Where do I tell Win98SE to not open a new window every time I navigate to a different folder? Thanks.

After a brief flirtation with Kazaa, now suddenly random words on the net show up as blue "links". I've uninstalled Kazaa, used Kazaabegone, Adaware, but this is still ocurring. Any idea how to get rid of it? Thanks.

Hi - My internal floppy drive failed so I replaced it with an external drive (USB) I changed my BIOS to have "ATAPI CD-ROM Drive" as my first boot selection. I have my original start-up floppy that I got with my Win.98SE and know I can make floppies from - settings-ad remove etc. If I crash my USB...

Hi: I hope somebody can help, I have an old Compaq laptop that is ready to die, but I need to grab a few files from it. Everytime I try to boot, it drops into Registry Checker, tells me a good registry has been restored, and asks for restart, but on restart it keeps dropping back into Registry...

Is it possible to copy psapi.dll from some XP machine, to my win98 system directory and gain support which usually missed in win98? Thanks Gimi

In folder right-click mouse, will popup a menu. I dont know why today lose(miss) two import item in popup menu. a, "send to-- desktop shortcut" item is lose. b. "new -- folder, text file, ......" item is lose. I check disk two folder is there. but why miss in menu?

Greetings; My brother has a Gateway computer many years old which has win98 installed and is not capable of USB 2.0 for an external backup disk. I have a win98se CD. Am I able to upgrade his machine to win98se from this CD? If so, how? and are there any special things I need to know in order...

Hi all, I have a win98se machine, ASUS P5A-B motherboard, 450mhz K6-2 chip, 107 PCI/AGP Blade vid card, and this problem has been there since first building this box. It seems I did a registry hack to reverse the diplay setting, but now can't remember exactly what I was told so many years...

by mistaken i change excel properties to notepad. by right clicking on it i am able to open it with this option:open using microsoft excel for windows but the icon displayed for excel sheet is same as that for notepad. so pls help to change the icon of notepad to excel

by mistaken i change excel properties to notepad. by right clicking on it i am able to open it with this option:open using microsoft excel for windows but the icon displayed for excel sheet is same as that for notepad. so pls help to change the icon of notepad to excel

Hi, I'm trying to setup a Dell Optiplex GX520, to multi-boot Windows98, 2000, XP pro. I found the knowledgebase entry on microsoft's website, for setting this up. I made 3 partitions. First one is FAT32, and the other two are NTFS. When I try to install the first OS(Win98) on the first partition,...

Mediamon wrote: Hi. I just posted this to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq. Now I am finding other newsgroups that this topic is appropriate. But not sure how to forward original post to other related newsgroups without crossposting. Cross posting is in fact the best...

I uninstalled gozilla and it messed up the registry. It deleted the COMMAND folder and scanreg.. I finally ran registry repair from 98se C.D Windows now boots then goes to dos and has a C: prompt. What do I type at the prompt to get windows to finally start? Thanks in advance for your help.

First, let me give some background to the computer I am currently working on. The computer is my brother's. He first encountered problems when Windows 98 would not always boot up all of the way. Sometimes it would get halfway and just freeze, sometimes it would get halfway and restart itself, and...

Hi, I want to chance my win98 setup. I want to make sure, that you have to log in befor you are able to work with windows. How do I do that? Roar

Is there a way to limit the amount of memory that a Win98 DOS diskette will attempt to access? I'd like to restrict it to 1GB or less on a 2GB box. -- Thanks in advance, Les Caudle

My dad's been given this Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT laptop with Windows 98 on it. It has 80 meg ram, a 4 gig drive and unspecified processor speed. It serves internet use well, only a bit slower than my almost current laptop. About the equivalent of a side-and-a-half of letter-sized paper into...

How can I control RealPlayer, on occasions when my machine is running slow and I check task manager i can find 10 or more copies of RealPlayer have loaded in the background. ?

Hi all, Recently I am unable to startup window in normal mode. I can only start up in SAFE MODE. Please advice how to solve this problem. Thank you much. Francis

I installed a game called Thomas The Train Trouble on the Tracks, and after that I have not been able to get windows to start. I log in, and then get a blank screen with the above error msg. I have re-installed Windows 98 TWICE, and also tried to replace some of the .dll files with newer...