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Win.98 start up disk by
Tammy
Bought used compaq computer. Everything removed. Trying
to install win.98 as the op.system. Unable to locate
start up disk. Downloaded one from microsoft, still no
luck. I would be greatful for any advice.
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Upgrade to win 98se from win98 problem by
Richard
I am trying to upgrade my windows 98 to 98 second edition
but every time I try it says that I have the wrong disk. I
have a brand new win 98se installation disk. can anybody
help
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Reinstall problem by
Jon
Ive just reformatted my Hard drive and and having problems
reinstalling 98SE. I can make it was far as when it does
scan disk then it says copying files needed for windows or
something like that. Then the screen goes blank and it
takes me back to a dos prompt. Any body knows why or how
to fix it?
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SCSI HDD problems with Win98SE by
Maxtor, C.A.
Hi All,
I'm having lots of trouble with Win98SE running on an old Dell PowerEdge
server (PentiumII-233/128MB RAM/18GB SCSI 10K RPM HDD).
Even when I was installing, there were times when Win98 setup rebooted and I
got a "no boot disk" message afterwards. I could get past those booting...
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missing cdsetup.exe file by
Dave
I am getting two error messages when I start my computer
with Windows 98 installed. The first is, 'Cannot find the
file cdsetup.exe or one of its components. Make sure the
path and filename are correct and that all libraries are
available. The second is, Could not load or
run 'cdsetup.exe'...
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bootup ntdetect by
i have a hp pavillion 6545c and when i boot up its says
nt detect file(S) not found and i dont hav any recovery
discs? but i have the file on a floppy w/msdos
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July 12th 04 05:40 PM
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reinstalling windows by
Todd
Hi There,
after some help trying to reinstall windows 98 - at the
moment when i try to start the computer it comes up
required .dllfile shlwapi.dll not found and says you need
to reinstall windows. Unfortunatley this is before i can
get into the main screens to run the windows cd. how do
you run...
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July 12th 04 02:06 PM
by Todd
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Upgrading from win98 to win 98se by
Frank
Is it possible to download an upgrade from first edition
to second? Can first edition be tweaked to work with
software that requires a minimum of win 98se? I am looking
to go onto broadband but my telco advises me the min spec
is se - can I get round this?
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cannot by pass user password by
Steve van Dongen [MSFT]
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:01 -0700, brenda
wrote:
I have an older computer which uses windows 98. my young son entered a user password at set up and has now forgotten the password. As a result we can no longer even get past the set up section and cannot start...
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color resolution by
crous
The c: drive on my computer was formatted and windows 98
installed - message keeps coming up to change color
resolution to 800 but won't let me change
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windows key by
create_share
i want to reinstall windows 98 on my system which already
has windows 98 but i forgot the key of it. Now it is
asking me for the key. I don't want to format my disk. Is
there a way to see which windows key is installed. My
current windows is working but there is some problem in it
so i want to...
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Possible Virus Wiped out my hard drive by
John
I had Windows 98 SE installed on my computer and now when
I boot up I get the message "Explorer" This program has
performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If
this problem persists, please contact the vendor. Then
when I click on Details, it says;
Explorer has caused an invalid page...
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Modem error couldn't open port by
limeybiker
I get this error message.
When I did a Google Search, I found this article, but it leads to a dead
end.
Anyone know the fix, it relates to the modem being diagnosed and the
computer going in to standby.
The coincidence is that a friend has the same problem.
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Boot problem by
Brad F
I have 2 hdd's on my computer, a 4gb running WIN98, & a
40gb running WIN2K Pro. I went to MS.com to get an update
to protect from the sasser virus. while there I was
prompted to upgrade to Win Media Player V9, which I did.
Now WIN98 will not boot past start screen. (no icons) and
I get an error...
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July 11th 04 09:24 PM
by Brad F
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How to limit amount of physical RAM that Windows accesses for Safe Mode by
Bäz
Hi all,
I'm running W98SE on a computer with 2 GB of RAM.
To be able to do that I had to apply the MaxPhysPage=30000 setting to the
system.ini file like it is mendtioned in KB184478.
After having done a misconfiguration W98SE wants to start in Safe Mode which
means that the MaxPhysPage setting are...
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Get error when dragging file onto printer shortcut by
Stephen Ford
I have a piece of softeware for managing printing (FinePrint). Dragging a
file onto a shortcut to the printer generates the following error -:
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. Create an association in My Computer by clicking View and then
clicking...
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Install win 98 without reformat by
Ralph Taylor
I have an interesting problem which I haven't seen discussed before.
A couple of years ago I got a new 20GB hard drive for an old computer.
The bios of this computerdoes not support a hard drive this large so
the guys at the computer shop used some kind of overlay software to
format the drive so...
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unexpected error... setup chaged by
Anubad
Suddenly I have faced an error which I have not seen
before. When I am trying to open any source code of any
html file (IE -view-source) , it is showing that notepad
file as a temporary internet file adn does not giving any
option to change or any save. I think there is some
internal change...
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July 11th 04 09:28 AM
by Anubad
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bootup problem by
bootup
anyone know why after fixing several self induced problems
on my childrens computer that Windows 98 boots to the
black screen and asks for Normal, or Safe Mode etc? It
does it every time I boot and I can't get it backto going
into Windows the regular way?
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desktop moving by
big jim
I have win 98 and when I move the mouse the entire desktop screen moves
instead of the mouse how can I fix it?
--
Jim S
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