i lost my product key # for win 98 .. now what .. help!

My hard drive went out, so installed a new one and am installing Windows 98SE (after which I will subsequently install the upgrade to XP). Have installed this CD on other computers of mine in the past, and never had a problem. The entire installation is flawless up to and including the driver...

My hard drive went out, so installed a new one and am installing Windows 98SE (after which I will subsequently install the upgrade to XP). Have installed this CD on other computers of mine in the past, and never had a problem. The entire installation is flawless up to and including the driver...

my son was given an older computer and i want to delete evryting on the drive and if i can i want to be able to restart the computer with win 98 from scratch with nothing on it. can this be done? Please help. Ireally want to get this computer going for my son

I have a registered copy of Win 98 SE & the floppy boot install disk was accidentally over-written. I searcehd MS help without finding a donload for this software. I need this for my older laptop. Can anyone help me to procure this software. When seeking info from MS help & I typed in the PIC #...

My PC running Win98 SE has a Supra SST modem on Com3. When I try to connect to the Internet, the PC freezes. When I try Modem Diagnostics, the PC freezes When I try to use Hyper Treminal direct to Com3 the PC freezes. I've deleted the modem, reseated the modem, Win 98 picks it up and allocates it...

I recently had to replace my harddrive on my dell desktop and so I'm starting over from scratch. I have the original bootdisk but only a copy of my 98se cd (i have the other, but its scratched beyond imagine). Anyway, I've installed the harddrive successfully (using the western digital software)...

I would like to bid on a Win98 SE upgrade on Ebay. However it states that this is "unregistered". What does that mean? Will this have a key code that allows me to install it?

Yes, I am aware that the other files in the win98 directory need to be there, thanks. I need to know what files I need on the hd to boot to a c: prompt without a boot flopy or cd rom.

How do I install windows 98 on a laptop that does not have a CD rom drive ?

I was receiving "this program has performed illegal operation" errors and could not run any internet applications. I attempted to use the steps listed in Article ID : 298343 to repair the comctl32.dll file but it seems the file was removed but then was not extracted (was given bad file name error...

I install win 98 from scratch but when windows is doing the personal setting when the wizard reads "Default Channel Setup" the system just shutdown. Can I have any suggestions? Thanks in advance -- Pao Pao

How do I reset the Win 98 Start Programs menu so it displays multiple columns instead of a single column with a scroll control at the botton? I looked through the Knowledge Base as I thought I remembered seeing the fix posted there but can no longer find the article.

in start up my comp says its missing a .dll file and i have to reload windows 98SE. I downloaded a win98 boot disk from another computer and when i try to use it, my comp doesnt seem to be reading the boot disk at all. I hooked up another floppy drive and the same prob. Is there someway of making...

Am trying to fix a Windows 98 machine. It would continually reboot. Sometimes it would reboot as soon as the desktop came up, other times would last a few minutes. I formatted the hard drive and re-installed Win 98 SE but it is still doing it. Any suggestions would be appreciated

I have an Ibm clone that I recently purchased and somehow it has dropped the winit.exe in the startup, as a result it shuts down as soon as it starts opening windows. I do not have a win 98 disk but the disk has been copied to the hard drive how can I restore the missing file since windows will not...

Recently purchased laptop single floppy drive how can I put win 98 cd into floppy format to install or where I could get the required floppy disc operating system for either win 95/98?

Somewhere someone told me about a MS website that you could download a windows 98 SE cd that included all the updates. You still have to use your original CD key to do the install. Does anyone know if this is true and the website?

I have a computer with win 95 already installed and I need to upgrade to win98. Does anyone have the upgrade disk, I only have the full version.

I was upgrading a friends pc from 95 to 98. Everything seemed fine until the person thinks they shut down but switched off before safe message. Now the computer will not even boot up,just get blank screen. Anyone any ideas how to get some workable screen to fix it, please? Thanks