On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:35:43 -0500, "Ken Sappio" wrote: (folder), but if it was a clean install of Win9x then there would be no C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND directory. It would be, it would be ... -- Regards, SPAJKY ® & visit my site @ http://www.spajky.vze.com

Hello! Win98 SE does not seem to read CD-ROMs anymore. It can eject and load CD's but doesn't seem to be able to read anything. Can this be a matter of updating the driver? I use a LITEON LTD 163D DVD/CD-ROM drive. Also, when trying to run Scandisk from Windows, I get a message telling me "out of...

I am using an ancient DOS program (Money Counts) with my Windows 98 Computer. When I go to the DOS prompt and navigate to the proper directory, then try to execute the program, I get this error message: Runtime error 200 at 2469:0091 Can anyone help me? I have another Windows 98 computer that...

My old Win98 system was so full of rubbish that I decided to format the hard drive and install Windows 98 SE. I used my Win98 startup disk and ran fdisk, successfully creating two FAT32 partitions of approx 10,000 MB each. I then restarted with CD-ROM support and changed to my CD-ROM drive (did DIR...

I would like to eliminate the Games on our 98 and XP machines, so that they cannot be reinstalled without a disk. How can I do this? Thanks.

After reformatting and reinstalling Win98 I'm trying to set up networking. In Control Panel - Networking I bring up properties for the TCP/IP listed for my adapter. In Bindings it shows two components, neither of which is the network adapter. Is this right? The adapter bindings show TCP/IP,...

I am load w98 on a older laptop (COMPAQ Presario 1275) Been unable to load W98 after 2 complete reformats of the C: including deleting and creating partition from FDisk. I did try to load W XP Home and that of course went fine but I will not keep on because of product key is for another...

Help! I made a stupid mistake and interuppted the Win 98SE CD while I was reinstalling, now I can't boot into anything other than command prompt (can't get into safe mode). I was reinstalling Win 98SE to help fix a problem I had with the screen size slider (it wouldn't work), when I hit the wrong...

Following a catastrophic HD sector problem, a new HD was installed and most of my files were recovered. However, I noticed that the "Network Neighborhood" icon appeared on the desktop. I seem to recall encountering this problem some time ago and someone told me how to get rid of it, but I can't...

I have 14 year old son that thinks that every time a pop up comes across his screen he needs to click YES At any rate. In the past year I have dumped everything on his pc and started over and have never had any problems. I delete all the files on both drives. c: and D: then format then load...

Is there any way to get win98 to show filenames unboogered? I can't tell if it's loading the right files or not when attempting to set up networking after the meltdown. For instance, I have .inf files loading. It shows "Intelm~1.inf" when the filename could be either "mdm100b.inf" or...

My DVD drives will not see the folder: VIDEO_TS and it's file extensions of *.BUT, *.IFO, *.VOB written to a DVD-R, instead I see one ..CDA file. On the rare times it has read correctly and played the video files, I copied some of the files to my C, D, and E hard drives to see if I could see and...

I used a friend's Recovery Disk to fix a serious problem problem I had with my computer. Now, it replaced my Win 98 with Win XP. I want to get the Win XP off my computer, and the 98 back on. I can't figure out how to get out of Windows and back to a plain ol' DOS prompt to delete the program, or...

I used a friend's Recovery Disk to fix my computer. It installed Win XP on the computer. I want my Win 98 back. PLEASE someone tell me how to do it.

Hi all, I have a 98se shutdown problem. With "disable fast shutdown" checked the system hangs on the shutdown screen and won't go any further. With "disable fast shutdown" unchecked the system reboots every time shutdown is selected. Both result in having to use the front power button and then...

I had a cable modem hookup on my computer for internet service. I have since disconnected the computer from the internet. However, every few seconds I'm still getting a dialogue box asking me if I want to connect or work offline. Even after I click "work offline", it pops up again every few...

My computer screwed up while trying to update Win 98 SE to Win 2000. It hung half way through corrupting win 98 SE. Now I cannot reload win 98 SE and make it work properly. It seem to have loaded win 98 in a new file windows.000. What do I do? Help -- fletch

Trying to get my 10 year old Gateway with Windows 98SE to work again, but am unable to get it booted up with the startup floppy/CD-ROM discs. Can't even get into the Safe mode now. I think it mainly states it is missing some drivers/files - I thought I loaded them up again with the SYS command at...

I have a situation where open windows are smaller than the content of the window. For example when I open the window to the connection to my DSL, the window is a specific size and can't be adjusted, but I can't see or select the button that allows me to connect to the internet. How do I adjust...

i cant install programs with the msi extension it just wants to open in wordpad