I have been given a computer that has Brazilian version of Win98 SE. It had IE 5 on it and I installed IR 6 from the American site. I did not test this before, so I am not sure it is related, but i am having trouble reaching windows update. i have tried reaching both the American and the Brazilian...

A problem recently developed with "Save As" dialog boxes: the directories appear in reverse chronological order, not alphabetical order. I know how to get them back into alphabetical order (by clicking on the "details" button, then on the name column heading, but it doesn't stick. Next time I open...

I have been playing around with a Windows 98 machine and recently installed a NIC card. Now every time I boot an MS Dos window pops up on the screen and will not go away. The first window is a REDIR31 and then it goes to and RPCSR window that stays open during the entire session. Another...

I've got a 250 GB IDE HDD formatted with one primary DOS partition under FAT32 to 128 GB (more or less). This is not my C: drive, it's actually the third physical hard drive in my system; it's an add-on for extra storage. This drive is connected via a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 PCI controller card. On...

This error keep windows from running, could not resolve with KB info articles so I formatted new hard drive, reinstalled windows, ran factory restore disk, still same problem. windows will not boot in any mode. knowedge Base info no help. help would be appreciated. you can email to...

On my HP Pavilion 6465 PC that uses Win98 First Edition the "Splash Screen" of Adobe Acrobat Readetr 5.0.1 remains dormant for an annoying 62 seconds before the program loads it's APIs and dlls. On my wife's generic PC that uses Win98 Second Edition the dormant period of the "Splasc Screen" for...

I have been doing a cold boot each morning for many years, so am used to seeing something new each day at times. My Western Digital 15 GB hard drive is about 5 years old, used 8/24 in those years. My AV and antispyware regularly show my hard drive is clean. I use Firefox, Thunderbird, OE...

Can anyone help me? I get "Explorer.exe caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe at 018F: 00401F31" when I bootup pc. I have tried putting drive in two other pcs as slave drives and could not see hard drive. Put the drive back into original pc and still get the error. I cannot start safe...

I just did a very clean install of win98. It worked fine for half a day but now I get an explorer error message very quickly on the boot which says illegal operation with details "Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe @015f:00401f31" The Toshiba laptop 2655x will not boot...

I think I have a C drive that's going south on one of my computers and want to keep all my old Outlook express messages including e-mail and newsgroups, and various folders within OE that I've created. If I copy the .dbx files and paste them into the appropriate place on a reinstalled version of...

From time to time, my Win98SE system decides to refresh all 57 desktop icons. This started months ago. Any suggestions how to cure it?

When I try to start my computer I get the following message VMM32.VXD is required to run Windows. If this file is not in your PATH, you may need to reinstall windows. I have used a copy of this file on disk and copied it to C:\Windows but the problem still remains. I do not wish to reinstall...

I'm using Windows 98 and the photos (e.g. displayed on ebay or hotmail) don't appear clearly, they appear with a lot of dots through the photo. Can anyone suggest anything to help?

error message at boot boils down to dfs.vxd file is missing. Read the Microsoft article on this. I know HOW to extract one file, and where to GET it from. Where do I extract it to ? System,system32, and shell folders all were tried to no avail. Help ?

My husband has Win 98, and just now found the task bar apparently got dragged to the right side (up and down) instead of across the bottom. I tried to drag it back, but it only moved across the screen to the left. How can we get it back to the bottom? Thanks for any help, and Happy New Year to...

Hi folks I am unable to see microsoft vitual labs session on msdn web site . I have downloaded Ie 6.0 with SP1 ans all teh latest security updates . My operating system is Windows ME and whenever i try to access the virtual labs session it tells me to download the Active X Vitual Machine client...

I have an OEM running 98 SE. I picked up an old computer at an auction, removed the hard dive and installed it in my 98 system as a primary slave, booted the system and it went through the POST but before getting to the WIN logo screen I got just a black screen with a blinking short white...

this is URGENT, so your help is highly appreciated. thanks. :lol: :lol: when i start the computer and and the computer was hang and show a message "Error loading Explorer.exe", and told me the file "Msvcrt.dll" was damaged or loss. then, the computer was hang and i cannot further do anything in...

The open or save or save as dialogue window which opens when saving or opening program options has several options for the icon order arrangement the files and folders are displayed in the dialogue window: file size, name, file type, Date. When I open the dialogue window the default is always...

I get a work offline popup window which is very annoying, I can't seem to figure out what prompts it as it happens at random times, if I am online or offline, typing or just looking at my screen wehther I am using a program or not it just seems to pop up at least once or twice a session. How can...