I had Windows 98 SE installed on my computer and now when I boot up I get the message "Explorer" This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If this problem persists, please contact the vendor. Then when I click on Details, it says; Explorer has caused an invalid page...

i want to reinstall windows 98 on my system which already has windows 98 but i forgot the key of it. Now it is asking me for the key. I don't want to format my disk. Is there a way to see which windows key is installed. My current windows is working but there is some problem in it so i want to...

The c: drive on my computer was formatted and windows 98 installed - message keeps coming up to change color resolution to 800 but won't let me change

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:01 -0700, brenda wrote: I have an older computer which uses windows 98. my young son entered a user password at set up and has now forgotten the password. As a result we can no longer even get past the set up section and cannot start...

Is it possible to download an upgrade from first edition to second? Can first edition be tweaked to work with software that requires a minimum of win 98se? I am looking to go onto broadband but my telco advises me the min spec is se - can I get round this?

Hi There, after some help trying to reinstall windows 98 - at the moment when i try to start the computer it comes up required .dllfile shlwapi.dll not found and says you need to reinstall windows. Unfortunatley this is before i can get into the main screens to run the windows cd. how do you run...

i have a hp pavillion 6545c and when i boot up its says nt detect file(S) not found and i dont hav any recovery discs? but i have the file on a floppy w/msdos

I am getting two error messages when I start my computer with Windows 98 installed. The first is, 'Cannot find the file cdsetup.exe or one of its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all libraries are available. The second is, Could not load or run 'cdsetup.exe'...

Hi All, I'm having lots of trouble with Win98SE running on an old Dell PowerEdge server (PentiumII-233/128MB RAM/18GB SCSI 10K RPM HDD). Even when I was installing, there were times when Win98 setup rebooted and I got a "no boot disk" message afterwards. I could get past those booting...

Ive just reformatted my Hard drive and and having problems reinstalling 98SE. I can make it was far as when it does scan disk then it says copying files needed for windows or something like that. Then the screen goes blank and it takes me back to a dos prompt. Any body knows why or how to fix it?

I am trying to upgrade my windows 98 to 98 second edition but every time I try it says that I have the wrong disk. I have a brand new win 98se installation disk. can anybody help

Bought used compaq computer. Everything removed. Trying to install win.98 as the op.system. Unable to locate start up disk. Downloaded one from microsoft, still no luck. I would be greatful for any advice.

I have a computer that's getting fatal exception errors, occasional freezes during boot, an autoreboot on occasion; all after I fdisked and reinstalled 98, with all updates and current McAfee virus definition files. I checked the harddrive surface with scandisk, updated the BIOS and now I'm...

Dear All, I have the following problem and I was wondering If someone can help me. When I install windows 98 in my machine which is a P4 3.2Ghz with 3 CDRoms and 2 HDD (80Gb and 120GB the second one in two particions 20MB and 100MB)LAN and sound on board (MSI motherboard) when the installation...

i, am having troubles with msn messenger ver 6.2 since i install it i cannot get audio with netmeet or webcam also now i cant shut down my computer as i ticked something i should have ,,,,,,thankyou

my computer crashed-trying to restart from boot disk-get error message that file windows\command missing any advice

I have an HP that came with it's own recovery disk. Original Windows is 98...then I installed 98 update...then ME. I was having problems so decided to re-install the original software without formatting the C drive. It gives you the option of formatting or not to save files. After re-installing...

Having a bit of a problem when booting for the first time after reinstallation of win98 se - when I boot, it goes to the win98, loading windows for the first time screen, and doesnt lock, just stops working, so I press ESC and a message is there that says, Config.sys too large for memory, remove...

Can anyone help, after having difficulty installing some Norton software, I have been told that I have missing /corrupt Mircosoft Installer files. Can anyone tell me how I access/install these files? Thank you

Hi, I was updating a machine from Windows 95 to Windows 98. I did the simple delete and recreate a FAT32 partition, then install Win98. After it did its first reboot I got an error message stating that vmm32.vxs is either missing or it cannot load. My only option after that is to reboot the...