Hi there I've bought my daughter a refurbished base unit. It hasn't come with anything and I wanted to install her licenced copy of Windows 98. The computer doesn't recognise the CD Rom drive so I've tried to install the CD-ROM driver for DOS and it's coming up with an error 'Can't find...

Using Windows 98SE, I temporarily closed the Quick Launch Toolbar by right clicking the taskbar, selecting Toolbars and unchecking Quick Launch Toolbar. After I re-enabled the Quick Launch Toolbar, it isn't located where it previously was. Initially, it was just to the right of the Start...

I have a 250 gig hard drive with windows xp in it and then I have a 40 gig hard drive with windows 98 in it. when I try to boot into the windows 98 I get the following msg: "Insufficient memory to initialize windows Quit one or more memory - resident programs or remove unneccsary utilities from...

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I have a hewlett packard vectra .. 128mg pentIII 500mhz..the pc has a smaller hd which is 6.5 gigs as the master drive.. I installed another hd.. the slave .. which came from another pc whose motherboard went bad... the "slave" is partitioned.. what I would like and NEED to do is format the slave...

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In folder right-click mouse, will popup a menu. I dont know why today lose(miss) two import item in popup menu. a, "send to-- desktop shortcut" item is lose. b. "new -- folder, text file, ......" item is lose. I check disk two folder is there. but why miss in menu?

I get an error message "filename will not be updated because the merge handler cannot be loaded" Any ideas? -- Best regards Rick

Hi, I have a couple of software programs that were once installed on my Win95 desktop that I can give to my sister if they'll run okay on a Win98SE laptop (new in 2000). The laptop *appears* to meet the system requirements of the software. See laptop specs and software system requirements...

hi, ive asked about this already but i think i messed it up. im trying to wipe my computer and reinstall win. 98. i have deleted the partition as instructed and that worked fine. now when i try to reboot with the CD, it says theres an error and i should insert the setup (startup?)disk and...

I have been working on my friends Compaq Presario 5712, which is dead in the water. I am unable to boot it in normal or safe mode. I receive to error messages, one is a security message and the other is a explorer message. The ezplorer message = "This program has performed an illegal operation...

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 am trying to install Windows 98se on a virtual PC. The virtual Pc and virtual hard drive have been created. The virtual PC which I want to use to install Windows 98se is started. When the I boot Windows 98 from a floppy I get a message that drive C doesn't have a valid fat or fat32 table...

Win98se / ME will report "This device is working properly." how ever IDE devices are connected, but IDE controllers have 2 limits never pointed out by hdd / cdd / ddd / mboard /chipset makers Per www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable-c.html "Using the middle connector and leaving the end...

Using W98SE. We have 3 users on this computer so that each must login to their own environment. One user uses Quicken and has put Quicken Billminder in their startup. This is now starting when any of the 3 users logon. Is it possible to have a seperate startup for each user? If yes how would I...

When I restarted my PC and it got to the screen where you have a username and password an error appeared. It told me i needed to re-install windows. I tried starting in safe mode and the same error appeared so I tried to go into ms dos mode and from here I am stuck. I noticed when my pc was booting...

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When I start my computer it brings up the error "Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module Explorer.exe ..." then goes to a blank desktop. Shortly before the problem occurred, Ne****ch.exe was deleted. I'm assuming this must have caused the problem. Is there any way I can just restore that...

Read the response I made and you will have your answer. Click on the + sign to see responses. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

On boot up I get the messages c:windows\filename is either missing or corupted. With XP I know you can repair your windows installation but I was wondering if you run the set up process of windows 98 will it reinstall everything or will it just repair what has been corupted any help...