Thankyou for the Info about FAT32. And would Compressing the Hard Drive be the best thing to do? http://www.waynescomputerworld.com/cleaninstall.html] Thanks.

went somewhere else, apologies.

I have just fixed some errors on my hard drive. I am attempting to reinstall windows 98 2nd ed.I get to the point where I have created a startup disk and begin the copying Win 98 files to my computer when I get the following: Generic installer error Message SU99405 UpdateInis=processing...

whenever i try to start my win98se the windows makes it to the opening backdrop with the message "explorer, this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down". the details say " explorer caused an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe at 0197:00401f31. My win98 startup disk...

I know enough to be dangerous, and proved it when I corrupted my Win98. I need to reinstall from MS-DOS as my Windows will not load - locks up at Explorer.exe ("illegal operation, will shut down"). Any help, greatly appreciated.

Can Windows 98SE be re-installed over itself if I suspect I have some corrupted files?

Thankyou Ron for giving me info to know if I can have more than one OS(Operating System)!!!! http://www.waynescomputerworld.com/cleaninstall.html] Thanks. C

Trying to install Win 98SE on a Soltek SL-75FRN2 MOBO w/ nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, AMD Athlon XP 2500 Barton CPU overclocked to 3200, 512 Meg Dual Channel DDR RAM. Setup stops with the error: Standard Mode: Fault outside MS-DOS Extender EC=0000 CS=0397 IP=281E AX=8080 BX=0080 CX=8080...

trying to install windows 98 after formating drive, then it says remove drives or other media, what should i do

Hello, can anyone help me? My daughter deleted some stuff on my computer and now I cant get past the set up of windows 98. I dont have my product key number and dont know how to get it. Can someone please help me.

What does FAT32 even do for the computer??? C

It was a winding path but with your help I got it resolved and IE is working correctly now. Had to boot into DOS mode to get the index.dat deleted, as you suggested. Then was able to move the win/temp/temp-internet-files to another location. This was the temp-internet-file that everything was...

I have acquired a computer (Dell L733r). I nuked it and installed W98SE. Now when I go to Display Properties | Settings, all I can get is 640x480 at 16 colors. It says it's using Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA). I do not have any support disks that may have originally come with the computer....

On my Windows98 SE when I tried to compress my 800MB hard drive it said It can't becouse it Is allready FAT32. What can I do??? C

Will windows98 SE work one a mother board that has 4GB of RAM MEMORY and a 3.00GHz CPU(prosseser)and with 2 300GB Hard drives and 2 floppy drives and 1 CD-RW Drive and a DVD drive????

I have a bootable Win98 OS cd without the key that goes along with it.(So that is doing me ABSOLUTELY no good) I also have a 98 bootdisk and a non-bootable Win98 cd. I know that with Nero (and other methods) there is a way to make a bootable cd as long as you have a burner and a blank CD-R. Now I...

2 down and 1 to go. How will I find my modems name?? I looked on there and on the micro chip it says intel. Would that be the compenies name of the modem? And would the manafacturs name be on the micro chips??? Oh and this info might help you help me: It came out of an old ACER PC that had...

Greetings: Recently, my folders have been defaulting to sorting by last used rather than alphebetical order which was the previous default. It is especially annoying when I open a program like word, and have to do a "View", "Arrange Icons" "By Name". Is there a registry setting that I need to...

I don't suppose anyone can answer this but I seem to miss the greater part (but not all) of Ron Badour's postings. I know, from others' quotes, that he is posting regularly and I do see a small number of those posts but there are many that don't show up. As far as I can tell, I'm not missing any...

I LOOKED ON THE SOUND CARD. I LOOKED ON THE MODEM. I LOOKED IT UP WITH THE FCC RULE CODE(ON http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/help.html#drivers)BUT NO LUCK AT ALL. Is there ANY OTHER WAY AND PLUSE MY MODEM,Sound CARD,and MONITER ADAPTER ARE MADE BEFOR 1995. The modem came out of a Windows 3.1 computer...