If my win98 computer sits idle for a time, multiple (dozens) of instances of iexplore launch. This obviously utilizes all of the resources, and the only way to escape this problem is to hard boot. I have Adaware and Spybot and run them often. Any ideas as to what is happening and what can be...

Spybot has found DyFuCA.Internet Optimizer on my system. After being removed by Spybot several times, it still comes back. Is there a permanent solution? Operating System Windows 98 SE (4.10.1034.2222) Internet Explorer 6.00.2800.1106 MSN Client 9.10.0009.2900 Default E-mail Program MSN...

With a Windows 98 machine, is there any way to determine what make/model/version motherboard the PC has? Not the BIOS version, but the motherboard itself. I took the cover off the PC, but couldn't see any manufacturer information easily. I tried to watch the BIOS as it booted up and it went by...

Very true, when will people ever learn. sigh "Terry" wrote in message ... On 1/7/2005 9:12 AM On a whim, Richard Urban pounded out on the keyboard Seeing as how so many have switched to Firefox (including myself)...

This may not be the right newsgroup to bring up the problem, but here goes! My program will produce satisfactory sound out of radio sations, videos, etc. but no sound when playing a CD. On the other hand, Microsoft Media and other programs on my computer will produce excellent sound. I contacted...

The HD has no jumper (according to the info, its slave setting) and upon boot up,its says pri master nil and yet able to load w98se and pc performs well. In the bios it has the pri ide controller disable. Any explanation pls?

MVP's et.al.; I am finding that I need to reboot more often with AVG Free (Dec 9/04) than I did with AVG 6/7. It seems that my buffers require purging after 3-4 hours of googling or site-hopping in order to keep site access~ page u/l~ d/l times reasonable. With AVG7, I only did this once or twice...

Thanks for your persistence :) "Zip Central" is a doozie, and as comfortable as my pipe and slippers. Wishing you a healthy New Year. Rod

I hope someone can help me. As you can see in my profile I own three computers. Each one has a different version of Windows. I designed a VB6 application with a rich text box control and compiled it using the Package and Deployment wizard. This was done on my Windows XP computer. Once I...

I have been told to open a zip file with winzip.Windows 98se installed, but I cannot find "winzip" What to do? -- mcgiv

Sometime back, someone posted a link to software that would allow the Windows 2000 color scheme to be added to the appearance tab/scheme of the control panel/display of Windows 98. I recently upgraded to Windows 98 SE and lost that ability. Anyone remember what that link was and provide same? TIA

I was downloading The Sims 2 and everything was going smoothly until an error message popped up saying "Failed to find DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a Direct X 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and the latest drivers provided by...

I was trying to clean up my computer and I think I have inadvertently uninstalled or killed my sound.?? I did uninstall some programs and I'm afraid I might have killed the sound to my computer......When I play various video, I now get video only and no sound....Also, just during the...

A month ago I installed a 250 GB hard drive running it off a controller card, and divided up all the partitions. The OS is 98SE on C: which is a 7 GB partition, and a few others, but the Backup partion I have at 135 GB and I noticed Scandisk won't run on it giving the prompt "your computer does...

Yesterday, my Win98 machine started to get really, really weird on me. It's gotten buggy before, given that I'm on a Celeron and have bootleg drivers for my soundcard, but this time... it's beyond even my problem solving skills... Yesterday, without provocation, my computer just randomly stopped...

When I insert a audio cd into cd player I get a message Windows cannot find PROGRAM.exe This program is needed for opening files of type 'AudioCD' Where can I get a copy of this file and where would I install it? Thanks

I purchase a computer (Compaq) several years ago. It came with Win98 installed. My hard drive crashed and I have installed a new one. When I try to re-install Win 98 I get the following message, "Operating system not found on any devices. Press any key to try again." Can anyone help...

hi all some of my icons have turned black does any one know why????

Win98SE System crashed. When it came back up I couldn't access Word, had to put in the disk to get it to recognized it again. had shortcuts missing, dlls missing, all kinds of nasties: but no viruses trojans, hi-jacks, ad ware. System is clean (&cleaned out) Decided to run SFC.

Recently i followed instructions and deleted the advanced power management in device manager.on reboot it was suppose to reinstall and correct shutdown and standby issues. Now my computer goes blue for fatal exception when i try to reload. If i hold down control when the white block is flashing it...