When I tried to read data on a ISB ThumbDrive for the first time on my Win98 system, it could not be read. Searching for a driver or something to enable it, I was asked to insert my Win98 CD. Upon doing so, I got a message that the CD had a 'newer' version than was on my system (of course this was...

Hi, I'm volunteer in an association which offers accesses to two Win98 boxes connected to Internet. Theses machines have been setup few years ago, and there's now no documentation available on their setup :( I would like to install Firefox 1.5 and OpenOffice 2.0 (they have an old IE 5.1 and MS...

Hi, I'm volunteer in an association which offers accesses to two Win98 boxes connected to Internet. Theses machines have been setup few years ago, and there's now no documentation available on their setup :( I would like to install Firefox 1.5 and OpenOffice 2.0 (they have an old IE 5.1 and MS...

My PC with Win98SE unknownly deleted msmincho.ttc font file, probably anti-virus software. Then I tried to re-install the font file but PC never allows it, automatically deleted again. How can I do? M.M.

I downloaded the driver from mfg site and attempoted to install. The flsh drive eppears in the my computer panel but gives message the it is "not ready or inaccessdible". I e W98SE bought in 2000. I think that the usb may need to bd updated. How do I do this whre do I find the patch/update? Iused...

I have an Intel D845WN board, 256m ram, Albatron AGP video card, Maxtor 20g hard drive. All new. This is a spare system I am setting up. I have a near identical system. Problem is I cannot install/setup any operating system. No matter which system, 98, 98SE, even 95 will not install. Any help will...

After reinstallation of Win98SE, apparently normal (and year 2004 update & security disk) MSCONFIG shows via / Advanced button only the /Advanced Troubleshooting window (about 15 checkable boxes.) MSCONFIG offers no path to the Virtual Memory module to manage the swap file (e.g. to put the swap...

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...

My 98SE was working fine and I have visited nothing but well-established public websites so I do not suspect that I have picked up any virus. But today it booted fine for awhile then hung. Subsequently upon reboot I get "BIOS not installed" then "Operating system not found". I can get to the BIOS...

Hi, (no reply in group win98.networking, so i try here ...) I have two computers (a win2000 domain-server and an old win98) in a LAN. I can ping from one to the other. I installed on both computers NetBeui. The disc on win98 is shared for everybody. Access is set on share level. When i try a 'net...

Weird anomalies when I attempted to reinstal (after juggling PCI cards when sound on board failed so I had to buy a sound card) and got into a real tangle 1. On this 2.8 GHz machine I encountered the notorious NDIS error at SETUP's first reboot. This was cured two years ago simply by...

My operating system is MS Windows 98SE. For some reason I wanted to reinstall the operating system. After successful copying of files the system restarted automatically. But then it gave an error message - "Invalid VxD dynamic link call fromVWIN32(01) + 00000714 to device '0009', service 1. Your...

I cannot restart in DOS. When I do a Start/Shutdown/Restart in DOS the system restarts, I get a C:\Windows prompt but then the system will not respond to any keyboard input. What could be the problem and how should I go about determining and fixing. I am running on Windows98 Second Edition. TIA

I have 'inherited' an old Gateway PC with Win98 installed it. I also have a Win98 SE Updates disk from when I had an AMD K6 machine. When I try to update the Gateway with the update disk I get a message telling me that I my operating system is already updated! It isn't, I can assure you. Might it...

Hi everybody. A friend of mine owns a Powershot A470 which would like connect to a HP Omnibook XE2 + Win98 SE. Officially are supported only 2000, XP and Vista OS, but on installation CD you can find the twain drivers for win98. After installation the camera is "silently" detected": looking in...

Hi everybody. A friend of mine owns a Powershot A470 which would like connect to a HP Omnibook XE2 + Win98 SE. Officially are supported only 2000, XP and Vista OS, but on installation CD you can find the twain drivers for win98. After installation the camera is "silently" detected": looking in...

Hi, I'm working on a nec Z-1, circa 1999, computer with 96 megs ram, 8 gig hard drive, and a P3 450 cpu, Everything's ok now except I can't get it to change the display settings. In advance settings, where you tell it to change the settings without rebooting, it doesn't happen. I mean, no matter...

i try to install windows etc but cant reboot as it tells me cant find file sys.ini and pc halts and tells me i need to insert the file and run scan reg but cant , plz help tyvm in advance . Micy

Tried to reinstall windows on my pc but when I used my boot cd I received missing .cab file error. Now when I reboot my computer I don't even get into dos mode all I receive is an L1 message. The only reason I can get online at this point is because I reinstalled linux which I hate because I...

Trying to understand the purpose of the following command in my config.sys file (W98SE): REM: The following two real mode drivers (csmapper & carddrv) allow PCMCIA SRAM cards to be treated as pseudo-floppy disks. Device=C\windows\system\csmapper.sys Device=C\windows\system\carddrv.exe /slot=2 I...