When my computer was starting up one morning a screen popped up and by moving the mouse I accidentally hit one of the buttons and didn't get to see what the screen was. Ever since then everything on my computer has been HUGE... when viewing pictures my pixels are huge and distorted. When I am...

I just reinstalled Windows 98 SE and my dispaly size on my Thinkpad is all screwed up. The size is locked at the low 640X480 and I have no options to increase. Please advise on how to get full usage of my laptop screen. Thanks, Dena

i purchased a laptop from a company that is upgrading their's. the system is win98..all was good. my daughter has the laptop at collge and she was trying to password protect the computer and now she gets an msg upon start up that says to type name (the original company name is still here) and she...

Hi everyone I am currently designing a CD cover with high file sized jpegs and everytime I open the file in my CD designer program, an error message pops up saying "VB Runtime error" and then I cannot continue with my project. I can open the file in my photos file and I don't get that error...

Is there a way to have the date appear, along with the time, in the bottom right of my desktop? -- Using Windows 98SE, IE6 and Avant 10 Browsers and PC-cillin Internet Security

please help..my screen size is 600x480 i think and it is driving me crazy..hard drive was corrupt and had another installed and win 98se reloaded but screen size is small and sits in the middle of the screen..have tried adjustin the screen size in my computer but this wont budge..was suggested to...

i cant go no where i keep getting windows-98-starting-ms-dos-based-programs- how do i go to safe mode or get back into my pc to get out off it? -- Posted using the http://www.windowsforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic...

hi everyone my son has a win98se machine with an S3 video card. because of other problems that i could not overcome, I installed from scratch ie I fdisk'd & installed from new and all went ok. the s3 video card was detected just a std vga adapter which I half expected. I used the latest set of...

Screen along with keyboard lock up frequently. Reinstalled Windows 98SE along with driver for RAGE IIC AGP. Problem persists. System Properties indicate the Hardware Status for RAGE IIC AGP (English) is as follows: Video Card Configuration: ASIC Type: 3D RAGE IIC PCI Video Memory: 4MB...

My computer runs Win98 SE and the browser is IE6. When I check any webpage with images, images show as if they were made of little squares, as if they did not have a "plain" texture. If I check the same webpage in another computer, pictures just show fine. If I check a picture on the computer...

Could you help me correct this situation? My keyboard is typing extra letters and letters I do not type. Here is an example: This compute7r is acting cr7az4y again. Late7r. Can this be corrected? Is it the keyboard?

I'd also need help to change my resolution, because it is "stuck" to 640x480 and when I try to change it from the control panel, it just won't change. Can somebody please help me with this proble. I see that some other people have had the same problem.

Hi, I keep getting a error message that pops up while I am working in Windows 98 SE. The message is "MSBB caused an invalid page fault in module kernell 32 ddl at 017f:bff7a338". Can someone please provide some information or resolution on how to eliminate this error message. Thanks,

I un-installed w/98 to install xp. Now I can't do anything. Missing drivers etc. Can't re-install w98. Disc will not pop up. HELP Thanks

My computer was put together by a friend of mine but I do know it had windows 98 on it. It was working fine until one day when we turned it on and when it got to the desktop everything was huge. WHen I right clicked to change the resolution that part was off the screen and I couldn't move the box...

Hi, I am looking for the origional drivers for a voodoo 3 graphics card? I know that 3Dfx has gone bust so where is the best place to get them for free? Does 98 include them in the standard hardware list?

I have windows 98 first edition on a IBM 300PL computer and purchased an disk with windows 98 second edition to upgrade my computer to windows 98 second edition. I am getting different answers to whether or not installing the windows 98 second edition upgrade will wipe out my hard drive and I will...

On booting, I get a message that a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a Microsoft application cannot be found. The file is IPVNMon.vxd. What application does this file support and what can I do to correct the problem?

When my computer is turned on and after the desktop is displayed, "drive c"(hardrive)folder with individual folders displays along with other icons that normally would appear on a computer desktop. I have had a compaq (Presario) for the last 5 years. My operating system is Windows 98 and my...

I have a problem that just appeared out of the blue and has me totally confused. For some reason, the last few days my desktop background has been stretching every image I have used previously - even those that are less than the regular 800x600 resolution. Note that they appear in the...