rI am installing an 80 GB hard drive. I get into the bios and it shows 80 GB. I boot the machine up to the Win 98 startup disk, fun fdisk and partition. It will only partition to 10 GB. How do I get the whole 80 partitioned? Is this a bios limitation? It shows 80 GB in the bios. This machine came...

I received a pen drive from a friend (with no additional material). I couldn't figure out how to use it on my computer (Win98 2nd Ed.). I brought it to the computer lab at my school and plugged it into the USB port there. Immediately the computer (Win2000 or XP) recognized it and I was able to...

Windows 98 2nd edition hangs during normal start up. There are several huge Word files containing graphics that have caused the freezing problem. I was looking at one in safe mode in preparation to delete it when the computer froze again. Now start up does not complete in safe mode either. How...

See if there is a "c:\winboot.ini" file. If so, rename or delete it. Ben "Kentiguous" wrote in message = ... In Win98SE I've tried the following, in MSDOS.SYS: =20 AutoScan=3D0

I have a computer running windows 98 SE and I want to password protect it. I set the password in control panel/passwords but on logon I can simply press cancel on the password dialog and windows will continue to load. How can I cause the password to be required for access? Thanx

Giving away old computer want to know if I give 98 sec disk away to will any of my information transfer over.

Hello all,, Going to go deep into a computers ability regarding the 'desktop' and its capabilities. How much information and how many icons can a desktop cope with? How close together can they be? (this includes the fact that descriptions of the icons are attached to the icons themselves) Can this...

Hi guys, My computer has just done the oddest thing(s). While in n/g it just froze; wouldnt let me ctrl+alt+del either. Since then I have re-booted and run all obvious adaware and virus scans etc. I went to defrag too and it really spat the dummy there. First it sort of stopped then the screen...

I am going to New York to help baby-sit my two nieces and wanted to inform this newsgroup that I will be away and everyone will get a much needed break from me. smile I am sure all the MVP's, Hugh, PCR, et. all will be able to help users with their problems. My sister and brother-in-law who...

Hi, I installed Netzero at a time when I was using Netscape 4.61. Last year, I installed Netscape 7.1 browser (no email or newsgroup functions). I set Netscape 7.1 as the default browser, but ever time I launch Netzero (free web access version), it insist on launching V4.61. I checked...

I have this PC running Win 98. At boot-up into Windows it hangs at C:\REM . It eventually boots into Windows but it takes forever and a day. I haven't troubleshooted Win 98 in a long time. I think I recall a fix to this but I can't find it. Hopefully this fix is fresh in someone's head here. ...

I went to the Microsoft site, and (in a weak moment) allowed it to install some 26 "Critical updates". (Wonder why my machine ran so sweet for some two years withou them.) Anyway, it has done at least one thing for me so far: On my desktop, the icons now again show those hooked arrows at the...

Hello! First, let me say, I know just enough to be dangerous! I have a friend with an older computer running Windows 98. It was given to him by a friend. It was loaded with Win 98 and other applications. The hard drive was partitioned MANY times for some reason. My friend does not have any...

February 8, 2005 Today Microsoft released the following Security Bulletin(s). Note: www.microsoft.com/technet/security and www.microsoft.com/security are authoritative in all matters concerning Microsoft Security Bulletins! ANY e-mail, web board or newsgroup posting (including this one) should be...

The cat came back the very next day... The cat came back... he thought it was a goner, but... (repeat) or (repeat while banging head against a wall)

Twice in the last two days I've tried to restart my Windows 98 Dell Dimension in Safe mode, by clicking restart, and then, when the Dell "globe" appeared, steadily holding down the control key. In the past this has always worked. But these last two times, Windows started up normally instead of in...

I'm out of USB ports so I need to buy a hub. My question is, should I get USB 2.0 or 1.1? I'm pretty sure my circa 1999 PC's USB ports are version 1.1 (is there a way to verify this?). Will 2.0 hubs work on Windows 98 with 1.1 ports? You may wonder why I want a 2.0 hub if I have 1.1 ports. The...

explorer won't function or is very slow. I have removed all cookies, have no viruses, and no spyware on my computer. I have replaced my modem. I am going to run a simms check. After that I don't know what to do. Help!

I've gotten rid of the thing. (knock wood) I was able to get rid of se.dll, but it kept coming back. Look for fenp.dll It seems that in my case that a file called fenp.dll was writing se.dll and the various registry entries.

Not sure where to ask this question? My wife teaches some computer classes at a school. She has a student that ocassionally has dental work and has xrays and takes some medicine. When he comes back to school and sets at his computer with out touching the pc it starts opening file and you have...