The latest updates from Pest Patrol and Norton Antivorus don't find anything. Deleting these files results in their reappearance...

In Win98, can one create a TEXT FILE listing the names of all files inside a given folder (one entry per line)? On this link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;282257 Microsoft shows how to use Outlook to PRINT a directory listing (contents of a folder) on a table...

I saw there were some postings about this, but they disappeared before I could retrieve them. I found out how to stop the "dial-up networking" thing from dialling automatically and thus increasing my phone bill, but I have not found how to stop it from popping up at the most annoying times. Is...

Boy, am I posting a lot tonight. Just wondering if anyone else noticed this (especially ron as I saw in an early reply he made that he refuses to have Norton on any of his computers). Norton on their site (all pages) do Not have an email address. I say this cos I went there recently by accident...

Where Can I Download Windows 98 SE - WHILE REINSTALLING WINDOWS 98 SE, I SOMEHOW DAMAGE THE DISK (SEVERELY). WILL SOMEONE CONTACK ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THE PROGRAM WAS BEING USE TO ASSIST ME IN DEVELOPING MY LEARNING SKILL. HELP MAVIN6

i have win98 on a HP computer last nite i shut down my computer: StartShut DownShut Down (bulleted)OK the computer went thru it's normal shut down process. after the computer went off, i turned off my monitor. this afternoon, i came home and noticed the green light on my tower. i turned...

For example to see what version of Windows 98 Click Start,Settings,Control Panel,double click System. At this point nothing occurs. On Show desktop icons Microsoft Outlook is not a short cut and I can click it and get the e-mail but Outlook Express is a short cut icon and will not respond. I...

Any documents I download from the "File Download" box are in binary code. It doesn't matter if I save to a disc or open in current location. how do I get it to read plain english. All other downloads are fine. Its just the file download box. Any help appreciated. Bob K.

laptop will not boot. Get an error message..... NTLDR any ideas????

Windows 98 2nd Edition with goback. Can someone tell me how to find out if it has a built-in virus protection? If so, where do I find it?

Hi; I am running windows 98 SE and all of a sudden I keep getting this error message from wtoolsa "this program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down". It is persistant. Is there a link where I can d/l this portion of windows and reload it? In an effort to stop it I deleted the...

I have a gateway 2000. trying to upgrade to win 98. I have 4 cds none of the 4 keycodes work? this one is an upgrade tho..she lost the keycode,with the box? ideas? thanks sue

After a process of elimination I have found that DOS=HIGH,UMB is the line in config.sys causing my computer to hang on shutdown. I have tried moving the lines around in the order suggested and although the system shut down the first time, it has continued to hang ever since. If I untick it what...

I feel like one of the users I have cursed in the past. While folling around in Windows Explorer on the View/Folder Options/File Types screen I accidentally (apparently) deleted an entry linking Internet Explorer to jpeg files (.jpg and ..jpeg). As a result, when I select a jpeg file as my...

I needed to install Adobe Acrobat 6 to view some files. I got a message saying I had to update to Internet Explorer 5 or higher. I went to www.microsoft.com and downloaded IE 6. It downloaded and installed OK. It said I had to restart my PC, but the error message "memory access violation...

The otSuddenly her day I managed - after some difficulty - to load MS Office 2000 Pro onto our PC operating Win 98 SE. It was working fine, indeed rather well. tonight the pc flashed up a message saying there was a serious error with the Registry and asked if we would like it to repair it. The...

I've been trying to run Scan Disk (thorough mode), but for some reason, it keeps starting over and over again and never finishes. I get the message that its restarted 10 times due to some other program writing to the hard drive. I've tried running it in Safe mode, yet it still does the same thing....

Hello you are my last hope. I hope that you can help me, I use windows 98 on 40gb 126mb pc and I have a number of problems I cant seem to solve, 1) My maintenance wizard cant complete its action it will reach 100% files scanned and will stop and wont complete the action 2) My pc is very slow to...