Folks; Is there a way to keep my designated Homepage invokable per the usual commands, without loading it as part of the startup regimen? I know I've seen references to this on the site, but nothing shows up for it on my "Find" search. Also; if anyone has experience with a 'wetware' fix for the...

when i save a file from file menu-save as command my pc is not working. instead a blue color screen comes bitu

I have recenly upgraded from 98 First edition to 98SE and installed all of the critical updates from Microsoft. Since doing that, suddenly many old programs that I thought were previously uninstalled have reappeared in my Start menu but NOT in the Add/Remove programs list. How do I safely...

My Norton Antivirus notifies me that I have Adware Gator in file HDPlugin1018.dll The delete within this program fails & I downloaded Fix Gator from their website, but it says I have NO THREAT on my computer. Running SpyBot also says "it is not there". This file is "supposed" to be located...

Hi all, (Running OS in RAM is below this Trick for those that have enough RAM to do it, but if not, there another way to Speed it up by adding a small HD that I hope will be of help those with small RAMs.) * OS on a small HD all by itself. * I you crash a lot and have to format you HD often, try...

Is there a utility to disable Windows Messenger in Win 98? Every site I've Googled says it can't be done.

On a Windows 98SE system, after IE6SP1 was installed, the OS freeze for about 1 minute after deleting many files on Windows Explorer. This problem was noted on many different configurations and even on Windows ME. Does anyone know a way to solve this? Regards,

Can somebody tell me what newsgroup is used for Optical Character Recognition questions/problems? Thanks for any help. Jack

I just got a new computer with WinXP on it. I want to transfer files over a LAN to the new computer from a computer with Win98SE on it. Everything goes OK, except I can't get to the Program Files over the LAN from the computer with Win98SE. I get an "Access Denied" error when I try to do...

Win 98. For a week my on screen cursor jumps back and forth super fast. Looks like it"s changing from a point to the hour glass thing. Checked for spyware et. et. , and still the same. Any help ??. Thanks.

When I would open the browser, the Dial-up Connection used to come up, and then I would click Connect to call my ISP. I should have done something, however, because now the Dial-up Connection starts dialing automatically. How can I restore things as they were? -Eustace

i have a windows 98 laptop and i need to password it. my mom has used a startup password but i dont know hoow to do it :( plese hep me!

When I connect my HP camera via USB to computer I get "A fatal exception has occurred at 0028:FFOD46 in VXD usbhub(05)". plus "00000A25. current application will terminate" Also I get the same response when I try to back up my PDA Palm Pilot. Can anyone tell me what to do? Your help will be...

1. My computer goes to the screen saver by does not go on standby. I have tried to reset the settings but it doesn't work or works once and then goes back to screen saver. 2. My volume controlbuttons don't work. I have to use the volume control icon in the task bar. If I go into programs and select...

How do I recover from 'ipcfgdll.dll' cannot start, please check file to determine the problem. It is a friends pc, whose boy though he might move some files, I seem to have it all back as it was, excext this problem? I have already used sfc to replace the file 'ipcfgdll.dll' even though it wasn't...

Recently i used reglceaner and erased most of my reg files, it stoped my pc from running practicly anything except for internet explorer and some media files, i dont want to reformat it cuz i would lose lots of info. is there any way to fix it? ps:i have windows Me i cant open/reinstall/unistall...

Hi guys from 10 days,all days i have a windows advice of a new available update ,I go to Windows update and it show me always a new update KB837009. I have downloaded 10 times these update and if i look on the installation history i have these 10 times downloads like ok . When i switch of the PC...

hello, when i change appearance - scheme in display properties the computer does not responds. bitu

Hello. I have just re-formatted my HD (20GB WD) and re-installed Win 98SE using 1.2GHz AMD Athlon CPU with 256 MB PC-133 SDRAM. and am unable to connect to the internet to run Windows Update on my machine. I have waited several minutes and the progress bar shows about 1/4 in of blue. If I wait long...

A friend of mine brought her neighbor's computer to me to fix. Well, so far I've removed over 60 viruses and 300 spywares. I've run system file checker and every other utility I know to run. It still has terrible problems. It's been so long since I ran Win.98 that I'm struggling a little here. ...