How about taking the HD out and installing it in another computer running Windows 9x/Me/XP/2K. You should then be able to read the drives contents. -----Original Message----- Hi; My Dell computer with a 120 gb hard drive running Win 98SE has serious

Greetings, We can use kill.exe (Windows 2000) or tskill.exe (Windows XP) to kill/stop running process. My question is how to I do the samething on Windows 98 or Windows ME? Please help, thanks.

My Win/98 PC has suddenly decided that it can't open .jpg extension files by double clicking, even though it managed to do it for five years. Instead of selecting PhotoEd to view the JPG image, I get the error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this...

When starting in normal mode, we get a "This program has performed an illegal operation" and details says "explorer cause an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe at 0167:00401f31" error. The KB says that's because explorer.exe is in the root of c:. Not so on this Dell laptop. Also, cannot...

When i use the file-open dialog in various applications the files are not sorted by extension. how can i change the settings, that the files are automatically sorted by extension, without clicking everytimes on the bar to sort them ? Thanks for hints, Norbert R.

Dear friends again Im writing to ask for your kindly help: I have problems with my modem. The applications as 'Dial- Up Networking' and my Terra access to=20 internet have serious difficulties to identify my modem.=20 This has started since I have some=20 problems with files in the \Windows...

Hi! Im having an strange problem with my Windows 98 SE system. This has appear recently... I opened a floppy disk and then some rare behaviors appear; specially in the Windows Explorer... now I cant see directories with the View like "a Web Page" feature enable... I check for recently files...

When booting up my computer "scandisk encountered a data error while reading the FAT entry for cluster 376832. This error prevents scandisk from fixing this drive". The only option I have is to click "OK". It continues trying to boot but never gets by the windows 98 screen. I don't know where to go...

Hello, Using msconfig.exe I can force a boot menu on startup. I wanting to know what is modified to force this. Is there a file or reg key that is set to force the boot menu? If so, what is it? Thank You, Jason Williard

My Win98 reports that my tachoma font is missing. How can I reinstall the font without reinstalling the whole Windows 98. KW

I RECENTLY INSTALLED WIN98 OVER WIN95 AND EVER SINCE THE SYSTEM DOES NOT SHOW THE DESKTOP ICONS, TOOLBAR, ETC JUST THE PUFFY CLOUDS AND BLUE SKY. I'VE GONE TO MICROSOFT SUPPORT FAQ AND FOUND THIS AND TRIED WHAT THEY SAID TO NO AVAIL. CAN ANYBODY HELP?

I recently installed win 98 over my old computer system win95. Now the thing opens to a blank desktop with the clouds and blue but nothing else except EXPLORER CAUSED AN INVALID PAGE FAULT IN MODULE BROWSEUI.DLL (CLOSE OR DETAILS). I've reinstalled the OS again to no avail. I've altered the...

I recently purchased a used scanner and it came with 3 installation discs. I installed it and it seemed to load to my computer hard drive , but when I try to open it from the desktop icon I get this message --" THE SHELL 32.DLL FILE islinked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SH REG GET US VAUE A " What...

Ran the windows update on a win98 (first) edition. First thing downloaded was the directX 9.0. After rebooting , the game Freecell will launch, but the cursor remains an hour glass anywhere inside the window border. The title bar, however, will show an arrow cursor, thus we can click on...

Today I find that the 'New' option is missing from both the file menu and the right click menu within folders when using windows explorer or in windows of open folders, it is also missing from the right click menu on the desktop. When I am using another file browser, PowerDesk, I still have the...

Under a Security Alert prompt error box I receive one stating, "your current security settings prohibit you from copying or moving files form this zone." Is this a registry error? I am on a network using windows 98 and this error comes up when copying TO the c drive from a Network drive.

I get the following message when I log on "user.dat not found" - is there someway as to how this can be fixed? Thanks

Hi Group, Ours is a webApplication which uses VC Redistributable Asssembly's(Dependent on MFC80.dll). For this sake we need to package 2 of the msm files along with our cab file and install them (msm files) on the Client machine. This installation we are planning to have it thru inf file. We...

Hi, Anyone know of a way to refresh the desktop, such as from a rundll call? I know there's "rundll32 user,repaintscreen" - but that is a repaint, not a refresh. I'm working on a little batchfile, based on some things from this...

What is $5 and 15 minutes when it can make you earn $100,000 ? Not much, if you ask me... You've probably seen a lot of those kind of messages over forums and newsgroups, and the explanation for this can be given in two words: IT WORKS! But how on earth, will you ask me, does it actually works?...