I have an SCM Smart Card from 1996 which runs under DOS and Win3.1. On Win98 (dual boot) it found the card reader and I installed it. It knows when the card is removed and the card reader itself beeps when w98 comes up. But it does not create any drive letter for using the PCMCIA card. I use it...

When I put a CD in my DVD or CD drive nothing is recognized. They work because I wouldn't be able to put a CD in them, but they don't play and when I go into Device Manager to see what the problem is, it says that the device is working properly but the drivers haven't been installed and the...

I have pretty new computer and I couldn't install Windows 98SE. I have Asus P4C800-E, P4 3.00 HT, and 80 GB S-ATA. How can I install Win98SE onto this computer, I was trying setupcor's comand. Please help me!

When trying to open mydocuments an error said: "Error loding Explorer.EXE. you have to reinstall windows. And "I" don't want to do thar, I want to avoid that and fix the the problem. And I do have another win98SE PC, do you think I'm able to replace Explorer.EXE on here with the one on the other,...

(This is a question about running in MSDOS from a Win98 bootdisk ... I couldn't find a more appropriate looking Microsoft group to use. If it's inappropriate here, perhaps someone could direct me to the correct group). I'm trying to set up a dos boot with network access so that I can backup my...

I made a stupid mistake today on my old Win98 SE PC. I allowed Windows Update to upgrade DirectX to version 9.0c, and I did not do a backup first. Now when the computer starts up, everything looks fine, I log in with my user name and password, the start bar on the bottom of the screen displays...

Using Windows 98SE, I temporarily closed the Quick Launch Toolbar by right clicking the taskbar, selecting Toolbars and unchecking Quick Launch Toolbar. After I re-enabled the Quick Launch Toolbar, it isn't located where it previously was. Initially, it was just to the right of the Start...

I say hesitation cause its not long enough of a delay to be considered hanging. But after installing Win98SE over Win98FE and also over a separated Win98Se partition, both developed this hesitation at a point when the desktop is almost fully loaded anyway. Its only for a about 5-10 seconds, and...

Hi, I've one copy of windows 98 (not upgrade version) burnt with other softwares in one CD i.e. that windows 98 software was under one specific subdirectory. When I need to change some H/W settings (e.g. add/remove H/W) in my computer, the windows 98 installed in my PC will prompt me to insert CD...

whenever i try to start my win98se the windows makes it to the opening backdrop with the message "explorer, this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down". the details say " explorer caused an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe at 0197:00401f31. My win98 startup disk...

I just installed 98SE over itself in hopes of curing a network problem. It completed normally. Now it won't boot. Just starts out with some error messages that some aps are being shut down for illegal operation - spool32 and Msgsrv32. Then that MSPWL32 won't start, then the blueish green screen of...

I have an Intel D845WN board, 256m ram, Albatron AGP video card, Maxtor 20g hard drive. All new. This is a spare system I am setting up. I have a near identical system. Problem is I cannot install/setup any operating system. No matter which system, 98, 98SE, even 95 will not install. Any help will...

Suddenly my CD RW doesn't show up in the device manager. It only list a CD Rom not the brand and type that I have installed. I have a driver floppy that came with the drive but I can't get it to install. How do I get it to install? Whenever I try to use my CD drives I have to switch from one to...

after formating c drive, i inserted the win 98 SE in the cd rom drive and typed setup. scandisk applied and there was no error with my disk drive but after that this appears: Standard Mode: Fault in MS-DOS Extender EC=0000 CS=0053 IP=232F AX=0000 BX=0BFF CX=0000 DX=FFF0 SI=35EC DI=FFE8 BP=0000...

hi all, I am booted up in "real" dos mode... I was running a dos AV program, F-Protdos, and it indentified a lot of files in the the C:\windows\temp folder as being "a security risk", and so just to save some time, I manually deleted all the subfolders using the deltree command and it took all...

Using a Win 98 boot disk and original CD.....I get the A prompt ...type in d:....then format c: and enter....I type yes for fomat and it seems to work fine so far....then at the D prompt....I type D:\setup and it says bad command??????? I've formatted before on other computers this way and...

I need to get my PC up and running again - I gave up on it when it got viruses etc.. How do I wipe clean and re-install everything. With my PC came the following discs etc. A Microsoft floppy "BOOT DISK WINDOWS 98 SE" A Microsoft CD "WINDOWS 98 SE" (A Microsoft CD "WINDOWS 98 STARTS HERE")

I have a machine that's been running Win98SE and Win98 before that for 7-8 years. Well a few days ago it just quit booting. My best guess is that the registry seems to be messed up in some way. The machine WILL boot in Safe Mode and I can see all the files/drives just fine. At this point I really...

My system has two physically identical hard drives, C and D, plus a CDROM designated E:. I formatted C and did a clean install of 98SE. However, for some reason it created a new hard drive named E: and labelled the CDROM as F: C: is ok and contains Windows and the programs. D: shows as a zero byte...

Curt, I have this problem also. What number did you call to get this for free? All I can find at the link you provided is one that states cost $35! Any chance you can post this patch? Thanks, gm Curt Christianson wrote: