Advice requested trouble-shooting total lack of sound in a 2-year-old 2.2 GHz system under Win98SE. The system is set to play the MS arpeggio wave on boot. 1. Two weeks ago the sound system started buzzing a few seconds after boot. 2. Yesterday sound played OK as usual (Control Panel/ Sounds,...

Hi all, I am loading WinInet.dll since wininet.lib is included in my project, but there are 2 versions of this lib, one in XP and an old one for ie 5.0. The old one only has only a call to InternetSetCookie() as the new one has both InternetSetCookie() and When the programs starts, before I can...

hi, well heres the scoop......i had windows 98se on me computer with no problems....decided to upgrade to windows xp.......so i reformatted then upgraded, again no problems, except i noticed that my lil' ol 'puter just hasn't got the umph it needs to run the xp, it runs so boggedly......so decided...

Had a program that was giving me an error regarding kernel32.dll. So I thought to delete the current kernel and replace it will one from the WEB. After the Downloading, I copied the new kernel32 to c:\ drive (via explorer). Then in the DOS prompt I used this instruction: Copy c:\kernel32.dll...

I needed to add a sound card (when the speaker circuit failed in the ASUS motherboard (Sound on Board) and earlier trials showed I needed 24-bit circuitry. (A cheap 16-bit card worked OK but with unacceptable quality for editing in Magix Audio Cleaner.) Creative Labs web site has abundant detail,...

Hi one and all! I have been watching web music and news videos, with pictures and sound. All of a sudden, the sound portion stopped. Locally, I can still play music from my CDs. That means my wire and loud speakers are in working order. What did go wrong? I have not done anything to my...

I am working on my neighbours computer which has windows 98. Because computer has minimum memory I have closed most of the start up items and only have his AVG anti virus and volume control in the startup menu. Should I also tick the above windows patch ????? or is it automatically...

Hi, I am at my wits end. My friend's old Celeron PC stopped working the other week while her daughter was on the internet and she has some valuavble files, not backed up of course. At first it would just stop at the initial logo and beep continuosly, even when trying safe mode. After a few...

I just did a clean install of windows 98 second edition on a freshly formatted hard drive and am now trying to update windows using IE5 at the MS Windows Update web page. I get the Welcome to Windows Update screen, I click on Scan for updates, and then I get a message that Windows Update has...

Ok people, I have an intel d915gav motherboard, and an 8Gb harddisk (fat32) (not the machine I'm using now. I know windows 98 doesn't like hyper threading, so I've disabled that in the bios. I've tried to get windows 98 to install on it, and this is how it's ended up: 1st problem was it...

Hi, I almost made it through a Win98SE setup after 3 days of fighting with it. I downloaded the floppy files from bootdisk.com and put them before the Win98SE files and burned a CD from Nero 6. This time all proceeded fairly well, but when it got to the screen where you could pick the type of...

HI, I just got a newish used hard drive and searched all over the Net for how to freshly install my Windows 98SE and followed all the directions but it won't do the setup from the CD part. I downloaded the files from bootdisk.com ( excellent source by the way), and burned the files from my Windows,...

Weird anomalies when I attempted to reinstal (after juggling PCI cards when sound on board failed so I had to buy a sound card) and got into a real tangle 1. On this 2.8 GHz machine I encountered the notorious NDIS error at SETUP's first reboot. This was cured two years ago simply by...

I know this has got to have been answered before, but I just can't seem to find the answer. I had a client call and ask about getting windows 98 and windows 2000 CDs. She has the Auth Keys/Codes on the Machines. She wants to reinstall windows on these machines but can not because the CDs have...

Does anyone have any thoughts as to why Disk Defrag only works in Safe Mode on my PC? Is there some registry setting I can change?

When I try to start my computer it gets to the Windows 98 logo and freezes, I start it up in the safe mode and it freezes. Whatever I start it in it freezes up and will not let me go any further, can anyone help ?

I've been trying to get Windows 98 SE onto this box forever. Basically, it's an old sony vaio that had win98 se on it then the hard drive failed. I replaced the hard drive, but of couse didn't have the recovery CDs. So I tried to install win 98 se on it all the normal ways (boot to floppy, run...

I have Win 98SE with User profiles enabled. Recently, I have had problems with the Profiles not working correctly. The most recent occasion was that the PC has to all intents and purposes lost the profile of a particular user. When you logon using the name and password of the user in question,...

My 98SE was working fine and I have visited nothing but well-established public websites so I do not suspect that I have picked up any virus. But today it booted fine for awhile then hung. Subsequently upon reboot I get "BIOS not installed" then "Operating system not found". I can get to the BIOS...

Does anyone know how to set the default font and size for Word Pad? Thank you in advance Eric