In an earlier post I described my problem trying to format. the problems in a nutshell are this; 1. when trying to format, on screen identifies the cd drive but says initialization of the cd drive failed. 2. I downloaded a win98 ebd from bootdisk.com that apparently has universal drivers for cd...

mfc71.dll I have a corrupted file and cna't seem to install a clean dll. I downloaded one from dll.com and after unzipping it, all I find is the info but no file. Is there a better way? I use WIN98SE

Anyone know of where I can't get an updated or replacement of keyboard.drv that will work with my Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222? I can't load any regular windows drivers or anything because "I have to enter a name to use Windows" In my bootlog.txt it shows successful loading of KEYBOARD.DRV, but it...

I have deleted and made new partition, formatted and then try to install win 98. I have used 3 different Win 98 cd's, all the same results. This is the message I get. error loading user.exe please remove any floppy disks from your drives and press any key to restart. Then it all stops. ???? ...

Have I gone stark raving mad?! took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some...

Help! My Compaq notebook (Win98SE) seems to be demanding certain drivers (or the non-existent Win98SE CD) while booting up after reinstalling a Wireless adapter which used to work pretty well until recently. The computer cannot find these files anywhere I can think of,...

Hello, Today I was given a computer that would only boot in SAFE mode. I ran all the recommended trouble shooting modes (suggested in the Help file). I came to one that had me type the following commands: c:\windows\command\attrib -h -s -r c:\system.1st c:\windows\command\attrib -h -s -r...

I have a Win 98 boot disk with wipe on it. I wiped the drive clean. I try to fdisk and it asks me if I want to us a large format drive. I press ENTER because the "Y" is already present and it returns to the A:\ prompt. Tried this with 2 boot disk, same results. Using a PowerSpec PC with 766 MHz...

I want to select CYRILLIC in WINDOWS SETUP / MULTILANGUAGE SUPPORT but the corresponded checkbox lacks I have made many installations with the same setup without such problems. Thanks in advance

How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag...

After uninstalling Norton Internet Security, Windows 98SE would not reboot. It gave me the error "Fatal exception 0D occured at 16A7:000014E3. Press any key to continue." Pressing any key causes the computer to hang (black screen). I rebooted using the Win98 boot disk that allows access to...

Hello, I have Windows 98SE for a long time now (has been the most hardware-change surviving OS so far with only 2 installs in over 3 years) and a relatively new motherboard with a 900 MHz Celeron in it and 786 MB of memory. The machine also has a RAID0 array, SBLive! 5.1 soundcard and a brand new...

I am running Windows98 Second edition. No system problems. As part of a routine I ran scanreg/fix and to my surprise it hung up on Fixing System.dat. My system has been running fine and the last time I ran scanreg/fix was about a month ago. I then restored yesterday's registry and got the same...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!......................................................... @#$%^&* Computers @#$%^&*!!! I won't tell you what I have gone through with defective hardware before I got to this point but I REALLY would like something to work as it should right now. Here's...

Hi all, this is fairly recent, within the last week, but I started crashing when opening or closing stuff when the windows explorer was open or when I tried to open or close it when other things are running. typically I have my Eudora mail program open, Textpad, Windows Explorer, MSIE, and at...

I have a situation where open windows are smaller than the content of the window. For example when I open the window to the connection to my DSL, the window is a specific size and can't be adjusted, but I can't see or select the button that allows me to connect to the internet. How do I adjust...

How can I change com ports on network and modem adapters? My modem ended up on COM3, while the serial port it should be attached to is COM2. Jim L -- Reporters complain that Guantanamo interrogators use psychological pressure on prisoners. Too bad the reporters aren't the ones those guys were...

Does anybody know where I can get a legalcopy of the upgrade disk from Win98 to 98SE? I've got some old software that will only run under 98 or 98SE. Thanks, Oppie

Well, I think I really messed up my HP Pavilion 8550C. Is there any hope? I was having all kinds of problems with my system so I decided to reformat. I couldn't get my recovery disks to work. I went into Dos and did a Format. It came back with No Operating System. I used a bootable floppy and...

Hi, How do I register my Windows 98 if I have no Internet connection? I did not recieve a postal registration form when I purchased it. I tried using a computer at a net cafe (right now) but ended up registering it instead in my name (and besides, I believe the software on this computer is...