I have a friend who is using WinXP. In his windows, when he opens a window and wants to minimize it, he can do this just by pressing Esc, but me, on my computer have to press the minimize button using my mouse. How can I set my windows to minimize the windows with a keyboard key? Javad IRAN

I have a delightfully garbled problem: Windows 98 sees a non-existing partition! MY SYSTEM Tosh laptop, Win98 FE + Linux + NetBSD on 19GB HD, partitions as follows: C: /dev/hda1 Primary 2900MB Windows 98 + apps D: /dev/hda2 Primary 50MB DOS (bootable with some tricks, FAT16)

I suggest that when we want to reply a message, we delete the text of the main message and write our reply in a clean page. Javad IRAN

backing up to a usb memory stick from a batch file. would like to echo a message that tells user it is now safe to remove the usb device however, in win98 we have to eject usb devices before removing them. anyone know how to (if possible) to send a command that would "eject" the device? thanks

Do anybody know how I can install multiple copies of a same OS on a computer? For example I want to install two seperate copies of Win Me on my computer. How is it possible? Thanks Javad

I can't dial the internet on my laptop. I've gone through the trouble shooter and nothing comes up wrong. Control Panel - Pcmcia lists the card correctly. Control Panel - Modems lists it correctly and detects it as attached to COM2, interrupt 3 2F8. Diagnostics Driver lists comm.drv altho I...

My system is running Win98SE. When I try to "Shut Down", it does a "Restart" instead. "Disable fast shutdown" is already selected. Anyone know how to fix this?

Ok I have a icon maker file on my computer and when I try to open it it has this error: "A required .DLL file, MSVBVM60.DLL, was not found." My OS is win98 SE. -- Need a FREE Anti-Virus Software GO TO: www.avast.com

I would like to install the following: System Properties = Device Manager = System devices = "Advanced Power Management support" Anyone know how? My system consists of the following:

I don't know the reason, but you should use a bootable floppy or CD to be able to install a new copy of your OS. Javad "bgosper" wrote in message ... ALl of a sudden I am getting this message--no idea what...

This problem statrted outof no where. The computer froze, then when rebooted I got this message. I tried using my Windows startup floppy and do a SYS C--no help. Scandisk says no problems found. Also, I put in my Windows disk alone and it of course brings me to the windows install/setup screen and...

I made the mistake of putting a password where I didn't need or want one - starting the system. How on earth can can I remove it? If I try to replace it with just a CR, the system demands that I enter an actual password. And, as a matter of fact, since I tried it the old one doesn't even...

Well just now when I tried to post a question it just had this error again. And it about Internet explorer. First my pc info: OS's Win98 SE Win 2000 Pro. 60mb of RAM. 7GB HD 450MHz CPU Well in win 98 It has a Illegle operation thingy and closes Internet explorer. It does it once in a while. Is that...

I set Noptepad as the reader for a file before I knew it was rich text. How can I change it? Jim L, via eCS 1.14 version of OS/2 -- Golly, Senator Bitchandmoan was unseated? SD finally got it.

Thanks to Hewlett-Packard's so-called "tech" so-called "support," my computer is now left unable to install any printer. When I "add printer" from the PRINTERS folder, and the wizard does some file copying, but the newly added printer does not appear in the PRINTERS folder, but rather in the...

My system.dat had grown to over 9 Meg. and when I tried scanreg/fix it stalled at System.dat showing 0 to 1%. I have cleaned up my registry so that system.dat is at 7.4 Meg yet scanreg/fix stalls at 0 - 1%. If you exceed 8 Meg or so is it broken permanently? HOw can I get Scanreg/fix to work...

Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E that won't startup. I get an error message that reads "While initializing device VKD" and that is as far as it goes. I recently installed a wireless card, and it was working okay and then this happened. Also, the battery is being drained instead of being charged by...

Running on Windows98 second edition. For some reason, when I use explorer my files are continuing to be displayed as large icons. How can I make all my files appear as "list" or "details". What is the switch that is making the large icons appear. How do I change this? tia

How do you put a Java plugin into Mozilla without an internet connection. I'm guessing copying a DLL file somewhere, but... Jim L -- Should the Americans have left the Germans in France? Parley vous Deutsch?

I have two hd's(C: and D:) C: came with my Dell PII and D: is newer and bigger. I had BootitNG make a new 5GB partition on the D: drive(which has some data on it, in other partitions, already). My question is, when I am in DOS and the prompt is F:(new partition) and I run setup on my Windows 98...