Hello to everybody! How can I put a command result in a variable? For example: set x={output of the command hostname} Does sombody know how to do this on win98?

"John Ochs" wrote in message news:... I tried to install a HP1310 printer and was unsuccessful. I tried to uninstall it and I'm afraid that the uninstall took something needed with it as it now hangs in the middle of loading windows. It just stops. I ran a ...

Hello Guys, On start-up I get a report that I need to run scandisk from within Windows but when I do so it stops when it has run out of memory. I have located the problem area of the disk to several downloads which were probably interrupted (improper shutdown), which I cannot delete due to,...

Where can I find a Spanish version of Windows 98? My old Dell machine came with Win98SE and I'm planning to donate it to a Spanish charity in December. I'd like it to be useful to them, so I'm looking to find a Spanish version of Windows 98. Is such a thing possible?

I'd be interested if anyone has had any experience with the current desktop search applications that index the files on your system for quicker search and access to them. I've read there are privacy concerns with the indexing. I believe Google and Yahoo, among others, have such applications. So I...

I have a hard disk with three partitions: C:D:E:. I would like to combine them all into one partition only C:. Is there a reliable/recomended software that I can use to do this that will not destroy any data? Thanks.

Hi Guys, I made a bit of a pig's bottom of installing some USB drivers for a "mass storage device" and I'm left with a lot of yellow markers and an unrecognised MSD. Unfortunately, when I try and remove said drivers the system freezes/locks up. Any suggestions of how to remove these drivers or...

My wife is running Win98 and Outlook Express 6 on her desktop. Sometimes when she opens OE, there are no messages showing in the Inbox. There is this error message: Folder Could Not Be Displayed Outlook Express could not open this folder Possible causes a * low disk space * low memory

How do I fix this ActiveX component?

I recently had to reinstall Windows 98 (to upgrade to SE). As a result I had to reinstall MS Office, but the data has all vanished -- calendar, address book etc. Where does MS Office keep it? -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa

Hi: Can anyone suggest any aplications (freeware, shareare,etc.) that will actually wipe your hard drive clean not just erase the pointers so that any persoanl data that may have been on the Hard Disk is not retrievable by anyone no matter how good of a hacker they may be ? Will doing a...

"Invalid Page Fault" in RPCSS when I start Windows 98. Why?Is this dangerous?What can I do? Thank you.

I have Windows 98SE with USBl ports. I have an HP digital camera with USBll cable. Can I transfer pics from camera to computer, safely?

When I attempt to open an E-Mail attachment, I get the following message: "This file is too large for Notepad to open. Would you like WordPad to read this file?" When I click on "yes" I get nothing but gibberish.Is there any way that I can read this file?

The following are two files names of many found in a directory called spotlt (not relevant). My questions are (a) How did they get there and (b) How do i get rid of them as delete gives an error 106 (no can delete) and scandisk wants more mem to run and there is none to gove (even...

Today I started up my computer and went to Outlook Express to start work. It froze up immediately. CTRL-ALT-DEL did not work and I finally pushed the button. Started it back up again. Then tried to do a system maintenance. During the Scan disk some of the functions wording became overlapped and...

When I start my computer, I often get a messages: Windows protection error: you need to restart your computer So I restart my computer, and get a message saying Windows protection error: you need to restart your computer What is one supposede to do about this in "Safe mode", which is...

Hi, Can anyone please tell me where can I obtain Windows 98 USB driver? Thanks, George

Hi there, I hope somebody might be able to help.... Looking through Google and other resources this is an obvious "million times" asked question howoever I'm still not able to resolve the issue and iI have not quite seen the exact symptoms mentioned before. Using WIN98SE as of yesterday...

Remember MS DOS? I have a new computer (Win-XP), but I still keep my old one going (W98se). I'm having troubles with my W98se one. Basically, Windows Explorer is not functioning correctly... sometimes not at all! I've posted questions about that, but the thread has been lost/deleted. I'm hoping...