Any software available for a simple upgrade from win98 to win98SE on a laptop? Don't want to uninstall and then reinstall win98SE. Thanks!!

device to run windows or windows applications system ini file refers to this device but no longer exist. c:\windows\system\vmm32 enable vxd...How?

My hard drive became bogged down, so I too reinstalled Windows 98. All went well, but when I tried to register Microsoft Word (in Works) they asked for a 25-character CD Key. They say that I can find it on a yellow sticker on the back of the "CD jewel case." What is that? I am sure I don't have it...

Upgrading from 95 to 98 SE on a Gateway 2000 - 6-gig, 266 meg speed. 288 RAM. All went well with the upgrade until the final shutdown/restart. I get the beginning boot screen with the RAM, Cache, Gateway 2000 logo etc. Then the Windows sky-blue logo screen comes up. That's OK. but

I can't get any USB device to work. I'm running Winows 98SE and everything else seems OK. Device Manager lists: 1. Intel(r) 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller 2. Unknown Device 3. USB Root Hub #1 and #3 say they are working properly and I don't have any USB device pluged in. #2 says (Code 22)...

I had 98 and xp running together and then I got rid of XP! but XP still appear as a choice when I start my PC ?!!?! when i start my pc I have to chose wich operating system iI wanna use, but I actually have only one. I didn't have de XP cd when I remove it so I formated the...

Greetings all, I have a problem. I have a Dell laptop running Win98 and was trying to install a Linksys Wireless-B PCMCIA adapter. After going to Linksys's site and downloading the latest driver, and installing it, Windows will not come up fully now. When I boot the computer I get the Win98...

Win98se After upgrading a program, went to "start", "programs", "startup" and deleted the program from startup(seems companies always want their programs to auto start!!!). Now my startup icon(shortcut) is missing. Not sure what I have done. Since I've never messed with this, except to empty...

I have a toshiba laptop, and it does not have a cdrom drive, but i got dos drivers for my pcmcia lan card. I formated my laptop' harddrive, because it had windows95 thats was later updated to 98... (its just my personal preference, but i like to have only 1 os per harddrive..) and ater i formatted,...

while playing games my mouse icon turns to a square abt. 1" sq. and all colors. any body help with this problem?

MS Dos prompt screen, has gone to full screen. How do I go back to a window opening instead?

While re-installing Windows98 Software, I got the error message "While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer." In my research, I have found that this is common on computers whose CPU is faster than 2.1G. My CPU is 2.4G. I understand that microsoft...

I was having trouble getting windows to start my computer would power down instead. I have a gateway, and have windows 98 se. I tried to do safe mode but would not take it. so I used a system restore cd, and now all I get is "this file if missing or corrupt" windows/dblbuff.sys,windows/ifshld.sys,...

{N.B. - Don't SPAM my email addy please, I never, ever respond to product or business offers in SPAM so you're wasting your time.} I'm writing this in a state of intense confusion, so if it makes no sense you'll know why. I'm attempting to replace my old hard drive with a new one. I got a Seagate...

Hi, I have performed a clean installation of win98 on a packard bell pentium system. However when the system is restarting and displays the " starting windows for the first time" screen the system hangs. When I do a step by step confirmation it hangs after msmouse.vxd. This driver does not seem to...

hi all, I am booted up in "real" dos mode... I was running a dos AV program, F-Protdos, and it indentified a lot of files in the the C:\windows\temp folder as being "a security risk", and so just to save some time, I manually deleted all the subfolders using the deltree command and it took all...

Hello, I'm running win98se with a keyboard that doesn't have either a "sleep" or "wake up" key. Is there any way to program some other existing combination of keys (e.g. ctrl-alt-s) to invoke power management System Standby? Thanks for any suggestions. --

HELP! My computer is saying I do not have a cd rom installed and I know I do! What can I do to correct this problem?

Tried rescue disk, works briefly then "error restoring to hard disk" message appears. Downloaded upgrades provided by microsoft early in June. Seemed to be working, made new rescue disk and norton virus definition set. Stopped working the same week - message said "unstable". Norton set will not...

When Win 98 starts cannot open My Computer or run other programs - system freezes. Only able to ctrl-alt-del for Task Manager Have checked for Viruses and system appears to be clean. Tried Selective Start with no items selected - same results as above. System works in Safe Mode. Would appreciate...