Roy, I am sorry to hear but I had the similar problem a few months ago. It sounds to me like your mouse had went kaput. Its time for a new serial mouse. As you know the serial to ps2 adapters don't always work. I had learned that the hard way. This company is the one one I know that is still...

Bob, You might want to change your com port settings for your modem.

I remembered back in the dos days that your serial mouse works in the bios so I think it is not true. The drivers does not have to be recogized in order to use the serial mouse. I know that the serial mouse is very hard to find. I found this company on the internet that is still selling the...

None of my folders r openin. when i try to open my comp. or my docs or control panel, it gives me an error "Explorer- This program has performed an illegal operation and therefore terminated". But my programs r running like my net , internet explorer, my game through shortcut on desktop etc. Plz...

Hello: Recently my cable net provider told me, " My cable Modem could not reaquire, After we did signal ect. trouble shooting, and that I would have to uninstall my firewall". After doing that and reinstalling, rebooting and trying to defragment D: drive, my Second Hard Drive D: DISSAPEARED. As my...

Denny: DS Customer runs old programs, Quicken 6, and Quattropro. DS About 4 days ago both .EXE programs vanished. We DS installed Quicken again and it worked for 2 days then DS gone again. Reinstalled again okay. Did current virus DS scan with 2 systems and found nothing. Windows...

Hello, Can anyone tell me whether the Tweak UI that's on the Win98 CD is the same version as Tweak UI 1.33. Thanks.

I discovered something pretty bizarre this morning and I have been shaking my head ever since. For some unknown, twilight zone like reason, my IE 6 has somehow turned itself into IE 5!! While double checking my version number by opening the browser and choosing Help, the box opens up and says...

Hi. Does anyone know how I would go about uninstalling IE5 without the uninstall option in Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel? For some wacked out reason, my IE6 turned into IE5 and I have no idea how (IE5, version 6.0!! figure that one out!?)! I need to uninstall this mess manually but I don't...

Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. Disable Background Compacting and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm. Also see...

First, I do not know if this is the correct forum, but I will post here and move or repost as necessary. I have a small network comprised of 5 systems as follows. 1 windows 98 machine with Office XP installed 1 Mac 0S 9.2 machine 1 Mac OS 8.x machine 1 Linux file server for Mac/Windows file...

Hey Martin I was having somewhat the same problem. Like you I tried scanreg /restore. Finally the command that fixed my computer somehow was I used scanreg /fix from the C: prompt. Hope that helps

Is anyone familiar with the command that opens the startup programs dialog box? It opens a dialog box similiar to the winipcfg command. I'd like to edit the programs automatically starting up that don't appear in the startup menu.

I had to reinstall my 98 SE and now I can't find my driver updates. I know the name of it, but that isn't helping at all. My screen is so big I can hardly use this thing. I have a Gateway EV500 monitor. I have a Plug and Play Monitor, with a Rage 128 VR English :) and when I go to Gateway site I...

I'm considering upgrading to Windows 2000 Pro from Windows 98. Has anyone experienced problems with this process? I don't want to attempt it if there has been any issues...I'm not very computer literate to solve any problems that may arise. Thanks.

Have copied Win98 Cab Files to hard disk. Where in the registry do I change to show this so that I don't have to input CD when windows calls for it? Thanks in advance. Lavert Bryant Powder Springs GA

I have a question. When I minimize my windows, the windows disappear. For some reason the tool bar on the bottom of my screen doesn't show me the windows that are open. Any ideas?

I had microsoft word on my comp. I had a virus and had to put discs in to redo my comp and microsoft word did not come back on. All my other things came back on just like they had been. How do I get microsoft word back on?

Hi all I hope someone may be able to help out with this. I've used Windows Update today (first time for ages) and downloaded / installed a lot of upgrades, etc from Microsoft. Having done all that, ever time I now connect to the Internet (AOL is my ISP) I get an error meesage as soon as AOL...

i'm running windows 98 on a dell something w/ celeron processor & 128 mb of ram, 56k connect. I ran this wack virus program that found viruses but couldnt clean most of them only delete or rename. After that I updated internet explorer to v6. When the computer restarted an error message appeared...