Have 4-5 year old compaq laptop and ran into many strange issues due to virus and spy ware. As a last ditch effort, had a brilliant idea to run the Emerency Recovery Disk. Now I'm receiving the error message "Operating System Not Found" upon start-up. I have since read further and learned that I...

My system has two physically identical hard drives, C and D, plus a CDROM designated E:. I formatted C and did a clean install of 98SE. However, for some reason it created a new hard drive named E: and labelled the CDROM as F: C: is ok and contains Windows and the programs. D: shows as a zero byte...

i am tring to Install the cd it give a errorit read this error14x20x0xtricode default ?

Hi all, A small church came to me to setup 4 computers with Windows 98 SE on them. They had four OEM packs, one for each computer. I opened one of them and installed it on all four computers using the same KEY ID number since I thought that if they had four COA's that the legal letter of the law...

Help? How to enable simultanious support for English and Hindi Language in Windows-98? Where to find Hindi fonts? How to select keyboard? How to enter text in Hindi? How to switch back to English? How to trigger this in other third party software? thanks

I re-installed Windows 98 two months ago and the system was working fine until one week ago. When I tried to turn on the pc, it did not go thru its normal progressions. In other words, its was not booting up. It just had a blinking cursur underneath the text as follows; Award Modular Bios v4,51pg,...

While trying to reinstall Windows98se, the setup program gets to the "Updating System Settings" with 4 minutes to go and it just hangs there. I've tried 3 time and get the exact same results. Can anyone help me?

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Hi, I've been running Windows98 SE for about 5 years fairly problem free but just recently my PC is hanging whether I am using it or not. CRTL ALT DEL does nothing and I have to turn it off completely and reboot. How can I find out what is causing it and fix it. I don't have any bugs on the...

I have Windows98 Second Edition and need to reboot my computer back to factory specs. Can someone help explain the procedure?

I have a Windows 98 computer that defaults to online at start-up. I am not able to open "My Computer" unless my ISP is open. I can remove the check mark for operating on- line and everything is fine until I shut down and at start-up it defaults back to operating on-line. How can I remove the...

I trying to reinstall Win98, but when it gets to the part about "Loading system files for setup" or something of that nature it just stays there. It is also still in dos mode. Pleasssssse help. What am I doing wrong?

My applications are missing (deleted?) from Start - Programs. All that is there is a game that my step-son installed. How do I put these links back into the Program option?

I have just reformatted my PC and reinstalled Windows 98 SE. Now getting 'A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C16C97CB in VXD EMU10K1(01) + 000B71B' message. Any ideas where I have gone wrong or what is not working/installed properly to cause this. I have no sound on the PC either? Regards,...

Should DMA assignments survive reboot? My new Pentium 4 is still behaving flakily: 1. Modem problems now cured (I hope) by new software modem; 2. BIOS and/or power supply and/or front panel On/Off switch are all suspect because PC sometimes fails to reboot until power at back panel turned...

In command prompt mode, my USB keyboard and mouse are not recognized. (They used to be before I reinstalled WIN 98-SE). Ay suggestions would be welcome.

Try to start up the computer , the error message I get is "initializing device pgcpc windows protection error". I can start the computer in the safe mode. What is wrong with the computer??

What I want to do is to have a choice to boot with my original Win98 configuration, and also a "Plain Vanilla" Win98 configuration for testing software/hardware combinations. I tried installing a second Windows to a different directory, but now cannot run the original configuration. All I can...

The ProductKey may typically be found on the Windows user manual, the certificate of authenticity, a sticker on the PC or a sticker on the sleeve or jewel case the Windows CD came in. If the you can boot to either safe or normal mode: Open regedit.exe to this key and look in the right pane for...

I just installed 98SE over itself in hopes of curing a network problem. It completed normally. Now it won't boot. Just starts out with some error messages that some aps are being shut down for illegal operation - spool32 and Msgsrv32. Then that MSPWL32 won't start, then the blueish green screen of...