Hi, Can someone help out here!!!!!! Anytime I start Win98SE, I have to logon fully before system starts (standalone pc). I have tried changing the Network properties to Windows Logon but, this works only once: that is after rebooting, it starts automatically. The next time I start windows again...

I was helping a friend reformat his hard drive and reinstall Windows 98 (second edition) when we discovered (a bit late, unfortunately) that he did NOT have one of the CDs needed. Are there any Gateway users who have upgraded from win98 and might have a spare disc? It's the Operating System BackUp...

Greetings, well, I've spent a few hours trawling the Net and newsgroups for an answer to my problem, but to no avail... so I decided to actually ask. I am trying to upgrade a NEC Versa Note (PII 233) from WIn95 to Win98SE. Windows 95 worked fine on this machine. Upgrade ran smoothly, then the...

I am running WIN98SE, when I try and shut down it does so quite happily in a controlled manner but then reboots !! any suggestion ?

I have an older computer on which Win98 is running. This system basically crashed after an attempt to re-install a printer that was giving me a problem. I have tried re-installing Win98 from the CD that came with my IBM computer, but I get a message saying that I already have an upgraded version...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!......................................................... @#$%^&* Computers @#$%^&*!!! I won't tell you what I have gone through with defective hardware before I got to this point but I REALLY would like something to work as it should right now. Here's...

Hi, i have had to run windows 98 setup over the win98 version already installed on my machine - everything works fine device wise, display adapter fine etc after installing drivers again - but the only thing i can't seem to get to work is the network card even though there is no conflicts...

i just fresh installed windows se 98.it only has 16 bit color graphics. i know my computer had 256 colors when i had windows 95 on it . how do i get the upgraded graphic colors on my system?

I have posted this to several Win98 newsgroups, because I am not sure which one is the most appropriate. I have an older computer on which Win98 is running. This system basically crashed after an attempt to re-install a printer that was giving me a problem. I have tried re-installing Win98...

I tried to run a software that has msvcp60.dll in its own directory, and it complains about msvcp60.dll linked to missing export msvcrt.dll:__lc_collate_cp. I checked that msvcrt.dll has version 5.00. I searched the KB in microsoft site and a solution was installing MS Office 2000 or something,...

I just reinstalled Win98 because my computer’s been crashing frequently. (It was originally a Win95 machine that I upgraded to Win98SE a few years ago. I suspect the problem was spyware/virus. Spybot Search & Destroy found DSO Exploit. I tried to clean it, but it kept reappearing when I reran...

If the boot manager manages the boot process by writing new partition information, then the problem will be with that process. It is not uncommon for a boot manager to boot a specific OS by 'hiding' the other partition. If the partition manager has an alternative way of working, then you may...

Lars-Erik Østerud .@. wrote: 1) scanreg /fix hangs 5% out in checkin system.dat 2) winxp refuses to upgrade win98se due to registry fault I have tried everything. Even exportet registry to a file, and then recreated it from that file. Still faulty :-( Norton WinDoctor find no fault,...

I can burn bootable CD's using Nero and the Win98 startup floppy. Can you burn a bootable CD taking the contents of the Back Up files Win98 allows you to store? So in the event serious data loss you can boot up with that CD and restore the OS and files/settings/drivers from the 700MB disk. What...

Running Win98/2000 on an older barely 486 puter. It had an internal Viking ISA 33.6 modem, replaced with a Best Data ISA 56K. The problem exists in Control Panel/Modems. General tab still shows a 33.6. The modem new modem works, connects to the net.

You cannot change a drive letter for a hard disk drive, as these are assigned from DOS before Windows starts. You can use third party software to remap drive letters. See, for example: http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/ It is good practice to install your CD drive with a letter that is...

Hi I'm using win 98 (because is the ligther Windows version on which the .Net framework can be use) , I need to control that people can't change the Date and Time of the PC.. Is there a way to do it in Win 98 (via registry, script, configuration etc) or should I have to think about using another...

I had to struggle for hours for problems with 3 softwares installing some dll files. I eventually installed each software separately by clean installing win98 first each time, and finally figured out what the problem was. The dlls each of them were installing had different version numbers and...

Did you install the promise 378 ATA driver? I had 1 Seagate 160 SATA drive on the promise controller and it worked fine until I bought another. Switched to Raid driver and changed to raid in bios and has worked like a charm in Windows XP SP2. "Lars-Erik Østerud" .@. wrote in...

How can I install win98se on a sata hd? Hd is a maxtor 120 and got "boot" C partition 6mb and D "win98se" 20mb. TIA Evaristo