Hi all, hopefully posting this to several groups isn't a problem. My parents have an old dell from maybe 6 years ago, and their display recently started getting vertical lines through it, so I assumed that the video card had gone. I got a new one and threw it in (a better card than the one they...

A friend's husband was where he shouldn't have been on the net. There is no longer a dial up connection set to use. You can not set up a new dial up or use the Internet Wizard to set up an internet connection. In the add remove programs is listed %DosHereName% but it can't be uninstalled. A search...

I'm confused with the language being used in the newsgroups about whether or not 891711 is supposed to show in STARTUP as a checked item and if it should show listed in ctrl-alt-del. I'm using W98SE and had installed the original which caused me problems so I uninstalled it. It showed in STARTUP...

I have XP and have reinstalled the OS a few times. with minimal help from Dell A friend of mine just took over a computer from someone that has never had the OS reinstalled. 6 years old. It is my understanding that it is good to do every once in a while is that correct? Anyway, how do I do it? ...

This is Dan W. who stupid f___ing hackers tried to shut me down with their so called smarts --- ended up interupting LinkSyS router signal, locked me out of my own settings, and proved my point to Microsoft that Windows XP SP2 is not secure. These people hacked through the router, locked me out...

"Brad" wrote in message ... Hi, I assume that the default browser (example: IE or Netscape) is stored in the registry. If that is correct, how do I recognize that entry in the registry after I export the registry to a text...

While connected to my remote unix server though an emulation program (static ip dsl), it hangs if keystrokes are not made within a certain period of time. Otherwise, it is fine if communication is made. I have to disconnect and re-connect, and everything is fine, as long as keyboard activity is...

I always wondered about the settings in Flash Player.So read this article and check out your settings,especially if you have a microphone or camera installed.Some one may be spying on you. http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/160400719

Hello. I'm posting this question in this group because I think it may be a Windows 98SE file association issue. I noticed when I go to a particular web site using Internet Explorer 6, (I think the offender the last time was www.mobilemag.com), I briefly see the Acrobat Reader 4 (that's the...

Finally, someone went looking for the obvious. 'anon', seems you da man. regards jane

My daughter's laptop (out of the blue she says) suddenly forces her to start-up in safe mode. I have had her hold down the F8 key and then select "normal" but the machine still starts in safe mode. She has also tried going into msconfig and restoring the back up but to no avail. She's 6 hours...

Microsoft has received reports about issues with KB891711 on Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME. At this point, we have been able to confirm these reports and are currently working on a resolution. Please note that by uninstalling the current update, the machine will return to a vulnerable...

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:27:45 -0600, Me & wrote: Find yourself a copy of Eudora 3.0.5 (very old). It's text only email. If there are pictures included you can choose to view them, but no html email. That's all I run. I hate html in my email. You can still download it from Eudora, but I...

Hello, I am dealing with a computer that had the I-Worm.Zafi.b virus I was able to clear the infection and it was running fine, I had rebooted the computer at least four times. Now after it plays the start up music a message pops up that says "Explorer has unexpectedly quit". I have tried starting...

I used Windows 98se years ago and I seem to remember some kind of patch that fixed Windows shutdown problem. Does anyone know if this patch is still available? It fixed the problem right away. I have no idea where to find this patch or what the name of the file is. Thanks Nancy

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with windows 98 and some how I am missing Registry or system.INI when booting up my laptop which does not start windows properly. I can not reconfigure my laptop because my dvd is not reading the disk so I can not retrieve this from the fisk itself. Is there...

I have windows media, quicktime and real on my system and just lately my recent downloads have been freezing and playing still images with garbled sound. My old downloads seem fine.

Sorry! Forget Problem 2 in my previous post! Have just remembered it should be "msconfig" not what I said! Sorry again - (retires with egg all over face) PeterO

My old Win98SE machine has frozen up one too many times, and gotten the "power-off" treatment one too many times (apparently) and now the graphic-interface boots up, but I just get the mouse cursor and the Desktop background color -- no Taskbar, no Icons, no other evidence of a Windows interface...

Just installed a webcam, worked fine. Rebooted after install etc everything fine. Next time computer booted up, new hardware detected "Microsoft TV/Video Adapter" which installed. Internet now no longer works, but pinging IPs in DOS does. Suggests only a DNS problem. I've had this problem...