I have a program that tries to extract files into D:\TMP\ during install. There is not enough free space on D: for that. What determines that \TMP\ is on D: instead of C: or some other drive? OS=Win98SE Stan Hilliard

I needed to reinstall Norton Internet Security 2003 but got error message. Symantec advised updating DCOM98 and MS Installer. I downloaded the updated files from Microsoft. Booted to DOS promt. Renamed oleaut32.dll - oleaut32.old. Renamed msiexec.exe, msihnd.dll, msisip.dll, msi.dll...

in trying to make my computer automatically power down, I discovered that my "IRQ table has some errors" -- whatever that means. What do I do?

Running plain old 98 on a Dell Dimension; Anti-virus up to date etc If I leave system switched on & unused - it invariably "hangs" and can only be restored by re-setting. Internet connection is dial-up & off by the way. Any ideas where to start looking for the source of the problem? Thanks in...

I wonder if anyone has actually tested the following: Will HD read/write performance between two HD's be faster if 1. one is placed on the primary controller (IRQ 14) and one on the secondary (IRQ 15) 2. both are placed on the same controller (let's say primary), one as master, one as slave (does...

Hi, I have a problem of exit Windows 98 and back to 16-bit real DOS mode after the USB card reader installed. When I try to do that, Windows 98 close all programs and leave one item "Winoldap" at the task list. After about 30 seconds, the item appears to be "Winoldap (not responding)". Windows 98...

I just reinstalled 98 to my computer and the icons of files that I saved to my desktop and folders don't appear until I refresh the folder/desktop a minute or two later. If ya can help much thanks.

I sometimes wonder if the people who labor to keep this OS functioning to its original design parameters get enough credit for their work. Mr. Dundat, that was one hell of a fix for Troubleshooter. EOM

while trying to install anything on my win98se P4 with 512m of ram I get the following error: ERROR: real mode system memory sllocation failure. If I hit enter a few times I get the following message: An internal stack overflow caused this session to be halted. What does it all mean.

I've a client who recently performed a spyware cleanup on his Windows 98se computer, only to have it reboot with a mucked up desktop. All of the icons on the desktop now display the shortcut's filename eg. "photoshop.lnk". If they get into windows explorer and double click on a file, they get...

I am running Win 98 se- It all started with IE 6 spi... missing tbshooting files, IE 6 unable to repair due to wrong tdc.ocx version. Then I was unable to open yahoo applets or a second IE window (I would get a blank page) I unistalled IE 6 and windows restored previous version. I now get the...

I'm using a piece of learning software on multiple win98 machines. It's been installed for over 4 months with no problems. Last week on only one of the machines some of the text inside of the software turned into blocks instead of letters. I've tried running a virus scan on trendmicros web...

Printing some documents (always thinsg downloaded from the web and word processed), I find that if I set the print quality to standard or high, then some pages print at this quality and others revert to draft. Why does this happen, and more to the point, what can I do to prevent it? It doesn't...

Was going through posts in this group and saw a number of comments on 'disk imaging'. I've heard of 'imaging' from years back but never understood what it is, or how someone can take an 'image' and restore all their data from an image to another drive. To me imaging sounds like backing-up...

Hi, i am using windows 98 SE, and on start up i get the following error: "Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a windows application. The windows registry or SYSTEM.INI file refers to this device file, but the device file no longer exists. If you deleted thsis file on...

Hi, when my computer finishes loading, i gett he following error message: "Unable to load the dynbamic link library nsnp32.dll. The system cannot find the file specified. Some or all the following feature is not available: Microsoft Network. can anyone help with this problem.

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I made a new file and inserted hyperlinks in it so as to open a document or web page from the link and need not to search for a file I saved somewhere and needed it again after some time. I deleted the file accidentally but then restored it from recycle bin, but since then weblinks work but not the...

Actually I have three questions... Is there any danger in deleting registry keys (and subkeys) for uninstalled programs? ie. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Copernic Need the subkeys to Copernic be deleted first or will deleting the Copernic key take care of it all?

I've seen the following error message twice in the past 3 days. Is this something to be concerned about? This error only appeared after I uninstalled Norton Internet Securities and replaced it with EZ Armor. Could this have something to do with it? Robert MSIMN caused an invalid page fault...