When I open Control Panel, it takes up to a minute for it to open. Other programs open fast. Win 98, AVG, no spyware Any ideas Thanks John A

Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures & Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and still, it takes a...

On rebooting today, almost all of my shortcuts do not function and have reverted to the MS non-specific icon. None of my .exe files will open when I click on them directly in the directories; I get the "Open with..." box. I can open and run the programs from the Start | Run box. Norton...

On rebooting today, almost all of my shortcuts do not function and have reverted to the MS non-specific icon. None of my .exe files will open when I click on them directly in the directories; I get the "Open with..." box. I can open and run the programs from the Start | Run box. Norton...

I have a 500mhz pen111 gateway system with 256meg of ram, I recently hooked up to high speed cable connection and installed a macafee firewall, my system now is freezing up at times when using the high speed connection. When checking my system performance I'm getting a reading of 68% resources...

How do I change the windows 98 splash size screen during bootup? It currently takes up the whole screen and I just want it to be small. Also it seems to take a long time going through this part of the bootup. System is 500 p3 processor with 576 mb ram. Any ideas? JPC

My computer is an IBM PC 300PL Win 98se os, 500 mhrtz pIII processor with 256 mb ram. Since I restored my registry from the dos command prompt I have noticed a purple number 8000 in the lower right side screen during boot up. Does any one know what this is? JPC

My computer is an IBM PC 300PL Win 98se os, 500 mhrtz pIII processor with 384 mb ram. I have partitioned one drive to C,D&E. E is used as swap file. C&D are fat 32, E is fat. Is this a conflict? I am still hearing a beep every so often. JPC

I read that one short tone from computer speaker is "Dram Refresh Failure". What does this mean? JPC

My computer is an IBM PC 300PL Win 98se os, 500 mhrtz pIII processor with 768 mb ram. Every so often my computer makes a single beep. How do I find out what this means? JPC

My computer is an IBM PC 300PL Win 98se os, 500 mhrtz pIII processor with 768 mb ram. When I boot up I get this line: C\Rem TShoot: Rem TShoot: Does anyone know what this means? I recently activated my autoexec.bat file by inserting a line in order to get an old HP Calcomp program to work. Machine...

When I boot up 98se (splash screen disabled) it shows some commands after "starting windows 98". How do I disable these commands? JPC

Go to your autoexec.bat file and make the first line "@echo off", minus the quotes of cousre. "John Callaway" wrote in message ... When I boot up 98se (splash screen disabled) it shows some commands after "starting windows 98"....

Which is better/quicker for win 98 pIII 576MB ram 12g HDD system and what are the reasons for choosing either? JPC

Is it ok to disable Rnaapp & Ibmmon in msconfig startup? JPC

What is this directory $vault$.avg? It has been created recently and has 2 files in it with .fil extensions. JPC

My computer is an IBM PC 300PL Win 98se os, 500 mhrtz pIII processor with 576 mb ram. It has 3 memory slots. It came with 2 64mb sticks of memory. I bought 2 256 sticks. I have put 64, 256, 256 respectively into slots 1, 2 and 3. When I boot up memory checks out ok. When I test my memory using...

Good morning Each time I switch my computer on I receive the same thre massages. Apart from these messages everything appears to be workinf apart from Outlook Express. 1. Setup was unable to open information file C:\WINDOWS\115 vH.inf. error code 0x2 at line 5767288

Experts: I am having an intermittent but persistant problem with Windows 98se "freezing" when playing video clips. Most often play stops and mouse clicks have no effect. Ctrl-Alt-Del will NOT bring up the running program list but 3 Ctrl-Alt-Dels WILL reboot the system normally without running...

Experts: I am having an intermittent but persistant problem with Windows 98se "freezing" when playing video clips. Most often play stops and mouse clicks have no effect. Ctrl-Alt-Del will NOT bring up the running program list but 3 Ctrl-Alt-Dels WILL reboot the system normally without running...