Hi, back again to pick some brains. Probably should have put this under Networking. Trying to help Elyson on Techguy.org forums. This is his problem. No names in cache error message Hi all, I have a home networking problem with a Laptop that's running Vista Home Premium, a Win XP desktop and a...

I usually delete files (folders too) with shift-delete rather than delete; you know, so it says "are you sure you want to permanently delete" rather than "are you sure you want to ... recycle bin" (and with a different icon). Thing is, nearly always, it doesn't work first time: it usually comes...

I have a network printer installed on the LAN with it's own IP address. How do I configure "Add Printer" wizard to connect to this printer from a Win98 PC ?

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Scanners nowadays commonly use WIA = Windows Image Acquisition, part of the WinXP suite (I think.) It is not the fast (e.g. takes 20 sec. to scan a 9 Mb reference image under XP, cf. 32-bit Twain's 14 sec.) Did any clever programmer ever produce something akin to WIA for Win98? I installed a...

I recently used QuickRestore for Windows 98, and my computer rebooted in French. How do I change the language?

I am using a Kensington Web Racer as my mouse in Win98SE. Occasionally when 98se boots up, the driver for the Web Racer will not boot up along with the OS, so this great mouse becomes just another 2 button mouse. How can I setup the boot process so that the driver for the Web Racer (exshow95.exe)...

i have an etower 500is it has been upgraded from a 4gb hdd with a 10gb as master and the original 4gc as slave from 32mb ram to 256mb now the problem is someone was using my computer and crashed it it was wiped clean i had an old 98 disc when installed it had a few missing file internet expl...

This seems to have resolved itself. I do not know why this was happening and I do not know how it resolved itself. It has an eerie undertone of a hijack or a violation of the systems computer security. I hope someone at Microsoft will look at this Dr.Watson log. tia "Jim" ...

I have brought my old Win 98 SE back to life for my grandsons (ages 5 & 6) to play their internet games (specifically www.totaldramaisland.com). I worked with MEB on the Win 98 Networking forum and he was very helpful. I have now performed my Windows Updates, installed IE6, Avast Antivirus,...

From time to time, the icons on my desktop rearrange, all to the left. I do not have auto arrange icons set. I have Ez-desk, so it's not a major problem to put them back where I want them, but it _is_ irritating. It seems to come and go in phases, and I've had it on at least two machines. At...

I have an AC power RCA PC-6420 USB hub with 4 ports plugged into one of the 2 usb ports on my P3 600 Win98SE computer, I have my printer + scanner in the hub. Is is ok to have the usb hub on all the time that my computer is on, or should I only turn it on when I want to use either the printer or...

I have a partitioned C:\ drive with Windows 98SE on one partition. The drive is going bad. I need to get that info moved to a different drive but with Windows 98SE still functional. I can't go back and do the upgrades anymore. Can I do it all at once? Do I have to partition the new drive and do...

Windows NT, 95, 98, and Me are supported by Microsoft only for customers who PAY A FEE. As a result, Microsoft releases patches for these operating systems only to people who have Premier support contracts with the company. However, as was reported on the Patch Management blog by Eric Schultze of...

Hi, I reformated the hard drive, my son had all kinds of bugs on the computer. Immediately after reformatting, windows 98 se won't even load, it goes to the blue screen of death with all kinds of VXD messages, Fatal error exception 0D 0028:c00014AD in VXDVMM(01) + 000004AD

I had access to this group for years in OE newsgroups but I can't access them anymore so I had to signup for this windows live thing. what is up with this? I couldn't use my e-mail address (verizon.net) " The portion of your e-mail address that follows the @ symbol is part of a "reserved...

I was on computer today and went to shutdown computer when I was done. The computer shutdown then restart requesting information as if I had reformatted the computer. It asked for name and company then product key code which is back of CD package. I bought this computer used and didn't...

I have problem with Wimpy FLV Player: and it does not work on Windows 98. I tried also previous version of that player (2.5) -same result, plus player cause windows system error. Player developers were too lazy even to specify system requirements for they "industry leading cross platform (Mac and...

what is the most handy desktop FLV Player for win98?

I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98 on it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive. anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe...