Hello I don't know if i'm in the right place but I need to install BIOS on my computer, everytime I turn computer on it says "BIOS not installed" how can I install this? I'm also trying to play a new game I bought and it won't work because I keep getting a error message "lvrs not installed"? I...

My PC running Window 98 has just started having a problem on startups. It searches for something called pnetaware.exe that it can't find. Everything seems to work fine if I click cancel and let it finish booting. Any ideas what this file does? Thanks

This stingy girl needs to know if free webmail with SMTP is possible. I already have an email *client I'm real happy with. I've tried searches, Lord knows :-) I've tried searches. Thanks. you all, for your reply. Star E.

GOLF caused a general protection fault in module CARDS.DLL at 0001:00000903. Registers: EAX=00006937 CS=693f EIP=00000903 EFLGS=00000216 EBX=00033a50 SS=6957 ESP=00001a44 EBP=00001a56 ECX=00000003 DS=6937 ESI=000304a0 FS=064f EDX=00020000 ES=6957 EDI=00001af2 GS=064f Bytes at CS:EIP: 83 bf 92 00 00...

A computer that I had to reinstall Win98SE on will no longer open .JPGs in MS Photoeditor. The file extension is correctly associated with Photoeditor and I have uninstalled and reinstalled Photoeditor a couple of times. Even opening Photoeditor FIRST and then trying to open the .JPG file gives me...

Whenever I boot my comp. the message "mprexe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." and then my comp freezes and I have to reboot and it still comes up..Also if I try to boot into safe mode that also comes up. ..does anyone know what this means and how I may fix this if I can? I...

I run a network at my school. Which has about 300 cpu's o it. We constantly have kids running kazaa or other programs that we do not allow. On windows XP we simpally run group policy editer and and kazaa to the list but for the systems that still run WIN98 we can not do this. Is there anyway we can...

Using RamCleaner, I checked its "processes" screen and found a bunch of stuff (listed below) running in the background. Could you please tell me what this stuff is and whether or not I should get rid of it? Thanks. KERNEL32.DLL MSGSRV32.EXE MPREXE.EXE MSTASK.EXE SZNTSVC.EXE

I posted a while ago about something called "Win Min" running on my computer. I haven't gotten a response in a long time, so I'll post it again. Could you please tell me what "Win Min" is? It's NOT "Winman.exe", as suggested before. And whatever it is, it never shows in my CTRL+ALT+DEL menu as a...

I have 60,000 data files in a folder. I have a list of these file names and thire contents in an Exel spredsheet. I can sort and select the file names I want in execl. What I do not know how to do is, how do I use this list of file names (usually 3000-4000 file names) to select these files and...

Please Help. I'm trying to help my father with a win 98 problem. Afetr boothing up his older machine running Win 98 he is getting an error message as follows; "Fatal exception error OE @ 0028:C02987A8 in VXDWin32(05) + 000012D0

I used Ad-Aware to clean up my system, and found something called diskcoapy.dll (yes, there's an 'a' in there). Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I was just wondering if this has something to do with a 'diskcopy' command, that is, can somebody actually download personal files off my computer...

Right now I have windows 95 on my PC. Is it possible to upgrade to Windows 98? What type of problems should I expect? Thnaks, Steve

Can someone help. I tried installing some window networking components. When I finished I restarted windows and suddendly came up with "if you deleted this file on purpose try uninstalling the associated application"I get the same message after each of these files...

I have an old PC which has just started "freezing" for no apparent reason. I have tried to run Defrag and it came with ID NO: Defrag004. How do I find out any information re this error? Thanks

I've received a bunch of "Latest Updates" emails in my Bulk folder, apparently from Microsoft (the emails sure look authentic). They come with .exe attachments that are supposedly the latest patches and security updates from Microsoft. But when I scan for viruses before downloading, i find...

Hi My pc is freezing when I close excel down....I can only clear ot by reseting. A message eventually display's saying windows resources are dangerously low yet I have 480mb ram and 40gb hard disc, with 32gb spare. I have defragged and ran scan disc, with no errors being discovered and I appear to...

I know this is a MS - Windows newgroup, but I believe the problem I'm having is rooted somewhere in Windows. Netscape messenger will not open attachments from within the browser. It makes you save the file first. This would be fine for me, but the user wants to just double click in netscape...

OLEPRO32.dll is missing. How can I reinstall it easily?

Greetings. Three problems I'm having: 1. When Windows starts, I get a message saying "ctrlpan.dll" isn't found. How do I fix this? 2. I seem to have lost my autorun.exe file from the C:\ folder. How do I get it back? 3. Weird one: when my computer starts lately, it automatically starts up a...