went to restore my dads windows 98 and its asking for a product key . is there a master key i can use

Hi there, I just set up a second user account and was able to personalize this new desktop accordingly (ie. for each account differently). However, Outlook Express displays BOTH the same entries at all the folders and also its address book is identical as in the original account! The same applied...

I purchased windows 98 2nd. edition to update windows 98. I recieved no instructions on how to install it. Windows has no info on thier web site about this. Zero!!!!!

Spent ten bucks (yard sale) on a beautiful old Thinkpad 755CX running W95 and NT. Would like to give it CDROM capability using a 4x4x6 burner that's on hand. In order to run the burner, UBS is required. I have a PCMCIA-USB card available but understand that USB will not run on pre-W98 OS's. Am I...

It's w/98SE. Can I hide the MSIE icon on the desktop ? -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m

Hi I know this is off topic, but i caouldnt get an answer from win95 group. Where can I download this file from? TIA J Carey

My laptop has gone into MS-DOS mode. I have lost my Product floppy Disc and Product ID number. How can I switch back to my Windows 98 applications? (I did install two(2) programs; one is P_Spice and the other is Derive. the former caused the laptop to go into MS-DOS mode from which it seems to...

im installing windows 98 japanese in a DELL PC with Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz PC, after all the setup files has been copied and the computer restarts.. it shows an error.. i can't really understand the error cause its written in japanese. the only words taht i can understand is NDIS and WINDOWS.. i've...

Just re-installed W98 after a rather nasty worm/virus/something ate half of my OS. Going through the process of re-installing all of my software and whatnot, and now, I'm getting this problem (that yellow exc. point thing) with the "PCI Serial Controller" in the Device Manager settings - does this...

OP 98, My computer will not start. I ran the Set Utility I found the following (Onboard) USB CONTROLLER IRQ 11 (Slot 4) Other Communication Devive IRQ 11, (On Board) SMBus IRQ 3, (OnBoard)VGA Controller IRQ 3 and (Onboard) Audio Device IRQ3. How will I change this values to the correct values and...

I believe i have deleted a couple of file's called Explorer.exe and something called MSVCRT.DLL. Because when i turn on my computer it will go through all the normall rutiens but then it would come up with error finding: Explorer.exe. I click the ok button then it comes up with the file MSVCRT.DLL...

Hi, I downloaded window98 SE from MSDN subscription and I'm trying to install it on my newly formated hard drive from DOS, but with no success; When I type "setup" or "win98\setup" or ..... I keep getting the error: "bad command" or "This command cannot run in DOS mode" I used the command "Dir"...

I have a dell with win98 2nd edition. For no apparent reason, it suddenly would not load past the initial blue/cloud windows 98 strart screen. I tried re-loading win 98 and everything appeared ok but I can't get past the Win98 starting for the first time screen. Is there anything I can do or must I...

I have a computer with windows NT installed. Want to install windows 98 se. Re-formated hard drive, then tried re-installing 98 se from cd form. Comes up with missing system files (.dll). What is the best way to install 98 se on a formated hard drive?

Hello, Whenever I bootup the computer, I get the following error message: "Error Starting Program: A required DLL file, DMIAPI32.DLL was not found" I have used Windows Update and installed all the critical updates, but to no avail.

not sure how I did this? IS there a way to reset the key mapping? THANKS!

I have a computer it was locking up then a error came on after locating hard drive and cd drive that say's COMOS CHECKSUM ERROR defaults loaded then it say's press F1 to go to setup nothing happens no matter what I try can you help. Thank you tom -- tom i am

I bought my system from Gateway in 98. It came loaded with 95 and they upgraded for free to 98. They gave me the disk but no product key. I had a fatal error and had to reboot. Its mostly so my 4 year old can play games. With no product key, i'm dead. I do have the original 95 disk and key,...

I UPGRADED MY SYSTEM TO: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1549123,00.asp Processor Pentium 4 3.0 (retail box) Motherboard MSI PT880 Neo Memory 512MB PC3200 Hard Drive Western Digital WD800JB $61 Graphics ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB $204 and am trying to load win98 so I can use an upgrade CD...

I continually recieve the following 2 messages: 1. RUNDLL Error loading EGDHTML_1030.dll The system cannot find the file specified (recieve message prior to signing on) 2. PCSVC caused an invalid page fault in module unknown (recieve immediately after signing on)