I am running a WIN98 SE machine with a new hard drive installed about a week ago. For some reason every so often 15-20 minutes it automatically reboots on me. No error message or anything, but when it reboots it acts like it was just shut off and runs a scan disk. It is plugged in properly and...

When I click Restart in DOS, it says access denied (to file Windows/Exit to Dos.pif). Can't access any of the .pif files. I did an SFC and ran Spybot, AdAware, etc. My system is clean. Should I reinstall Win98SE?

Running Win98FE and installed the sothink flv player Works great!, full screen, just double click on the .flv file and the video runs. Except... The icon in front of the .flv stays generic as though nothing will open it.

I am running Win98SE on partition c: and WinXP Pro on partition e: From the boot loader, when win98se is selected, I get an error from "shell" about not finding krnl32.exe. I believe I had a virus and have cleaned my machine from several sources. Luckily I have WinXP to do all this. I also have...

Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of 1 minute doing nothing! Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going. These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even doing...

How to make the new actually used websites, for a.o. online banking, work using win98se These days most (all ?) official websites require a minimal browser version unavailable for98SE , even +kernelEx. Can't accept this is impossible and so be convicted to a continued nerve wrenching struggle...

Got into trouble in trying some W98 utilities. Apparently one of them was a NT type app. In a very reliable W98SE computer, I ran an executable, the machine then rebooted and now gives a DOS screen: ======== file is missing or corrupted; c:\windows\himem.sys there is an error in line 1 of...

So Verizon DSL is getting cheap and it's clear IMO that my current ISP (erols/rcn/starpower in Baltimore) is never going to have highspeed. Verizon sent me the kit and started billing me yesterday**, but not until I was on the last page of the Quick Start instructions and 2/3rds of the way through...

Why am I seeing over 300 duplicated posts in this NG!? It seems the first post in many threads are showing the initial post TWICE. In some case, entire thread segments are duplicated. My inclination is to reset the NG. But I must go now-- no time to even investigate! The posts are identical, but...

Brian Livingston at Windows Secrets wrote: We usually skip publication on any 5th Thursdays that come around (such as May 29), but serious problems involving Service Pack 3 for Windows XP have made us work overtime to bring you today's special report. http://windowssecrets.com/comp/080529

FIRST I appologized for the oversized post, having said that: I have read and applied the various 'fixes' for problems associated with the newer updates, such as no link, no new, no ability to use update site , etcetterras.. via manual fixes, such as re-registering the files, etc. I have tracked...

Excuse the cross post, however, Windows 9X is just as vulnerable, if not more, than using outdated applications in other OSs. A basic explanation is found he http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5473&tag=nl.e539 I suggest following the linked materials, and further research into the various...

In W98, no sounds. In the Sounds dialog, the arrow for testing Sounds events is grayed out. I figured it was a driver problem. In Device Manager, it says PCI Multimedia Audio Device. I double click on that and it says "drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) To reinstall drivers for...

My husband has Win 98 and had AVG (free) anti-virus in it, but had the old (7.1) version. We've been trying to download their current version (7.5) and twice it got almost finished (takes a LONG time, he has dial-up) and there was a problem and it quit. Does anyone know if perhaps that version...

Does anybody else have problems in IE with this site? It seems to crash IE on my computer (but works fine in Firefox): http://www.webmd.com

I was wondering if the experts thought it was worth paying for Adaware SE paid version if one already has the free version along with Spybot -- Search and Destroy, Spysweeper by Webroot, and SpywareBlaster. It is this way in my case and I would appreciate any information that you can give me. ...

Hello all, I just created a 5 GByte bootable FAT32 partition and formatted it using the /s option (to transfer the systemfiles to it). However, when I than restart there just is a delay of about 10 seconds, after which it reboots. The odd thing is that booting from a FAT16 thumbdrive and than...

Hello tech gurus: I just reinstalled all the SW in my Win98se PC from scratch and had it working perfectly. Then I installed a new Belkin NIC in a PCI slot. Immediately after doing this, I could no longer boot properly. The PC would only let me boot into Safe Mode. I tried the following, but...

hello everyone, I was considering the idea of upgrading my current computer from windows 98 to windows 2000. The reason why is because I want to hook my desktop up to wireless broadband, but that is not compatible with windows 98. I spoke to the retailer at Cricket and he told me that I would...

(I've included a '98 'group.) On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 13:29:38, Mark Lloyd wrote: IIRC, there were some difference related to USB support in 95 (as opposed to 98/SE/ME). Indeed. '95 just about had _some_ USB support (and I'm not even sure if that had to be added from a...