I get an error message in MS-DOS mode of Windows 98 Second Edition. The error message tells me I must reduce my memory with vcache or change my settings. I will post back the exact message and also see if I can fix it myself.

Troll 1, Group -6 (so far) -- thanatoid: So why did you decide you needed broadband? Neighbor: I wanted to read my e-mail faster.

In an effort to make more disc space on this computer, I removed Real Player. I also seem to have Real Player 4 installed. I tried to remove it and at 33% I got the message Could not delete file C:\windows\SYSTEM\decdnet.dll. So I searched for it in Explorer and deleted it manually. I then got an...

Hi, Friends, I need your guys' help urgently. I am still using Window 98 for my Pen III desktop. Yesterday I misktakenly deleted the system files ( I am not good at computer). These deleted files are in the recycle bin because I did not empty the recycle bin. When I restarted the computer, the...

Running IE6 on this Win98. I keep my cookies to 12 related only to websites I'm registered with. I keep 'temporary' stripped and empty every session. Yet, I just visited Microsoft website for IE problems and now am receiving a flurry of 'official looking' notices from MS that say click here to...

98SE on an older Thinkpad. Thought it was acting sluggish, ran the CA AV plus Spybot S&D, but nothing, so I decided to run Bit Defender's online scan. Somewhere during the scan, a message flashed on the screen, just got a glimpse of it, said it had found and eliminated a problem, did not get the...

apologies ahead of time, but this group has ALWAYS helped, so I'm back. I just spent two fruitless hours searching the net for info on this and zip! Here is the problem: I've got a CD Drive, Creative 24Xmx Model CR-585- B that has a CD in it that I cannot extricate. Yes, I tried the drive in a...

What is the best way to edit a line in msconfig.exe? In this case I want to delete the line which refers to removed software in the autoexe.bat file left after an uninstall. What was the editing tool prior to this msconfig.exe, sysconfig or something?

Hi everyone. After so many of you helped me so much recently while I was trying to get USB operating reliably on 98 I just have to tell you this. Several days ago I posted that I was giving up and putting W2K on the laptop, which works fine, but is quite sluggish. Well, I just can't seem to...

For no obvious reason, my Windows 98 computer wil not start up.. It freezes on the first black screen with white writing stating that the "Dos key is installed" and "Mode select code page function is completed". The only way I can get rid of this is to press the restart button after which I can...

My wife has an old Dell Intel x86 system, Windows 98, 2nd edition version 4.10.2222A, 128MB RAM. Admittedly this is an almost extinct dinosaur, but it does what my wife needs to do. She's a prolific writer, but very, very few pieces longer than 5 pages in Word (articles). And she does lots of...

I am referring to PCR and the "So-Called" XP radiation and how the effects of Vista radiation appear to be even stronger in making people mean to each other. Here is a recent...

Ok so I have a game called "Re-Volt"!! Its a car racing game its very old and it has never failed to work untail now!!!!!!! Ok so i double click on it and it goes to the reagular black screen telling its counpany and all ofthat other junk but then it says "Error no Zbuffer available" then I...

What is default value for the MaxConnections value in the Windows TCP/IP Registry Entries in Windows 98? I need know this to be able to set correct global maximum number of connections(need be set lower than the value for the MaxConnections value in the Windows TCP/IP Registry Entries.)

What is the difference between VGA, HDMI, AND DVI? Networking new computer with win 98se. Which do I use? Ginny

I guess 2.0.0.14 will be it.

Hi Iam using WINDOWS XP SP2.Iam having problem with my PC, when i press shutdown in my moniter it is restarting and when i press it in my cpu also it is restarting. Please give me a suggestion that i can rectify this. Thank you for sparing your valuable time.

Does anyone have any remmendations on software that will keep a particular window always on top?

Hmm, so once again someone decides to test whether malware/attack sites are on the rise and how... Using Google's tool the quest was on.... 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1339 Malicious Doorways Redirecting to...

I was just looking over your website and the security article fails to load. Did you temporarily remove it? http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer give me the message that this page cannot be found.