In an effort to open up space on one of our win98se machines my children (they go back to school Monday) started to delete things "they" thought were not needed. I'm not totally sure what it was they deleted but I now have the following: The System: Pentium w/MMX 233 mhz 92 ram win98se

I recently formatted a computer that was heavily virus infected and more trouble then it was worth to try and repair it, so I just went to clean reinstall. The hd is now formatted, but after hours of searching I have only been able to lay my hands on my win98 boot disk, my win 98se serial code,...

I was having problems with my emachine ETower 500ix, WIN 98. The screen kept getting frozen too many times. So, I decided to format the hard drive. During the process I noticed several error messages as follows "inflating: c:\Programs.............file name...... Bad CRC file name (Should...

Good Morning and happy New year to all. My dad tried to start his PC this morning and received an error stating that the "Operation system can't be found on any device, press any key". I have tried to start the pc in Safe mode but do not manage. He told me he worked on it last night and all was...

When trying to defragment my computer it stops in the middle of running and says it cannot continue because there are errors on the drive. It then prompts me to run Scan Disk. The first time I ran Scan Disk it said it found errors but fixed them. I ran it a second time and it says no errors...

during start up the error message could not find file"sservice.exe(or one of it's components)comes up. also another error message under it says could not find WIN.INI file. i do believe the sservice.exe file is apart of the WIN.INI file,but i am not positive. plz help me to restore this file...i...

Happy New Year everybody! When I try to make a backup disk, on the report, I am told error program was busy or can't compare. I also am having problems with troubleshoot. When I go to troubleshoot modem, (example) it takes me to a blue highlighted, modem troubleshoot, I click on it and it takes me...

Recently, I started having a problem with the hard disk running for about one second every minute or so. This causes annoyances such as the mouse freezing and the sound player to stutter for that one second. Everything was running smoothly until I got hit with a bunch of pop-ups and stupid little...

When I click "Start" "Run" then type in "regedit" or "regedit.exe" I get the message "Cannot find the file 'regedit' (or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available." Recent things I've done. I uninstalled AVG anti-virus I...

Hi My dad says it would be a huge risk to format the hard drive and reinstall windows 98. He has done this before with the help of a thechnician on the phone. That was when the computer was under warranty. Now, there are many problems that could be solved if I could format the hard drive and...

The command for creating new folders have gone missing from the "File" menu in the explorer on My Win 98 SE system. In fact, the command seems to be missing entirely and the only way for me to create new folders (or any other new objects such as documents or other filetypes) is to launch a DOS...

High, I was around a friends house the other day, and he has this strange behaviour of system monitor. Some software, he showed me freecell, but it does it at other times as well, seems to make the processor usage on the graph go to 100 percent and stay there, but the little resource figures pull...

Hi all, Running Windows 98 SE, just fine for ~6 years until... The Device Manager shows a resource conflict (code 15) for the "System Board extention for the PnP BIOS". (Driver VMM32.VDX 4-23-1999) Under the Resource tab, the "Conflicting device list" has no conflicts but the General tab says...

Where can I buy a 98SE upgrade? I can't see anything at Microsoft. -- Teresa

I have had version 7 in place a few days. Now I continually get a pop up on the "AVG email scanner connecting to 64.4.50.50" which it cannot connect to I have cleared my in box and rebooted and looked around the unfamiliar AVG window to no avail.

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module SHELL32.DLL at 0167:7fcb3dea. Registers: EAX=fc8c0043 CS=0167 EIP=7fcb3dea EFLGS=00010202 EBX=00000003 SS=016f ESP=0093f8a4 EBP=0093f9b8 ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=00000104 FS=266f EDX=00000007 ES=016f EDI=bff773a9 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: f6 40 0d 80...

I have the latest Tweakui and use it for W98SE. But I need to find the old version that works in W95. A URL for it? TIA

Hello all. I am having a problem installing an operating system back on to a Dell 4600i. It had win xp and locked up as soon as it got to adminstrative login. i fdisked and formatted the hard drive through dos. I am trying to get win 98 to run on it, however, it installs win 98 and then the...

I was navigating (IE 6.0) to a news web site when the BLUE SCREEN appeared with the message: An exception has occurred at 0028:D09DC867 in VxD AFVXD(01) + 00001987. This was called from 0028:C001C3D4 in VxD NDIS(01) + 00004860. It may be possible to continue normally. *Press any key . . . *Press...

I believe I have a condition that has been introduced by loading the latest critical update for Windows 98. I downloaded the update before christmas when my dell laptop was fully functional, I did not restart the laptop immediately after the down load . After coming back from the christmas break my...