Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me solve this problem. When I right click to open a new folder, or to rename a file, my pc freezes and I have to close down. This happens every time. It has only just started to do it. I have Windows 98 SE. Very grateful for any help. Vee

After I installed a new 40GB hard drive in my laptop PC and re-installing Win98SE, I used an old version of Partition Magic to repartition the drive into 13/15/10GB pieces and change the cluster size from the default 32KB to 8KB. However, I've noticed that while re-installing data files and other...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me solve this problem. When I right click to open a new folder, or to rename a file, my pc freezes and I have to close down. This happens every time. It has only just started to do it. I have Windows 98 SE. Very grateful for any help. Vee

Windows Explorer is locking up more and more. Even to the point of preventing a normal reboot to be able to get things up and running again. Is it possible some file has changed? and needs to be "refreshed"? How is this done? Or, how is the file that's changed found and refreshed? ...

Win98SE historically ran a defragment on the C: drive, but now sits for hours throwing the confetti into the air, collecting it, but NEVER advancing into any amount of completion. Even displaying full details shows a large blank screen. Any ideas? - Robert -

After I installed a new 40GB hard drive in my laptop PC and re-installing Win98SE, I used an old version of Partition Magic to repartition the drive into 13/15/10GB pieces and change the cluster size from the default 32KB to 8KB. However, I've noticed that while re-installing data files and...

Over the past few days the following 2 different scenarios occur on my Gateway desktop running Win98SE. (1) While in IE6, the mouse will "freeze" for about 30 seconds and then be fine. About 10 minutes later the same thing happens. About 5-10 minutes later is completely freezes. The system is not...

Some Icons change when copied from Desk top to Quick launch toolbar. When I open the quick launch folder all icons in the folder are the same as displayed on the Desktop. The icons change when dragged from desk top to quick launch toolbar. Anybody know why? Tia, Emark

A elderly friend recently had an old Norton taken off his Win 98 system, and a new McAfee added on, as well as some items such as ccleaner, adaware, and spybot. When the computer is left on all night, the next morning there is a blue screen with the message "A fatal exception 0E has occurred...

A elderly friend recently had an old Norton taken off his Win 98 system, and a new McAfee added on, as well as some items such as ccleaner, adaware, and spybot. When the computer is left on all night, the next morning there is a blue screen with the message "A fatal exception 0E has occurred at...

Some Icons change when copied from Desk top to Quick launch toolbar. When I open the quick launch folder all icons in the folder are the same as displayed on the Desktop. The icons change when dragged from desk top to quick launch toolbar. Anybody know why? Tia, Emark

The other day I did a disk cleanup then a manual search for .tmp files trying to make some room on my HD. I deleted all the .tmp files and emptied the recycle bin. Now Disk Defragmenter has stopped working. Or I should say it starts but never gets past 0%. The HD is quite busy and it makes the...

a low level format will not mark bad sectors "Cartaphilus" wrote: here_and_there wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:41:06 -0500, Cartaphilus wrote: Bible John wrote:

a low level format will not mark bad sectors "Cartaphilus" wrote: here_and_there wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:41:06 -0500, Cartaphilus wrote: Bible John wrote:

The other day I did a disk cleanup then a manual search for .tmp files trying to make some room on my HD. I deleted all the .tmp files and emptied the recycle bin. Now Disk Defragmenter has stopped working. Or I should say it starts but never gets past 0%. The HD is quite busy and it makes the...

When I move my sound slider up and down I do not hear the basic DING noise on my 98 laptop. I do not hear any noise as a matter of fact. Does anyone know why? Thanks John --

When I move my sound slider up and down I do not hear the basic DING noise on my 98 laptop. I do not hear any noise as a matter of fact. Does anyone know why? Thanks John --

Am using Win 98SE and I cannot re-install McAfee antispyware. I contacted tech support whom were unable to help me on two occassions. They tried, but they did not know. I may contact them a third time, or perhaps someone here knows the answer, which would be nice. But anyways everytime I...

Am using Win 98SE and I cannot re-install McAfee antispyware. I contacted tech support whom were unable to help me on two occassions. They tried, but they did not know. I may contact them a third time, or perhaps someone here knows the answer, which would be nice. But anyways everytime I...

I was attempting to backup my Windows98 Favorites onto a floppy, when I got this error message: "Cannot copy (file name) : Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." The named file was without a link icon (the blue "e" with the arrow), which indicated...