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In article , says... Back up his files regardless of what you do. Sometimes you have to reload Windows and sometimes things will work OK without doing it. Give it a shot and see what happens. Personally, I'd take the opportunity to...

Whenever I try to access My Computer from the icon on my desktop, or when I try to get to Control Panel from the Start button, I receive the following error message: EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module unknown at 0000:07c7fc6e. Registers: EAX=0045bcb4 CS=017f EIP=07c7fc6e...

I have two computers that have run out of HDD space, and I need to transfer the data to larger drives. One currently uses Win95 and the other Win98. I want to upgrade them both to the more universally compatible Win98se when I transfer the data. (I'm not prepared to move up to XP.) I was told...

Wehn i bot up my computer it goes through the ram test then to the windows page and then to a black screen with the following message" CANNOT FIND SYSTEM.INI. You need to run windows setup again to install the file Press any key to continue" When i press a key the computer just turns off

Here is a the link for future refernce http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=95219&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us -- Windows98 links to solutions http://jake98.no-ip.info Replies in the same thread please Regards Jake

We have windows 98 second edition that recently has some issues. We got the computer running and working again, however, when we are in safe mode, the mouse is not found. We have tried re-installing the mouse and everything else possible. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Would any issues arise if a machine running Win 98 were to be upgraded to Win 98SE (using the Win98 Second Edition Updates disk) after application of the patches on the February/04 security update disk? Would it be a simple case of answering 'no' whenever a windows pops up asking about...

toshiba laptop crash, used rescue disc to 95 os now need 98 and the cd's I have will not load but have in the past. Help so I can use the laptop for the therapy I need.

I recently had to reformat my hardrive and reinstall my original programs. When I boot my computer it stops loading with an error message screen containing the following information: Line 218, Char 2, 'SSdiv' is undefined, Code 0,...

In the Widows directory, change all of the *.ini to *.in1 (so that they can be changed back if problems occur) and *.exe to *.ini (so thay they can be changed back if problems occur). You should then be able to "fool" Windows into installing the upgrade without installing from scratch. Hope this...

It just depends on what soud card you have, and whether you're prepared to open up your PC and have a quick look. Post back if you are (or already have) -----Original Message----- I recently had windows 98 upgraded to windows 98 2nd edition but have lost my sound driver - no sound, any ideas...

Click start-settings-control panel, double click System, click 'device manager' tab and see if any little icons have a yellow circle with a black '!' in. if not, boot to DOS (press F8 when 'starting windows 98' appears just after your pc turns on) and run scanreg. -----Original Message----- i...

I would go to the HP website. -----Original Message----- I have an old laptop that I want to install WIN98 on. It has no CD and I have an HP 7200external Parallel CDR drive I want to use. How can I get the laptop to see the drive so I use the installation CD for WIN98?

Automatic win98 installs I trying to use batch98 to make an msbatch.inf to install win98se. The everything is hands free past copying Win98 files. However, after setup re-boot comes "loading win98 for the first time" and the following 3 steps still require mouse/keyboard input. a) ok user /company...

Have you tried removing and reinstalling the driver and if you have "plug and play " it should do it automaticly

i need help on how to setup a password so that another person cannot log onto the computer at all. Also so that when click on cancel it wont log onto the computer at all.

After getting "General protection fault in explorer.exe module" problems stopping me boot up, I decided to reinstall Win98 using start-up disk and CD version of Windows. Now the installation procedure hangs during the system scan stage. I've got AMD k-6 450 processor on T17VG+ main board with ATI...

hi all, i have 2 computers running windows 98 Se, in the first computer i have a printer hp 710c installed e working ok, i had worked in the first computer with other printer ( epson stylus 740 ) was working ok... but now when a send a job for the 1 computer a receive a message in the secund...

I have a problem that when i open explorer, my computer (windows systems?) my pc crashes. I am running windows 98 with all updates. I have not loaded any new software etc so am at a loss. Any ideas?