I have a Gateway 98se system which has only one hard drive. I have installed a 2nd drive as slave so I can read a drivespace compressed file from it and move it to my XP system. After assuring the jumpers are correct (according to mfg specs) the drive letter is not listed in the main directory. ...

In , Basil H. Grose had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: I stumbled across a range of garbage collectors aimed at freeing up RAM with some favorable comments by users. I am surprised that Win98 ...

This has probably been asked a 1000 times... My old AT PC had a single HDD(C:), a floppy(A:) and a CD-ROM(D:). I've just added a 2nd HDD and now the drive letters a- 1st HDD (C:) 2nd HDD (D:) Floppy (A:) CD-ROM (E:)

Hi. Well, here we go again. . . Here is a list of problems I have with my Thinpad 600E 2645 58G: 1. Datafab PC Card / PCMCIA smartmedia adapter not showing as a drive. The device installs as a Standard IDE / EIDE Hard Disk Controller, it's not conflicting with any other device but it can't find...

Hello. When I start the computer everything seems to run fine. But then I get this dialog box titled "NAV Auto-protect: Unable to determine the location of the configuration files." What does this mean? It then takes me to the password dialog box. I type in the password then another dialog box...

Folks, I have Windows XP on my machine and I downloaded Oracle 9.0.2 from Oracle website and when I unzip the files and click on Setup.exe, I get the message c:\downloads\disk1\setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application. I did complete virusscan, rebooted the machine, tried to unzip the files into...

Hi! I'm running a computer lab in a primary school and I want to be able to start an application in all computers in my network (about 15 computers) at the same time rather than going to each computer and start it myself. Once I heard about a backdoor program that let this kind of operations. Any...

Hi, when I start windows 98 I get a message stating that two dll files are missing. One is 'MFC71.DLL' and the other is 'MSVCP71.DLL'. I tried searching my win98 cd with windows explorer, but could not find them. Windows does start correctly and seem to run okay. The error boxes pop up on my...

I am working on an older windows 98 standard system It was infected with some sort of spyware that changed the desktop background to it's own anti-spyware sales background. I have since removed every part of the spyware I can detect, butI still do not have the background tab to be able to change...

Someone upgraded my PC from Windows98 to Win98 SE. At that point, it doesn't recognize either a Soundblaster card or sound device in motherboard. Any ideas? Please be kind! :o) Thank you

Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows...: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q222469 -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security Mark wrote: Scan disk times out after 10 times. What to do??

After an odd crash I suddenly have an stability problem on a Thinkpad laptop that has been running rather reliably for years with Win98se. The only thing I can think of is that I uninstalled Macromedia Flash recently. Other than that I've installed a Thunderbird update but not much else that I can...

I purchased wireless optical desktop "comfort edition" for use at my school (I'm a teacher). My school uses windows 98 and the keyboard/mouse needs xp or 2000. Is there a patch to windows 98 that will allow the use of this wireless optical desktop. Thanks

I'm having problems with my system slowing way down. When I do a Cntrl/ALt/Delete, I find that the subject file "is not responding". The system goes back to normal if i exit the application. I assume this is a Microsoft system manager type file. I found it in C:\WINDOWS\APPLOG. Can anyone tell...

Is there a registry setting in Windows 98 that will permanently change the pop-up boxes to the DETAILS view vs the LIST view? Thanks!

I'm running Windows 98 and whenever I do CTRL C, the computer only beeps. Nothing is copied. This is the case regardless of which application I try this in. Also, CTRLALTDEL no longer displays the Task Manager. ALTPRTSCN doesn't work either. They were all working this morning, and...

I opened the System dialog from the Control Panel on my home computer and saw on the General tab that the "Registered to" name says: Vicodin /CB/TNN -(Dr. Diet Mountain Dew)- I presume this means I have a virus or some kind of spyware. I regularly run Spybot and have Norton Antivirus. What do I...

Am running Windows 98SE and recently I have not been able to print mail in outlook Express or web pages with Internet Explorer. Printer is installed and is my default printer. I am able to print using MS Word and pdf files so must be connected. Any suggestions or ideas? TIA email response not...

The MS05-038 896727 Cumulative for IE6 unfortunately doesn't fix the long time problem of the specific IE6x W98x file delete hang issue ;) Not that is was suppose to mind you, but I had half-hoped they would of taken care of this long time problem at the same time as the current update, and this...

Hi guys Anybody help me i am not able to delete a directory using inf file fr uninstalling my application.