I will shortly travel to my sister's, where she has a Dell with Windows 98. Since I want to add Norton Internet Security 2005, and since that program requires having W98 SE on the machine, I will take my old SE update CDROM with me and install it. Question: What hints, preliminary steps,...

I haven't had any problems with SP2 ...come to that I can't remember having a problem with a service pack for any Windows platform EVER, ...past and present, (excluding ME - rarely ever worked on machines with that in'em). ....yesterday, and day b4, had to download W2k 4 floppy boot up...

shouldnt have put that subject line, but....... I forgot where it is you go to change the sound the puter makes when you receive an email, any takers? ta g/h

I'm trying to add a Tcp/Ip port in Windows 98 for a network copier and when I go and try to install a standard Tcp/Ip there is not an option for that port. Does anyone have an idea? -- Sammy

Richard: R Can anyone point me to a step by step primer for connecting two home Pc's. Go to www.wown.com (and send them the few dollars for going through all that work -- IMO definately worth it for the time and headaches they saved me!). R I've never had anything to do with networking,...

I have an old Win98 operating system on one of my computers. It recently started giving an error stating it cannot find WINAPI32.dll. I did a scandisk and found a couple of bad sectors on my hard drive - probably where this file resided. But I'm not familiar with this file and don't know...

Hi to all, Wishing to make a back up of my system using Drive image 2002 9x - = v-1.0.0.1. Have tried with the CD method, but didn't work. As I have = about 13 Gb's of 20 Gb C drive free (5.47 used space) I'd like to = create a partition to put the data so as to burn this to CD's. Have googled...

1-my pentium 2 hangs up frequently. 2-when I leave computer unattended say for 1 hour,it stops responding. please help.

.... that will:- error check all my drives, defragment them, search out duplicate files, and delete all unnecessary files, ....including clearing TIF.... uninstall programs that I'm never going to use again ...(using some sort of clairvoyance algorithm !) ....make all dust in my system box vanish...

Hi, I would like to know how to get rid of websites that "Search and Destroy" found and put in my Restricted sites in the Internet Properties. There are app. 1998 of them found. I do not want them on my computer. I never plan on going to any of them. I never went to them to begin with. How do I get...

My kids turned off the computer we have. ....using the hard shut down. now when i turned it back on it keeps loading in dos mode and i cannot get windows to come on....help!!

Have been away from home for extended periods and in on weekends for a only a few hours at a time. On one of my weekend "visits" (mid to late Aug. '04), I had several Critical Updates available, which I downloaded successfully. About a month or so ago, I was home again and doing some work on...

Pls advise what can be done to fix: example: ms works open, try copy - paste info, try to paste into another document, and error message "out of memory". Running W 98se on an older IBM Aptiva, 256 RAM, K-6 processor. I am about ready to reformat disk and reinstall OS and programs. Spyware checked. ...

didnt think i'd need to ever post this question, but its gotten out of hand. my standard win98 defrag mechanism takes absolutely forever to happen. left home yesterday a.m with defrag running and when i got back it was still going; and i'm only talking about the Cdrive alone. keeps re-starting...

Looking at new Dell 8400 systems. 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM. Both systems run Pentium 3.2GHZ 540 processor, 800mhzFSB. One system RAM is rated at 400MHZ and the other at 533MHZ. How significant a difference is this? Thanks, Steve T.

and there's always a "but"--I cannot connect using IE6. This is W98Gold. Had a meltdown, and had to reinstall my ATT dialer. Wouldn't authorize, so AT tech supp worked me through all the dialer issues. No joy. So uninstalled dialer, DUN etc, and reinstalled DUN per knowledge base 181599. Tech...

I just installed one of these onto a friends XP e-machine (PC). One LAN lead goes to the above and one LAN lead goes to her older W98 PC Now, I had sort of gathered that a hardware firewall is supposed to be better than a software firewall ! ...? Well, why is that when visiting http://www.grc.com...

I was runing IE 4.0 and I downlaoded and installed IE 6.0, along with all the recommended critical updates. Having done that, I now get the following message when I start up: EXPLORER This program has performed an illegal operation & will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact program...

Over the years I've been in and out of MSCONFIG, and programs that once were in my startup menu have been deleted from the disk and no longer exist on my computer. But they're still listed in MSCONFIG. I've gone through and unchecked these orphans (there were mcAffee listings checked back through...

My neice has Win98 on her PC, but has no USB ports. She has purchased a USB 2.0 PCI card and fitted it. She has run the Broadband software supplied to her but it cannot loacate the file "OPENHCI.SYS". Her Broadband supplier says she needs to extract this file from the Win98 CD Rom. How do we...