WOW all of the replies seem so technical and I am afraid to screw up something major on my p/c as I have been known to remove things that I never should have..LOL even with the norton and the zonealarm, I recvd a virus and had to have win98 reloaded to clean. maybe I should have someone walk me...

TO model or the hardware was added after purchase there is a free utility TO called Everest Home Edition that can scan your system and give you detailed Speaking of Everest, has anyone else had problems when running Everest Home Edition, Sensor option, it causes the voltage and fan monitor...

I just reinstalled win 98se and I am missing some drivers, but I don't know what they are....what is a 'PCI ATM Controller and PCI Communication Device?' I also don not have sound even after installing correct driver. Any help out there?

When running Norton Antivirus in the safe mode of this system running Win 98se there is a Fatal Exception error at 0E:C00078C0 in VxD VMM(01)+ 000068C0 when we are testing the \Windows\Options\Cabs file. When NAV is run in normal mode there are no errors. How do I track down the offendign culprit? ...

In the close program window after pressing ctrl,alt, delete, how do I know which programs I can close or not close, and how do I make them stay closed?

i right click on my computer properties it says i have windows 98 second edition but whene i click on the start menu the text that supposed says windows 98 second edition just says windows 98

After starting up when I click on any program to open I find a black screen pops up behind and disappear very quickly and computer does not do any thing and remains in same state as it was before clicking. I captured the black screen the title of the screen is...

I just got a computer from someone and when I click on start the Log Off selection has their name on it. Is there any way to remove or change that name?? Thanks

I have W98 se and thought that I had a security with one of my passwords at a website. So I did something in settings to change passwords. Somehow my computer thought that there was more than one user. There is not. Well it not only cleared my cookies and passwords , but in Outlook Express somehow...

I subscribed to this newsgroup but when I try to write message and send, I get "No sender was specified. Please check your News Account configuration. What does this mean? I have to go back to the web site to send, I can't do it from OE

During boot up, I get four C prompts underneath each other, instead of one. Any idea how to get back to one?

when you go to newsgroup, and read the postings, how do you see all of them? i clicked on get next headers but i didnt see any new ones...

I upgraded a compaq notebook 1687 from win98 to win98SE. I then installed Linksys wireless adapter. At next reboot I get "Explorer generated illegal operation and will close". Clicking on details shows a page fault in module xxxx (i didn't write it down). So far I have: 1 extracted explorer.exe...

Hi, My kids PC won't boot using 98SE, and it seems to be because these two files (at least) are missing :-( I'm trying to get the beast going to grab some files before using the vendor-supplied recovery CDs to zap the disk - there doesn't seem to be an option to reinstall or repair the OS without...

keys not corresponding to key print symbols e.g " @ transposed how do i solve this please

My desktop computer screen on startup appears to startup normally only to end up at a Windows 98 Setup screen each time. How do I get out of this? In safe mode this screen does not appear but I need to run in normal mode in order to use my CD-Rom drive. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. ...

I understand how to disable items in the startup tab using Msconfig, but in order to reduce the clutter (if allowed) how do I remove selected items permanently?

Can someone pls tell me some ways to speed up my system? win98, hsi cble, pent2 and thats all I know. I have a feeling there are a lot of files that I do not need. My friend deleted her Norton and her system doubled its speed and she uses dial up...I dont want to risk viruses??I am confused and...

Hi there, my friend seems to have following problem: "My computer is messed up,,,,,,,,,,I dont think it has anything to do with coneection.......Ive been trying to get my Norton to come up and the damn box pops up but it is blank........i compaqed all files while off line,,,,,,,and did disk...

Hi, been reading a few posts,on other newsgroups, and realize I made a similar mistake to others. I did a quick restore on our old compaq to give to my sister, but I think it went beyond factory, it seems to have completely erased everything. It is telling me that there is no operating system,...