My son's laptop has been acting up, so we decided to fdisk and format the harddrive. All went well; however, his Gateway Solo has an interchangeable 1.44 disk drive and a CD-ROM. When I inserted the Startup disk, I chose option 1 - start computer with CD-Rom support. The computer couldn't find...

Hi, at the moment my PC is running very very slowly, and I can't understand why. I double click on a file and it loads about 60 seconds later. However if I enter the program and then open the document from there then it loads much quicker. Whats going on? Also when trying to shutdown the PC the...

" Identify the brand of hard drive, go to the drive maker's web site and download their diagnostic software. It runs from a floppy disk and will tell you the health of your hard drive. If the drive has failed, you will have to replace it. If it is OK, then we will have to sort out what...

Am trying to fix a Windows 98 machine. It would continually reboot. Sometimes it would reboot as soon as the desktop came up, other times would last a few minutes. I formatted the hard drive and re-installed Win 98 SE but it is still doing it. Any suggestions would be appreciated

I want to change the FIND icon on the standard toobarso that it uses the EXCITE search engine instead of NETZERO. Thanks in advance especially if this is something I shoud have known a long time ago. Art

I currently have Windows 95 and want to upgrade to 98 but can't figure out how. I've tried serveral different ways, but cannot. Please HELP!

HELP PLEASE!! When turning on my computer, everything seems to be booting up fine, then I get a blank screen saying "device VPICD, windows protection error resart your computer" which I do and this happens again and again. I have tried to boot up in safe mode but I now get...

I got a 6G HD to replace my original 1.6G C drive. it works OK, I just need more room. I already have a 3.2G as D drive. Whn I move things around to set a new startup, should I use the 3.2 or 6 as startup? Is speed the main issue? Should I put 98SE in its own partition on the new startup drive?

Some time ago, a racoon got into the house and destroyed some cds, one of which was my win98se cd. A friend made a copy of his for me. Yesterday, in the process of installing an eathernet board, the OS began giving me error messages. I threw in the OS cd and when it asked for my product key, I...

I have a laptop with an inoperable CD Drive. Can I download Windows 98 SE to floppies and install from there. I have a USB external CD/DVD but can't get the laptop to see it because of the drivers.

Is there a way to backup the desktop layout. I get a lot of crashes lately and often the desktop icons come up all squashed to one side. I tried to find a file that has those settings, but no luck. I think now that it is integrated into the swap file... Any advise will be...

how do i get into safe mode from DOS?

Hi. I've recently had need to flatten my PC, and I'm trying to rebuild it, but I've having major problems with installing Win98. The setup process seems to go okay, but it always hits a point where I get a message about not being able to load c:windows\system\vmm32.vxd, it being either missing...

why do I get this ALL the time? IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in module WININET.DLL at 0247:7022ebbf.

I had an old slave hard drive go bad and replaced it with a 200 GB Seagate. The operating system is WIN 98 SE and it is limited to 137 GB. The problem that arose is during the install, and trying to boot, my system file command.com is not found by my computer anymore. Any ideas as to how to get...

I have Windows 98 Second Edition. I went to check under Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information. When I clicked on System Information, it told me I have a missing .DLL file - MSVCRT40.DLL. Can someone please tell me how to restore this file. Thanks so much. My email address...

uninstalled software allways online not fully uninstalled try to disable in start up click on system configuration utility to get to startup but it only flashes and will not stay open for me to do a selective startup thankypu

Had to re-install win98. After setup is complete, the computer re-boots and it tells me that it is "building driver information database. After this, I get a white box error message that says "Error loading explorer.ese You must reinstall windows." When I close this window, I get another windows...

I would like to type a letter but on yhe left side of the page about three inches from the top there is a flashing line and when I take my curser to drag it off it becomes thicker but seizes to flash How do I remove this? Also, how do I set the margins on both left and right? Scott.