My printer icon in the Start - Control Panel - Printers folder, has two property settings called Timeout Settings - Not Selected (in seconds) Timeout Settings - Transmission Retry (in seconds) I haven't been able to find out what these setting mean. Also under what circumstance should they be...

Win98SE. First symptom was "cannot find start.exe" when the system was booted. I coppied the start.exe from c:\win'\command to the root folder and c:\windows. We no longer get the "cannot find start.exe" message but all *.exe files fail to run, and at boot about 20 msdos windows open but...

Yes, at this time I still am. wrote in message ... Hi Mark - Still having problems with icon dragging and selecting? We'll start a new thread if you like.

I just used it for the first time and it asked me to backup my registry, I said yes...so where did the backup go? I looked, but couldn't find it.

Someone please tell me what this file is? Ncompare.exe is still quarantined due to being infected and cannot be fixed. Is it something important? Windows is running fine and has not complained :)

Mindtrip wrote in news:2aobs0dtpbiut2kgcvmo2i68khfgl10g3v@ 4ax.com: I copied files from my old system running 98SE onto a new drive for a system running WinXP Home. Both drives are running FAT32. In XP, only the folder name appears. If I put the drive back intot he 98 ...

Sorry if this is off topic. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Power spike blew power supply in my Windows98 machine. Gigabyte GWMM7 with Intel810 chipset. Replaced power supply, motherboard "light" lights up but nothing else happens! No BIOS beep codes, no hard drive running....

Scott: S hello, folks :) i have a question/concern about my floppy drive. S S very recently, i was going through some of my floppies and all of a sudden, S my floppy wouldn't read them. i'd get the message "floppy not formatted" on S all floppies. i knew there was something awry. so, i...

I don't have anything sophisticated in the way of sound cards, speakers, etc. But when I'm using Media Player and I turn up the volume on the Volume Control to get sufficent sound from the media file, all of the "sounds" on my computer are SUPER loud. I've tried all combinations of volume on...

hello, folks :) i have a question/concern about my floppy drive. very recently, i was going through some of my floppies and all of a sudden, my floppy wouldn't read them. i'd get the message "floppy not formatted" on all floppies. i knew there was something awry. so, i replaced it with a...

After a reinstall of 98SE, IE6 and Office2K I am unable to install MS Money 2002 because of an error " . MSIEXEC.EXE missing...Device attached to the system is not working and now Outlook is returning the same error. I am unable to remove office as it is not listed in the add/remove listings of...

The Maximized and minized icon become number (corrupted ) in Windows 98 It seem that the default windows fonts is damaged? What is the name of such fonts and solutions to this (recove the fonts in safe mode?) Thx in advance Michael Lam

Moir: M Sorry if this is off topic. Maybe someone can point me in the right M direction. M M Power spike blew power supply in my Windows98 machine. Gigabyte GWMM7 with M Intel810 chipset. M M Replaced power supply, motherboard "light" lights up but nothing else M happens! No BIOS...

Arfer: A Am trying to help a friend of mine and am unable to type @ from his A keyboard. A I have substituted my keyboard for his to no avail A Going to the Control Panel, keyboard I can find no problem nor can I A find any problem in the Device Manager. A I cannot think of any...

Hi, I bought a used HP Pavilion laptop (Win98) with a built in DVD player. The owner said he never played a DVD. When I tried to play a DVD, I first had to pick a "region" (continent), one of 5. What happens after all 5 regions are used? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your...

After a restore from back-up and re-install of Norton System Works 2003, the recycle bin is no longer in the directory tree. How do I retrieve the recycle bin? I assume this is just an adjust to the registry. Thanks for the help. (Win98SE)

My win98 was infested by adware or virus.I was able to kill the virus, but now nothing workes anymore. I don't worry about loosing data, its all on my 2nd pc. So I am thinking of formatting the harddrive, but then wat'll I do? I have all the original software disks, do I start with the Windows...

win98se produces an error 1615:1003 while opening mathcad saying NT users should logon with administrator rights. This occurs just recently since I downloaded an os-update. I tried to reinstall win98se and mathcad but the same error code appears again. Is there any solution? Kind regards Peter

I have my win 98 networked to this machine, a win xp via a LAN (I think it's called). Anyway, Although I can talk back and forth to the 98 from here, the xp, all the sudden the 98 one is asking (insisting) for a password. I have never used one in that configuration and I have no idea what it is...

now and then i get this error message when online or when trying to use I explorer. Could anyone help? It reads as follows: IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff9db61. Registers: EAX=c00309c4 CS=017f EIP=bff9db61 EFLGS=00010212 EBX=0097fe28 SS=0187 ESP=0087ff7c...