My brother's system crashed, so. . .my other brother wiped out the hard drive. I now have the pleasure of fixing their mess. I have been working on this for almost a week, and everything I try works up to the point of setup of Windows 98 version 2. When I get to this point the *#%! system gives...

I've decided to go from windows xp back to windows 98. I reformated, and repartitioned for FAT32 and am running the setup. But when i run the scan it says "windows setup requires 734" what does that mean and how can i fix it?

Windows Update has foiled my system. For some reason the installation failed and after restarting the computer, I was only greeted by a black screen with no cursor. I decided that I might as well reinstall 98SE again from a boot disk, and now that's getting hung up at the last step with a fatal...

Is there a method to repair/reinstall W98 files without having to reconfigure the entire computer?

I am trying to free up some space on my laptop. Can you tell me what the subject file is and if I need it?

I have a Gateway 2000 purchased on '97. Originally, the computer had Windows 95, and later someone installed Windows 98 SE Upgrade. Now, I need to reformat my computer, so I need help in the procedure. Some people tell me to just intall Win 98 and others say to install Win 95 first. I need step...

I AM TRYING TO SETUP MY WIN 98 SE, but it always says: Standard Mode: Fault in MS-DOS Extender. what does this mean? what shall i do? can anybody help me?

hi all, trying to setup an old machine, I inherited it, it's got an older socket7 ASUS P5A-B motherboard, I upgraded the bios to 1010, (the latest for it) and installed win98se. It worked okay for a while, but just let it sitting and it eventually died - black screen, wouldn't reboot. Let it...

after reinstalling windows 98se on a compaq laptop that i had it on previously (and ran into this problem before i just didnt think to write it down) i get the error message 'Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer .. C:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd: missing/unable to load.' Any...

hi, i have windows 98 and i had to re install my hewlett packard programs and now the screen pops up with product key #...i have a certificate of authenticity but it has a product id#.not key?..can anyone help me please:):):):

Hi, when I shutdown my PC, it freezes at the final screen that says windows 98, it is now safe to turn off your monitor. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks

I got a PC from the HSN...Proteva. I took off the back-up by misstake. Now to reinstall Window 98 it wants me to give my windows 98 ID....I've tried everything. This is above the bar code is CMP-13457...below is Proteva Custom 98 PC with W02239-6130-064-100-HSN 29-10-80. What am I to do? Any help...

Hello, I'm Janie Strifler. Sold my AST 9316 Computer for a five year old. The adults pluged it all in. All they see is first a black screen with a C:\prompt then they see the Window 98 Logo screen then it goes back to the black screen with C:\prompt. This won't allow them to do anything else with...

When i boot W98SE it reports a "Missing Shortcut" WPWIZ.EXE and starts to browse for the file. How do I find the reference to this shortcut in order to remove it so that Windows doesn't do this? I have examined the properties of desktop shortcuts and can't find any that reference a file...

Hello my name is Janie Strifler. I sold my old computer which is an AST 9316. The adults pluged it all in and all they've been getting is a black screen with a C:\. Then they see the Windows 98 logo then a black screen with the same prompt. They can't do anything else with the computer. What are...

I'm installing 98se on a computer. My CD keys do not work and I cannot access MS help without a 98se PID. I tried using my XP PID but it's OEM so MS won't accept it. How can I get around this and get a valid CD key from MS?

ý have installed 98se (english) and i setup pan european lang support for turkish , configured for turkish keyboard but the some of the turkish characters are viewing wrongly, on ms word i can write perfectly but in "run" command text box some turkish characters are wrong again so what can be the...

I have no need to protect my computer with a login password, and once figured out how to bypass this process altogether. But I can't figure out how to do it again. Cansomeone remind me? I also have the same question for Win XP.

When I tried to install hotfix 823559 on W98 SE and have subsequently received the follwoing problems: 1) Windows update notifies me on each boot up that there are updates. Then lists that same hotfix as required. Apparently, Windows doesn't recognize that it is already installed (it shows up in...

Hi I have Windows 98, and when I start my computer it loads up and then it comes to the Destop and the username password comes up and another window comes up and it says "Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128D Driver cannot load MIDI waveset.MIDI playback has been diabled." So I guessing I have to reinstall...