As dumb as it gets! Win98....I have 2 files ios.vxd and ifsmgr.vxd in the Recycle Bin. The system won't boot without these files in Normal or Safe mode. Scanreg.exe does not restore or fix these files. Unfortunatelly, the laptop only has floppy disk drive. If there is any way, anyone can...

While trying to set up a dual boot to a new XP partition apparently corrupted the boot record for the Win98SE partition. I say that because when I use Boot Magic or PQ boot it boots OK to the XP partition but when I set the Win98SE partiton active it takes me to a MS boot loader menu offering a...

How do I add new icons that can be accessed when I click on "change icon"? Thank you very much to whomever can tell me. Candy

I have an Ibm clone that I recently purchased and somehow it has dropped the winit.exe in the startup, as a result it shuts down as soon as it starts opening windows. I do not have a win 98 disk but the disk has been copied to the hard drive how can I restore the missing file since windows will not...

I had windows 98 on my work computer when I got hired, and found a windows 2000 disc in my office. i tried to install it and then realized that I needed a cd key code number, which was not with this disc. I then asked for help, and a friend un-installed the windows 2000 thing, at least i think...

Hi, I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled win 98. Everything seems fine except that the floppy drive hammers for about ten seconds every time I try to access the my computer icon or the control panel icon within it. Short of disconnecting the drive power supply (in case floppy drive...

Question from a colleague at work. Her computer came brand new with OEM Win98. It was plugged into the office network through the router. About a year ago it needed a new motherboard. When it came back from the repairshop, it had Win98SE on it. The repair shop did not supply any back up or...

Is it possible to access wherever Scandisk stores its information on bad areas of disks to delete that information? I suspect that when I bought a new hard disk a little while ago and transferred all my data to it, the copy program I was using caused a write error to one area of my new...

Hi: I hope somebody can help, I have an old Compaq laptop that is ready to die, but I need to grab a few files from it. Everytime I try to boot, it drops into Registry Checker, tells me a good registry has been restored, and asks for restart, but on restart it keeps dropping back into Registry...

Is there a version of Format that will recognize a NTFS partition and allow it to be re-formatted as FAT32? Wish to remove Win2000 in favor of Win98se. Machine only has a 3.5 dsk drive, no CD. CD is available via network share.

hi, ive asked about this already but i think i messed it up. im trying to wipe my computer and reinstall win. 98. i have deleted the partition as instructed and that worked fine. now when i try to reboot with the CD, it says theres an error and i should insert the setup (startup?)disk and...

Hi, I recently got a new XP, and bought the network equipment to go with it... My old 98 (which I am now going to give to my brother) worked OK. I networked them, then transferred all my old files into the new computer. My next step was to format the old computer, and put Win98SE on it with...

I hve forgotten the password to my bios setup utility, does anyone have any idea if one can work around this roadblock???? help -- JaVee

I went to try connecting to a network and found that, according to Microsoft's own list, quite a few files are missing from my W98SE CD. Yes, it's a Microsoft disk with the product key and all. Any suggestions what I can do about this? Jim L

I have 2 HDs on my PC. I'm trying to install Win98SE on my Secondary HD but every time I try to I can never get my Primary Dive to then boot up without first disconnecting the Secondary HD.....I've just ordered Windows XP HE upgrade and Ideally I would like this on my Primary Drive and 98SE on...

I have been working on my friends Compaq Presario 5712, which is dead in the water. I am unable to boot it in normal or safe mode. I receive to error messages, one is a security message and the other is a explorer message. The ezplorer message = "This program has performed an illegal operation...

Aside from changing desktop icons to transparent from pukey green, exactly what does Active Desktop do for me or against me? Jim L -- Terrorist citizens and innocent citizens say exactly the same thing: "I'm innocent!"

I am trying to install win98 SE, on a 95 based computer. I have fdisked, and formatted. but it seems that it doesnt clean everything off of there. I have a dir names WININST0 400...but I cant get rid of it. the computer doesnt boot, as it says "missing OS". I can begin the install of 98, and I get...

Hello, I have a problem that I haven't seen here yet, although I expect it is here somewhere. I have a desktop PC, 350 MHz, running Win98SE. One day it "lost" the sound card. I re-installed it, and went through all the steps of installing drivers. Windows said it was installed correctly.

OK now MS have finished all support for my much loved 98SE (he says in xp right now) I would like to create a 98SE CD with all the critical updates slipstreamed in and maybe the recommended updates as well but that is not vital, I basically want a CD that will allow me to do a fresh install of...