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win98 vs win98se by dawilknsn
I am wanting to upgrade from windows95 to windows98. Which would be the best one to upgraade to windows98 or windows98se? I am assuming the SE stands for Second Edition.
July 24th 05 07:41 PM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Only boot from cd rom by annie
A friend has this old pc with win 98. It will only boot with the win 98 cd in the rom. I tried every combination of boot sequence in the bios, the only 2 that will get the thing going is c, cd rom or cd rom , c. A menu will then come up asking to boot from hard drive or cd rom. I choose hard...
July 24th 05 04:05 PM
by glee Go to last post
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Network Neighborhood - Adding Service by Zel Dolinsky
First thank you very much for trying to help out. Although I am going to talk about DCC the issue is actually very much simpler per below. I am trying to use Direct-Cable-Connection (DCC) which I have successfully done before using other computers. I seem to be getting stuck at a very simple...
July 24th 05 05:00 AM
by Zel Dolinsky Go to last post
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need to remove "Network" from Win98SE to use Outlook by Elle
Computer was not working well so I reformatted the hard drive. When I re-installed Win98SE I intended to connect two computers, so I said it would be a network. Now I don't want to use the second computer. Problem: Outlook (Office 2000) will not open. Message: must connect to your...
July 23rd 05 05:45 PM
by Elle Go to last post
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Windows 98 New Hard drive install by OceanmindedLiz
Hey all. I just reformatted my computer. And it's a little old, Gateway 2000. I'm trying to reinstall Windows 98 2nd edition but I can't. It's the upgrade disk and I have to have another OS on the computer I think. Is there any way someone can help me? Should I install 95 and try to upgrade from...
July 23rd 05 02:15 PM
by Jon_Hildrum Go to last post
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Computer Hangs On Verifyinf DMI Pool Data by standing_guitar
I've been tackling this problem for a while now and I'm completely out of ideas. I know this is hardware related for sure, because when I turn on my computer, it does the memory test fine, detects all the drives fine...but, when I reach 'Verifying DMI Pool Data' it just stops. There is no...
July 23rd 05 04:04 AM
by glee Go to last post
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Boot problem by ronbo76
Hello, Today I was given a computer that would only boot in SAFE mode. I ran all the recommended trouble shooting modes (suggested in the Help file). I came to one that had me type the following commands: c:\windows\command\attrib -h -s -r c:\system.1st c:\windows\command\attrib -h -s -r...
July 21st 05 07:41 AM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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Find doesn't show file path by Capthzm
All of a sudden when I do a find search- it will find the file- the size-date-type-but it doesn't tell you where it is at- the column is there- it's just blank-anyone know how to restore it-thank -Jay
July 21st 05 04:51 AM
by Capthzm Go to last post
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Fixing USB by Andrew Chalk
My Samsung ML-1710 USB connected laser printer driver installed fine. The printer is shown as "ready". However, whenever I try and print anything it fails with a "USB error" (no details). Is there a straightforward way to reinstall USB on Win98SE? Anyone else have this problem and know how to...
July 20th 05 07:40 PM
by Andrew Chalk Go to last post
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Setting up Windows98 by joshb
Hi guys, I'm currently working on a 133mhz computer which I'm trying to get up just so someone in the family can have something to listen to. Basically, here's my problem: I used the Win98 Boot Disk from www.bootdisk.com, used FDISK to delete the current active partition and then remade a new...
July 20th 05 02:59 AM
by Bill Watt Go to last post
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Product Key 98/reinstalling/regedit? by Bruce
I need to clean a HD off, they can't find the book, they do have a legal copy of 98, which goes to this computer. I know you can find the key by searching regedit, what would it be under?
July 19th 05 07:13 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Can't load the DLL library by merkinp
I recently put a new HDD in an old computer and replaced the W98SE OS. I had saved the drivers and got the system operating again without too much trouble. However, when I tried to load some ATT dial-up connection software I got the message "Cannot load the DLL library D:\WINCLIENT\wisehlp.dll". I...
July 19th 05 01:11 PM
by philo Go to last post
2 1,293
Parallel Port Issues by [email protected]
Hello all, I am having a problem that I have never seen before. I have a pc that has onboard printer port. This is defaulted to lpt1. I installed another parallel card in the machine, but it pops up as lpt3. Leaving lpt2 missing. I have tried to go into the registry and rename lpt3 to lpt2,...
July 18th 05 10:30 AM
by cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) Go to last post
5 1,057
Dial-up netwroking is missing by Steve
My friend just bought a second-hand PC from the IT department at his workplace. It has Windows 98 (not SE) and has always been used on a network. I bought a 56k PCI modem and installed it OK, but dial-up networking on the machine is missing. Going into add/remove programs and clicking on the...
July 18th 05 06:38 AM
by Steve Go to last post
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Drivers--Where are they? by Joe McGuire
Help! My Compaq notebook (Win98SE) seems to be demanding certain drivers (or the non-existent Win98SE CD) while booting up after reinstalling a Wireless adapter which used to work pretty well until recently. The computer cannot find these files anywhere I can think of,...
July 17th 05 01:37 AM
by PattyL Go to last post
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Can't Install Win98 by Nospam
I just replaced a crashed hard drive in a circa 2000 Compaq Presario desktop. Now I can't get Windows 98 to install. I would upgrade to either Win2000 or XP, but Compaq offers no video drivers for anything but Win98. The problem is that I can't get the CD-ROM drive to boot the Win 98 CD. It will...
July 16th 05 06:55 AM
by Bill Watt Go to last post
1 1,117
Win 98 will not boot by adamsean007
I have been working on my friends Compaq Presario 5712, which is dead in the water. I am unable to boot it in normal or safe mode. I receive to error messages, one is a security message and the other is a explorer message. The ezplorer message = "This program has performed an illegal operation...
July 14th 05 01:39 AM
by adamsean007 Go to last post
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Windows 98 install problems by Jmach1
hi. i am having some serious problems reinstalling windows 98. at first it was the hard drive(it failed) but i got a new one and i still can't install windows without receiving all kinds of error messages. for example, when i get to the part where i enter my key, an error message pops up...
July 13th 05 10:42 PM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
1 1,150
Drive A: by rmpete
Is there any way I can get my USB Floppy Drive to become drive A: so I can make a startup floppy disk in Windows 98? Thanks
July 13th 05 03:18 AM
by Bill Watt Go to last post
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Win98SE boot problem by AMW
Hello all Having a problem with windows freezing on startup. I believe it almost gets to the desktop before it stops. I can get into safe mode. Here's what I've tried so far; Virus scan spyware scan turn off graphic card hardware acceleration in msconfig I unchecked all startup items
July 12th 05 10:55 PM
by Ron Martell Go to last post
1 1,283
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