Until recently everything on my W98 system behaved normally - but now when I bring up the right-click context menu and select "New" (looking to create a new Shortcut for instance) there is a delay of about a second, then Explorer crashes! No sub-menu items appear... just the hesitation prior to...

I made a stupid mistake today on my old Win98 SE PC. I allowed Windows Update to upgrade DirectX to version 9.0c, and I did not do a backup first. Now when the computer starts up, everything looks fine, I log in with my user name and password, the start bar on the bottom of the screen displays...

I would appreciate any tips. My father has a disability and often accidently hits the right mouse button. Apparently in Windows 98 he was able to specifically disable the right button with out affecting the left button. He as upgraded to Windows XP but apparently the option to disable only the...

My system has been halting alot as of late. About six monthes ago I noticed I had two TELEPHONY icons in my control panel. Both are active ( I can use either one and they mirror each other in content) since i hadn't noticed any performance issues i just let it be. In January a second SYSTEM icon...

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Perviously, I had connectivity to another PCMCIA card. My reason for getting this error is to get my wireless systme working. I have ristalled and uninsatall several times. Each time I get 10038: Socket operation on n0s-socket

Cannot get rid of a Illegal Operation window. I've ran Norton, Spyware, etc. - restarted - but it keep appearing. I've listed below the message in the window. Thanks in advance for any help. Musictec EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module SHELL32.DLL at 0187:7fcb3d96.

Explorer This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor. Explorer caused a stack fault in module SHELL32.DLL at 0167:66805446. I can not open My computer, nor open settings for the control panel. This error message opens...

Greetings. Everytime I boot up windows I get this error message and it keeps appearing until the computer crashes. I would like to know what to do besides re-installing the operative system. Thank you.

Hi there, I seem to be having a problem trying to get the folder list on the LHS of Explorer to remain collapsed. For example, if I expand Windows\System by clicking on the + icon in the folder tree, then try to collapse it again by clicking on the - icon, the folder re-expands. This seems to be...

I recently had some registry errors with win98. Started up and had some corrupted registy entries. I fixed what I could (Install the programs that went missing) but now when I right click my computer and select explore, my folder's tree on the left frame is blank and greyed out. The main frame...

I RECENTLY INSTALLED WIN98 OVER WIN95 AND EVER SINCE THE SYSTEM DOES NOT SHOW THE DESKTOP ICONS, TOOLBAR, ETC JUST THE PUFFY CLOUDS AND BLUE SKY. I'VE GONE TO MICROSOFT SUPPORT FAQ AND FOUND THIS AND TRIED WHAT THEY SAID TO NO AVAIL. CAN ANYBODY HELP?

Upon start up I get the following error message: Explorer: This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down. Explorer caused an illegal page fault in module explorer.exe at 015f:00401f31 Registers eax=00000000 cs=015f etc etc.

I uninstalled an application from the Add/Remove applications item in the control panel named 'SearchAssistant', which apparently seemed like a spyware app. The instant the uninstallation was completed, add/remove programs closed and it never opened. The message displayed on double clicking on it...

Hi, my brother's computer is having a little problem when is shuttingdown he gets the following message in a blue screen: A fatal Exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C02A27A8 in VxD VWIN32(05) + 000012D0 after that the computer does not shutdown but freeze. His computer is a HP Pavilion 8660C with...

When booting up my computer "scandisk encountered a data error while reading the FAT entry for cluster 376832. This error prevents scandisk from fixing this drive". The only option I have is to click "OK". It continues trying to boot but never gets by the windows 98 screen. I don't know where to go...

When i use the file-open dialog in various applications the files are not sorted by extension. how can i change the settings, that the files are automatically sorted by extension, without clicking everytimes on the bar to sort them ? Thanks for hints, Norbert R.

My Win/98 PC has suddenly decided that it can't open .jpg extension files by double clicking, even though it managed to do it for five years. Instead of selecting PhotoEd to view the JPG image, I get the error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this...

My Win/98 PC has suddenly decided that it can't open .jpg extension files by double clicking, even though it managed to do it for five years. Instead of selecting PhotoEd to view the JPG image, I get the error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this...

I need the next files to win 98 so: autoexec.bat and config.sys