I have windows 95 on my Dell laptop. using the Windows 98 upgrade. 13 minutes into upgrade now have fatal error indicating the following: A fatal exception OE has occurred at 0028:C0017E93 in VXD IOSC(01) + 00000BFB. The current application will be terminated.

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.

Greetings; My brother has a Gateway computer many years old which has win98 installed and is not capable of USB 2.0 for an external backup disk. I have a win98se CD. Am I able to upgrade his machine to win98se from this CD? If so, how? and are there any special things I need to know in order...

I tried posting this to a modem ng but got no responses --I believe it is actually a W98 issue, no hardware or driver problems, so here goes: After installing W98SE on an older AT&T PC I couldn't get the installed modem to configure because I don't know the brand (it is a huge old thing with big...

My Compaq Presario 7360 running Win98se crashed. I wouldn't start in SAFE MODE. I kept getting the no O/S on any system. I went through all 3 Start Up Options on the Boot Disk. Went through everything in the Help Menu. ie SYS C: and SCANDISK, and SCANDISK /ALL and SCANDISK /ALL...

I've had to reformat the harddisk. Whe I try to install Win98se, it comes to a point where it cann't find any .dll files. The first one I point to C:\windows\system and it is found...all the others say to insert the 98 disk and hit enter. I do that and nothing happens. Please help. I can't...

Was running 98SE on an old 486 without problems till there was a serious one that required reformating the drives. After reinstalling only the 2 HD's are recognized. My CD doesn't work so I can't install anything. Should I try to do it from the registry and what would would I do. Or should I...

Windows Update has foiled my system. For some reason the installation failed and after restarting the computer, I was only greeted by a black screen with no cursor. I decided that I might as well reinstall 98SE again from a boot disk, and now that's getting hung up at the last step with a fatal...

I attempted to install an ADAPTEC 2930 SCSI card and a second CD-RW drive. After installing the SCSI drive and restarting, I received a blue screen indicating that there was incompatible hardware and that the system would restart in compatibility mode the next time. It apparently did, and does...

ok well here goes i managed to get windows 98se to install and it gets all the way to windows is starting up for the first time boot screen and thats as for as it goes it just sits there doin nothing no Hdd activity nothing after about 45seconds into the boot process no error msg's are givin so...

This is in a friends machine. She had downloaded Mcafee from the ISP's site and had some things go wrong. (don't ask me I don't know) Based on what happened she decided to reinstall the operating system. After two attempt she called for help. She says she has lost the desktop. "What do you get?" I...

I tried to install win98se but it kept saying "Registry memory is low" and it would let me setup 98se. How can I fix this problem? Thanks.

Hi all, I have a 98se shutdown problem. With "disable fast shutdown" checked the system hangs on the shutdown screen and won't go any further. With "disable fast shutdown" unchecked the system reboots every time shutdown is selected. Both result in having to use the front power button and then...

In the first installation of 98SE on this machine, the task bar could be dragged up to double height and the the task tabs would rearrange using both "lines" if there were a sufficient number of them. This description may sound vague but it is from memory. Since a reinstall (well over a year...

I'm thinking of upgrading an old computer running W98 to SE (for the ICS facility) using my old u/g CDrom, the computer I originally used it for having packed up. Are there any copyright issues here please? Miles

i have a pc in the house that missed the se upgrade and until now has run with just the original first edition. because it has four logins or profiles besides the default i am a little hesitant to run the upgrade cd. question is, does anyone remember having run the 98se upgrade disc on a pc...

I was deleting stuff off my old computer, including AOL, to give to my niece and now it displays this exact following message part way through start up: ""Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a Windows application. The Windows registry or System.ini file refers to...

After I updated some of the programs my Windows 98SE system can never boot up successfully. It goes through the usual routine but at the end when it already switches to the desktop color and resolution - all I see is the pointer with an hourglass and it stays forever. I can move the pointer - so...

I have a bootable Win98 OS cd without the key that goes along with it.(So that is doing me ABSOLUTELY no good) I also have a 98 bootdisk and a non-bootable Win98 cd. I know that with Nero (and other methods) there is a way to make a bootable cd as long as you have a burner and a blank CD-R. Now I...

Could anyone tell me how to get pass a bios password that has been forgotten. I'm not sure how to use 'cmos password' that I downloaded from this site -- http://www.cgsecurity.org/?cmospwd.html and really not sure of any other software to use to get this done. Since I've never tried this...