Hi All, Ever since I installed an external CD/DVD drive, my PC takes an age to boot, appearing to hang for a couple of minutes before springing into life. If I disconnect the drive it boots at normal speed again. Is there any way around this? Thanks.

I am trying to understand the exact relationship between the registry as displayed by regedit and system.dat as displayed by a word processor. When I find some field in both, the data which follows after this field doesn't seem the same in both. Where can I find a description or better yet a...

While in the Ports (COM & LPT) of the System Properties I accidently removed "LPT1". Of course the parallel port printer does not work. How do I restore / reinstall "LPT1" to the Ports list in the System Properties?

My wife has a P2, running Win 98 SE, with 458MB of RAM. She uses a Lexmark 6250 series All in One Printer/Copier/Scanner for emailing photos of the grandkids. Everything has been working fine until recently, when the scanner portion of the All In One stopped working. The copier and printer portion...

This is a question about an mp3 file that Windows Media Player could not play. The file was once playable I'm sure, but now Windows Media Player can't play the file format yet it will play all the other mp3 files in the same folder. Is there a reason why this would happen?

This is the second time in as many (weekly) scans that Spybot S&D has come up with this entry: Windows.Explorer: User settings (Registry change, nothing done) HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explo rer\NoLogOff!=W=0 The first time I just let Spybot "take...

OK now MS have finished all support for my much loved 98SE (he says in xp right now) I would like to create a 98SE CD with all the critical updates slipstreamed in and maybe the recommended updates as well but that is not vital, I basically want a CD that will allow me to do a fresh install of...

Recently, my Jasc Paint Shop Pro7, that has worked quite well for some time, suddenly would not work due to a missing file, Data1.msi. Since I had IrfanView, I made my .jpg files open with the latter. Image files of any sort are now identified with the IrfanView icon. For some reason the Pro7...

Hi, I have a 98SE desktop with plenty of RAM, and on a daily basis I have to reboot because it has "Run short of Resources". I am letting Windows handle virtual memory. Is it a Registry problem? Is there a way to free memory after it is/should be released by programs? Thanks D

two things: 1st-- turned on my everyday machine (which had no problems) and after win98 screen, would not load windows. said i needed to reload windows. rebooted, went to safe mode. would not load windows in safe. tried c:\, shows all files still intact. went to windows dir. in c: shows all...

OK I give up! How do I install my old address book to the re- formatted computer, w98sp, OE6 & IE6sp1? TIA.

Hi. Pressing start-programs-accessories-system tools- system information. On line 6 it says 'TCCOMPUTER as bill'. This info is left from a previous owner. How can I change this info? Thanks.

Desktop icons always get shuffled after running safe mode. Not sure if they are re-sorted by date or size or type but neither are preferred. Any way to preserve preferred desktop arrangement? Thanks.

Hello All, I'm not sure if anyone can help me with this, I've been researching for several months and have come up with zilch, but I thought I'd give this a shot. Whenever I turn on my computer (Toshiba Laptop 2535CDS) Win98SE I automatically get a screen that says running Microsoft...

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to password protect files/folders? Thanks

When you click on Start below Programs is the Documents option which then lists the last 10 or 15 documents opened (of any file type). I know how to clear it manually in Settings but is there a way to stop Windows from even compiling this list? I'm running Win ME...yea yea I know I'm a little...

I just installed Win 98 SE on an HP Pavilion 8246. Before installation I jotted down the audio system description: Ensoniq PCI Audio Gave no other description. After fresh install, Win 98 does not recognize this sound system. I went looking for drivers and found this...

How do I suppress the logon screen that appears when I boot up Win98SE? I originally had it when the PC was networked but it isn't at the moment. The second part is how do I get it back at a later stage if I decide to connect it to a network? TIA.

Hi all. I need help to find a solution to a Windows 98 SE Fatal Exception error message that I'm getting after bootup. It gets to the Desktop then the blue screen appears with the following message: "A fatal exception 00 has occurred at 0028:C023D8A3 in VXD VDD(09) + 00001803. The current...

A win98 2nd Ed system was freezing up when several programs were opened so I added more Ram. It had 64Mb; now 320Mb. Then I was going to boot iun safe mode to run scandisk, but when the menu appeared the kb was inactive. If I allowed it to boot normally the kb works. I have a usb kb so I...