picked up an old pc for kids to play around on. pent 133...and just installed windows 98 SE I've cleaned most of the old stuff up....ran spybot and ad-aware.....spybot's picked up this download accelerator plus ads and can't seem to get rid of it. I had it run on start up(seems htese ads were...

I am having to advise a friend by phone on how to get his new 256mb ram chip recognised in Windows 98. He says that the initial boot up check shows that the new 256mb of ram is present, but when he looks at the configuration in Windows it says thst only 128mb is present. The chip is SDRAM...

I am having to advise a friend by phone on how to get his new 256mb ram chip recognised in Windows 98. He says that the initial boot up check shows that the new 256mb of ram is present, but when he looks at the configuration in Windows it says thst only 128mb is present. The chip is SDRAM type. He...

on starting win98 I get the following message:the following files are an old version.probably replacing the correct version when you entered a new program.your programs will not work correctly with these files.they cannot be corrected unless you restart the computer.these are the...

computer hangs after start up: desktop appears then mouse and keyboard freeze

System H-P Pavilion 9600, 256 Mb ram This computer can't see a font in the font folder when looking with Explorer. Word Perfect, Word 6/7, and Wordpad can't see it either. It doesn't appear in the registry. But I can see the font in the folder if I use another computer on the network with with...

This is merely a casual interest: What are the general contents of the many unmovable clusters on my hard drive, and why are they unmovable? In the days of 20Mb hard drives, I had a DOS disk organizer program that would permit you to move any cluster to any unoccupied slot. Just for fun, I moved...

This is merely a casual interest: What are the general contents of the many unmovable clusters on my hard drive, and why are they unmovable? In the days of 20Mb hard drives, I had a DOS disk organizer program that would permit you to move any cluster to any unoccupied slot. Just for fun, I...

System H-P Pavilion 9600, 256 Mb ram This computer can't see a font in the font folder when looking with Explorer. Word Perfect, Word 6/7, and Wordpad can't see it either. It doesn't appear in the registry. But I can see the font in the folder if I use another computer on the network with with...

Hello, There is a technician that I work with that must enjoy hearing himself talk. He has different stories that he relays to our clients on a day-to-day basis. The latest bullsh!t is: He told someone that Windows 98 will not work with anything more than 128 MB ram. Does anyone know if this is...

Hello, There is a technician that I work with that must enjoy hearing himself talk. He has different stories that he relays to our clients on a day-to-day basis. The latest bullsh!t is: He told someone that Windows 98 will not work with anything more than 128 MB ram. Does anyone know if...

I went to the add/remove programs app and deleted garbage that AOL installed on my system. Garbage like the AOL Toolbar, AOL explorer (different than IE) and a free spyware scanner (I use McAfee). But know everytime I reboot I receive a message that the file "MFC42.dll" cannot be found. I...

Am using Win 98SE and I cannot re-install McAfee antispyware. I contacted tech support whom were unable to help me on two occassions. They tried, but they did not know. I may contact them a third time, or perhaps someone here knows the answer, which would be nice. But anyways everytime I...

I am using a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop which runs Windows 98 Second Edition. The last time I used this computer to connect to the Internet was some 2-3 months ago. Just last night I attempted to get on the Internet with it, but I was unable too. My network PCMCIA card works, but cant connect. I...

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Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy...

Whenever I insert a CD into my Win 98 laptop it always launches Wndows Media Player. How can I change this so that the CD Player app launches instead? I have a older laptop (only 266mhz) and Media Player takes much longer to load than the CD Playing app that Windows 9.x shipped with, which is...

I am using a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop which runs Windows 98 Second Edition. The last time I used this computer to connect to the Internet was some 2-3 months ago. Just last night I attempted to get on the Internet with it, but I was unable too. My network PCMCIA card works, but cant connect. I...

Am using Win 98SE and I cannot re-install McAfee antispyware. I contacted tech support whom were unable to help me on two occassions. They tried, but they did not know. I may contact them a third time, or perhaps someone here knows the answer, which would be nice. But anyways everytime I...

Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy...