This morning i woke up a slow computer. Everything was taking longer than it should. I bumped Ad-Aware, which I had last web-updated on Sunday and it said "corrupt or missing file" for the main pattern searching file. I went to Lavasoft update which said Ad-Aware 6 was no longer supported...

Hi, Sometimes for no apparent reason a couple of the icons on my task bar change into something other than the norm. What causes this? Thanks, Nutty

when I try to start my programs from the start menu, nothing happens, it doesn't freeze but nothing opens. The only way I can get to a program is through the run command.

I have this same problem in Win95, 98, 98SE I connect using dialup, but if I try to do a defrag or move a large amount of files from one folder to another the dialup connection stops. When the defrag finishes, the connection resumes as normal. It's obvious that the problem occurs whenever there...

I'm running out of places to find help with this... Defragging always seemed to change the file attributes on my computer. I'd have to go in and manually restore the View attributes to "View as Webpage" and "Details." Annoying, but I figured that was Win98. Now there's something new. After the...

My IE browser keeps locking up and then restarts my computer. This only happens when i use my browser on-line. I can use everything else including my chat services but when I use IE it is locking up or freezing my computer and sometimes restarts my computer. It does this when one of few things...

Dual Booting - Possibly Tri-Booting? I'm trying to "Dual Boot" using an older version of Win98 and a "newer" version. I also have XP that I wish to install, along with the two versions of 98, but I might not. What is the best way to install each of these OS's and not have to have a boot loader...

what steps should i take to the problem of freezing screens and a message not enough memory when i have a 256 ram with only 4 applications opened?

Hello again, I need help finding out about the error Msbb. *Msbb* An error has occured in your program. To keep working anyway, click Ignore and save your work in a new file. To quit this program, click Close. You will lose information you entered since your last save. *Msbb*

I am installing a lexmark 5150 all in ne priter. near the nd of the installation processs I ger a serve rroe messasger that ays no valid inf files on this system. cannot continue installation. i am using windows 98 second edition. how am i going to be able to obtain inf files?

Everytime I try to copy from my C drive and paste into my A drive, or drag & drop I get a message "cannot copy, system can't read from the specified device"

Yesterday, 6/1, I was rebooting to safe mode to do a defrag when i got the message I first tried f8, apparently I needed to wait until "Windows Starting" but I didn't and got a device boot menu. I tried again, holding f5 down, I got "Warning. Corrupted Registry". It installed a working registry...

Good morning Each time I switch my computer on I receive the same thre massages. Apart from these messages everything appears to be workinf apart from Outlook Express. 1. Setup was unable to open information file C:\WINDOWS\115 vH.inf. error code 0x2 at line 5767288

My computer has been restarting once each boot-up, and then randomly restarts approximately once an hour, without any apparent precipitatng cause. It may restart when the computer is sitting or when I close a page or start a program, or it may happen while I'm typing this message. It always...

2 computers, win 98 SE just getting each computer to see the web is complicated as it holds onto one IP and ignores the other, until this is changed by pwr down and disconnect to sw to the other IP. i figured that a hub would solve this problem and just plug in the modem output to the input of...

I am having problems. All my Windows 98SE windows do not show up in alphabetic name order, even when I set up my Windows to be "Like current folder" in Folder Option. How can I get this to work? -- Y.

Hi, is it possible to change a setting to get quickview to open in a maximized window? I have tried maximizing then closing then reopening, but it defaults to a small size. Is there something in the registry that I can change to alter this? Also similar question for notepad app

I have this program "Power DVD' on each hd where i have win98se on one and xp the other. It works just fine in win98, but i keep getting an error in xp. Now, I signed on aol with my win98 version and clicked on the XP version from the other drive...it works. I reinstalled the program in xp and...

I would like to know how can I check the connection speed,and,how can I improve it.That why I'm far from the connection speed that the provider has declared. Thank you

Ok, let me explain myself before telling me that I'm just plain stupid. So, here's the situation. I have a customer that's looking to operate on old version of digitizing software. The software was designed to run on Windows 98. Here's the issue: when attempting to install Windows 98 on...