Hi all, How can i configure my O.S. Windows 98 SE to ask me every 6 month change the password's login? Thanks Cecilia

I had to do a system restore, and when prompted to enter the product key, I keep getting the "invalid product key" error. I only have 20 characters in my product key, but the computer is asking for 25. Is there a work-around? Thanks

Keep getting this message said run setup again. Did. Same error help

I am attempting to reload Windows 98 onto a re-formatted hard drive. The drive was completely clean upon beginning this endeavor. I reformatted the disk by the following: 1. Insert Windows 98 SE startup disk into floppy. Power up computer 2. go to c: prompt. type "format c:/s" 3. All infomration...

I purchased an old toshiba laptop as second computer. it had w95 in it. I replaced hard drive and installed w98se. Now some of the keys on the keyboard don't match please advice!

Hi, I have a home-built Cel 533 (O/C'd to 600) system with three 4.5GB SCSI drives. The CD also runs off the SCSI bus. At this very moment, a W98SE (full version) is winging its way to me from Winnipeg (via an eBay transaction). It is an OEM version like the original W95b (OSR2). I understand...

I recently purchased a Windows 98 2E CD at a computer market but I've been told that since its an OEM version it may not install over my existing W95 because it expects to find no existing operating system. I was also told that there's a single W95 system file that can be deleted or re-named to...

Hi there! Indeed, I noticed on a Laptop that some characters are mixed up: Examples: "@" appears at key "Q" (Alt Gr) "!" appears at key "1" (upper case) "+" appears at key "!" (lower case) etc., etc.! Hmm, so could perhaps someone give me "the tip" of how to fix it? Thanks a lot in...

Hi there, Here's the story: I bought a homemade athlon 1.8 ghz computer that came with an adaptec hard drive controller with a maxtor 120gb hard drive with windows 2000 professional. I attached a 15gb hard drive from my old sony vaio computer that has win98 on it. I made the win98 hd a slave to...

I recently purchased a second hand laptop (an IBM ThinkPad 380ED) and Windows was completely messed up. It would not let me open Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player. I ran Active@KillDisk to completely wipe out everything on my hard drive. Now that I have done this, it won't let me...

I have an IBM-DTTA 351010 HD set as the Primary Master and a MAXTOR 6E030L0 as the Primary Slave. The System recognizes the MAXTOR while booting, but My Computer or Windows Explorer do not show it once the System is up and running. The jumpers are currently set as shown on the HD, but other...

I've had to reformat the harddisk. Whe I try to install Win98se, it comes to a point where it cann't find any .dll files. The first one I point to C:\windows\system and it is found...all the others say to insert the 98 disk and hit enter. I do that and nothing happens. Please help. I can't...

I'm working on a computer that I put new hardware into. Once I've loaded all the drivers and do a restart, the windows registry checker comes up and I get that it "found an error in your system files and restored a recent backup of the files to fix the problem. Press enter to restart the computer."...

how can i login as system administrator to change control panel settings

At first, Win98 boot disk, following fdisk and format, could not find and load the driver for CDROM. Got some really valid/valued advice from Ben Myers who instructed me to obtain a W95b floppy and boot from it followed by a set of DOS commands. Voila! could now install Win98 from the "R"...

My system is missing some Windows 98SE files. I cannot locate my original Operating System CD. Is there any way to download the files that I need individually? Either the individual DLL or CABS would be acceptable. Please reply to the email address shown. Thank you

When my Windows 98 loads up. it scans through all the drives. then comes up with a message saying "com A Error, Please enter Setup to view Error" but when i enter setup, i cant find wot to do! Please someone help!!!!!!!

Hi all, I had plugged in a different secondary drive on my system in order to check the drive out and on bootup of course my win98se couldn't find a couple of programs referenced to the D: drive.. so I just cancelled out, but on putting my regular drive back in, I got an message asking what...

Where can i download the file explorer.exe for windows 98 second edition?

I accidentally deleted some windows files that are needed to make windows start on my computer. Reads "run setup". I manually deleted because of new HP printer software that would not install properly, was not in add or remove so I manually deleted. And went further to find and deleted more. I...