I sometimes get an icon on my desktop that is an "Open With..." shortcut with a filename to open of "~". (I call it "Open With..." It's a standard icon of a sheet of paper folded over on one corner with a Windows symbol on the paper. When I right-click it, the "Open With..." tool comes up. When...

I've installed Win98SE on an HP Pavilion A656X computer, ASUS A7V8X-LA (Kelut) motherboard. I have an external serial Diamond Supra 56e Pro modem on the onboard COM1 socket. I use it in both DOS and Windows. Here is the problem, which I've never had with my previous ISA modems: The...

A lot of printers now have a network port so that they can sit directly on a LAN without the need of a PC. I have these set up on Win98 and they work fine from Windows programs, but not from DOS software. Does anyone know how to print from a DOS program to a printer in this fashion?

Is there a program available that will display, in real time, the amount of RAM (in MB) in use? It would be handy if the displayed amount appeared in the System Tray and was active all of the time. Paul

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Download_Area/ATW_Library/Windows _Misc/Win___9-Incompatible_version_of_the_RPC_stub_error.pdf It's a 2 page 70KB PDF file. The first page, explaining /why/ this happens is worth it even if you still use a 9600 modem. Absolutely hilarious - yet, sad. Good old...

(Sory to those who've seen this before, but if there were any answers, I missed them.) I have two W98SElite systems: a 2.4G desktop, and a 450M laptop. On the whole, the laptop is much more stable (and no, I really don't want to reload/reinstall - they are both after years of configuration, and...

A problem recently developed with "Save As" dialog boxes: the directories appear in reverse chronological order, not alphabetical order. I know how to get them back into alphabetical order (by clicking on the "details" button, then on the name column heading, but it doesn't stick. Next time I open...

When using Office (97), how can I get the "Save As" dialog box to default to either "Desktop" or, better yet, the last saved location, rather than "My Documents"?

Hi everyone, as some of you might know, the Windows 98 "Save As..." dialog box, besides being too small, clumsy, etc., has one annoying behavior. It lets you double-click through a folder shortcut, while replacing the name of the file to be saved with the name of that shortcut. (The next...

All of a sudden my posts are being relegated to the Outbox and waiting either for a manual Send/Receive or the every-five-minutes global Send/Receive I have set up. IOW, "Send messages immediately" doesn't. I've toggled the appropriate switch in Options, Send tab, with no luck. I've never seen...

How do I get the email launch command in the context menu (Send To) to work again? Currently, when I click the email link, say when a desktop jpg is selected, nothing happens. I recently upgraded my email program (Thunderbird) and I think that was the culprit, not sure.

Hi, I have a NEC desktop computer (1999) with Win98se. This has two physical HDDs (my modification), an internal "Master" HDD and a removable drawer for a "Slave" HDD. Note: I couldn't get this two HDD system to "work" using CS (cable select). I would like to add a 2 pole switch in...

I downloaded Norton Internet Security 2005 on my daughter's Compaq with Windows 98, IE 6.0.2800.1106CO, SP1. When I tried to install it, I got an error message "Installation has failed. Would you like to try again?" Part of Symantec's fix is to download their "Norton Removal Tool" which I...

This is the extension of my post "Program without a name". Besides staring at what happens with File monitor, Process Explorer and Registry monitor until my eyes watered, I tried the following to resolve the problem: -Removed all items tagged by Adaware -Scanned with McAfee for viruses -Installed...

I need help! Every time I start my computer a message pops up for Microsoft explorer saying "this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." This happens when my background pops up but before my icons do. I can not access anything on my computer. All of the other web...

I think this started after the last win98/IE updates. When I open, let's say, "My Documents", View as Web Page shows nothing but the little icons that come up when pictures won't load. This is the same in any opened file. IE won't show some pictures. Same icons show up in a blank box. Yahoo is...

Hello everyone, i am totally new to all this and am already experiencing a problem with windows 98. On loading i sometimes get 'error starting the IPHLPAPI.DLL file cannot start' and i don't understand this. Could someone kindly help me with this matter to correct this error please. Also why do...

I have another question from one of our senior members that I cannot find the solution to, perhaps someone here may be able to help or direct me to where I may be able to get the solution. " I cannot 'save too disk' an attachment from Yahoo emails. It allows me to 'open from this location' and can...

Hi, I have a Toshiba laptop (AMD chip) satelite 2540. Lately it got very slow especially at start up, I defragged it - still the same Formatted the hard drive & Re-installed the Toshiba utelities which include Windows 98, I haven't installed any software on it - still the same, I now only put...

Anybody?: I've tried "Saincase"'s solution to no avail on this machine. After reviewing the above (with a screen shot) the Microsoft tech suggested I simply rename the Windows Update folder...again with no solution. The URL my computer goes to...