Hi Haggis, the good news is I was able to reinstall the bootit software in my good WIN98SE portion of the drive. The bad newsis that portion (1820mb portion, see below for all four of my partitions) still won't take control and let me make any changes to it. The 13398mb portion (my old win98 OS)...

Hi, I have always used Dial Up, and on Nov 4 my DSL service begins. I have learned a lot from this NG, and I still have more to learn. With Dial Up, when I "disconnected", I knew my Win98 computer no longer had a "gateway" to the Internet. Note: I will be using Verizon's DSL...

According to the description I have seen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7832652.stm this worm seeks out and infects a file called "services.exe" and .... The Microsoft bulletin MS08-067 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

According to the description I have seen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7832652.stm this worm seeks out and infects a file called "services.exe" and .... The Microsoft bulletin MS08-067 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

In a recent thread, I had had issues with a driver to a USB flash drive. Thanks to the great help in this group, I found the driver for this. The neat thing is that that driver installed a small "eject" app that starts up and appears in the systray, just like Windows 2000's. With the success of...

I have an icon on my desktop that opens a window on my desktop containing a couple of DUN icons. This is how I crank-up my dialup ISP. "Sometimes" this window opens "empty", no icons. I just close & reopen the window and the icons are there on the second try. Is this a "problem" I should do...

Hopefully this won't get too longwinded, but as a bit of background, I recently upgraded my hardware and wanted to keep all the software as before. I installed a new M.B. and CPU to go from a 600MHz Pentium 3 unit to a 2.6 GHz Celeron unit. Also I cloned over the multiboot OS's from drive 1 to...

Hello, I have Windows 98 running on a dell computer. Just need to get some files out of "my docs" before the machione is retired. Computer starts up then I get a red-circle X with "Explorer" in the title bar saying "This program has performed an illegal op. If the problems persists..." The...

I'd like to change my file type Icon I have been to Folder settings / file types but cannot find it. Any Ideas? The file type is *.LZH any ideas on how to change the default icon?

I've recently noticed something odd on ONE Windows 98se system. When I do a search using Windows Explorer's "Tools Find Files or Folders" function the results list (details view) does not contain an "In Folder" column. I have Name, Size, Type and Modified but not the In Folder column. I can...

Hi, mehr aus Neugier als aus Betroffenheit (Problem hat sich schon gelöst): Nach einer gescheiterten Ubuntu Linux-Installation kam beim nächsten Booten in Windows 98SE plötzlich die Fehlermeldung "Himem.sys fehlt" und Booten blieb stecken; beim Starten in reines DOS kam: "FEHLER: Steuerung der...

As of late IE 6 (win 98 se) is posting this dump on certain sites, eg: Consumers.Org, LLBean.com and a few others. I tried to track why but no results. It's frustrating in that most other sites come up fine. This is the dump: IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in module MSHTML.DLL at...

A couple of weeks ago I tried to install Tesco Internet. It didn't work. Since then I have warnings coming up say 'the system has performed an illegal request' and shuts down. I had been doing some printing so I closed it all down properly, the power clicked off and I switched it off at...

Hi, Recently I downloaded the newest version of "EchoLink" (a program used by many "Ham" radio operators). In order for me to install this on my Windows 98 computer, I had to download "INSTMSIA.EXE" and install that first, which I did. Afterwards I had no trouble installing...

What 3 files must be on a partition so that it is bootable?

I suggest many of you will find the above quite interesting at: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm As an OT who has migrated from Commodore days thru CPM and messy-dos I am in complete agreement after trying my best at several versions of SuSE and RedHat; and a very disappointing experience...

Hi, I recently had to reinstall Win 98SE. I was able to recover most of my "stuff", including the contentents of the folder My Documents, in which I had stored "Stationeries" (consisting of graphics with music) saved from a News Group. These files have an .eml extension. Before the crash I...

No major windows problems to speak of at the moment, but I'm curious about something here. On this page, http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.htm , there is a registry patch that "restores" the "New Folder" command to the right-click menu in Windows Explorer (the download is entitled "Restore NEW command...

I recently ran my "Belarc Advisor" status, and the above message was registered under "Antivirus" I am curious as to why my AVG AV does not show up? Thanks for any suggestions. -- pookiethai at iprimus.com.au

I need the "open with" function. The literature says that holding down the shift key and pressing the right mouse button will bring it up. It doesn't. Neither does shift-F10. I need this function so badly that I am even willing to get into the registry. Any suggestions? Thanks.