Hello all, Win 98 EPOX 8KTA3+PRO, VIA KT133A Chipset, VIA 4in 1, ver 4.43 Our floppy drive worked ok in the past, but has now stopped working - put a disk in(tested on another machine ok) and we get message "A:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready." or sometimes "disk is not formatted,...

I have a digital camera that used to always open the pictures in the internet browser window but now all of a sudden, it has started opening it up in the Quicktime "Picture Viewer". I have changed the file ext. in the Preferences page in the quicktime program and the MIME settings in the...

Both IE6 and FF 1.0 browsers refuse to connect to links containing "clickserve.cc-dt.com". I've found that reference in my Host file, so now understand why it won't connect. Are these bad guys? Why would a reputible business, like Harbor Freight, hook up with them if they are dastardly? I can of...

I just Reconfiged my HD with Windows 98, but now I cant get my monitor to work properly. I can't change the screen size. I cant grab the sider to change it on the display panel. The screen size is set at 630x480 yuck.... It reminds me of Windows 3.1. Also the Colour. The only choices I have are...

I'm running Windows 98SE on a 4 year old Dell Laptop with the mouse connected through a USB port The mouse kicks off fine then, after a certain length of time varying from 10 minutes to 2 hours or plays happily throughout the session and totally unpredictable, it "dies". Won't move the cursor,...

Using Win98SE and Office97 if we go straight to Word or Excel we are then able to open a word or excel file with no problem. If however we go to MyDocuments folder on the desktop & double click on a word or excel file nothing it is very slow in opening the file or in many cases we note that, from...

I began to notice some deteriation in the performance of my Compaq Deskpro EX. After running Diagnostics for Windows a 'windows/System error was indicated. After downloading all the latest patches from Microsoft and latest diagnostics from Compaq the diagnostics shows no errore. However I can...

When I start my computer, the dial-up connection comes up, if I close it, it will come up again. Also when I am doing scan disk, I get a message saying that the computer has restarted 10 times and to shut down all other programs. I never have any other programs running, and I am wondering if the...

I need to repartion and format a SCSI hard drive on an older system and reinstall Windows 98SE on it. The system also has a SCSI CD-Rom. I'm not quire sure how to proceed with this, if I make a Win98 Startup disk from the system now, will it have all the files I need to format and...

Okay. Whan I save a new file like a jpg (in IE for example) the file doesn't show up for a few minutes. Then after a while select refresh and the files icon shows up finally. The files don't appear to be missing because if I try to resave the file Windows asks me if I want to replace it, even if...

can windows 98 be installed on a SATA drive? what's the posibilities?

I got a P-3 500, cleaned out the spyware and virus, ran all updates, when you click to go to the homepage for the Pixela program, when it is about 1/2 loaded, the pc locks up tight. Owner says it also does it when using some programs, but always does it at this website, and some others.... ??????

Can anyone recommend a freeware, spyware/adware free DVD player that's compatible with W98SE? I have a CD ROM/DVD hardware drive but no DVD playing software. I can play DVDs such as MS Encarta 99 -- it's standalone -- but not DVD movies. I also have WMP V9 installed but it requires a plug-in...

Hello, I was just given a laptop that is running windows 98. I don't know too much about this computer except that it is at is disk space limit. I want get rid of everything on the pc that doesn't automatically come with windows 98. Please tell me what i need to do to clean up the hard...

I would start with a full system scan with an up to date anti virus program followed by a spyware check using updated definitions: Spyware/scumware/adware are causing numerous system problems. I recommend you download and use the following programs and consider removing everything these programs...

Hello, I recently re-installed Win98, and then McAfee cleaned out the trojan virus I had. Now I'm getting this error (see subject) and can't proceed to windows. The Microsoft support site can't find this error. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

After running AdAware SE and quarantining 62 objects (all cookies or data miners) I started having problems with Windows 98 SE. Somehow it rolled back to an earlier version. My CD-RW drive was only recognized as a regular CD-Rom drive and I'm unable to back up important files. I can't find the...

For some strange reason all of a sudden when I click StartPrograms and scroll to the bottom of the list of programs and then come back up, the entire list of programs are highlighted in a royal blue color. If I start at the bottom of the list and scroll up to the top all of the programs...

It seems my partner in Thailand has received an MSWorks file (536Kb) OK, which I sent unzipped. When I zip the file, he is unable to open it. Any clues? thoughts? I have uninstalled Winzip, downloaded a free version8 and installed that, to no avail. I do think I may have uninstalled winzip...

I read somewhere that there are tweaks that one can make to Win98 to speed up a cable modem. Does anyone here know where I can get these tweaks?