I assume you mean entering the BIOS (CMOS). At first bootup, entering the BIOS CMOS Setup requires pressing either the DEL key, or the F10 key or some other combination depending upon your PC make and model. Sometimes the very first startup screen will clue you as to how to enter Setup. After you...

My old win98se system has more or less behaved itself for years. Recently, after a spell of odd system crashes, it refused to boot up in anything other than safe mode. After footering about for ages, I tried a windows re-install over the old installation (not a good idea I know) which did at...

Won't help asking Microsoft as the Product Key is unique to the CD supplied. If the old installation is still operational, you might try entering Control Panel \ System and search for the product key there. Or try Start \ Run \ Regedit and drill down HKEY_Local_Machine \Software \ Microsoft \...

Recently after removing old application not being used the Windows Explorer runs extremely slow. I may have removed a critical file, but I don't know how to check. When I start Explorer (or My Computer) it takes about a minute to open. Once started when I select a...

Greetings; I recently installed an external hard drive (Maxtel OneTouch) to my machine (W98). I partitioned it into 4 drives G-J. It seemed to work fine. A few days after I started loading stuff onto it I noticed that the G drive was not accessible any longer. The next time after I emptied...

I have a machine that's been running Win98SE and Win98 before that for 7-8 years. Well a few days ago it just quit booting. My best guess is that the registry seems to be messed up in some way. The machine WILL boot in Safe Mode and I can see all the files/drives just fine. At this point I really...

Hello! I need sum help. My computer was messing up the other night so i shut it down. Now it wont even restart properly. It goes to restart and wants to do something but then theres a black screen that says IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF. If I turn it off it just does the same thing!! I...

i have had to reformat my old win98 laptop. the prob is i can not find the product key so i can not load win98 again. could you advise me what to do. thank you Russell

I am unable to boot into Win98-SE graphical interface, and I need to restore, using Win98/Veritas backup utility (.qic files.) I can't do that with the Win XP/Veritas backup utility, which uses .bkf files. How can one get and install on Win XP the older Win98/Veritas backup utility which uses .qic...

If I set the language to French(Canadian), the dual stroke characters won't work. The likes of:¸¸C, ´´a, ^^o will make a dual symbol on the first key stroke and then place the character besides it on the second keystroke, instead of below or above the character.. Removing the French language...

Please help! Whenever I start my computer up I get a message System.ini file no longer exists and windows will not work properly. I don't even know what file I got rid of that deleted that file. How do I fix this?

Somehow I have lost the Quick Launch toolbar. When I try to check it in the Toolbar pulldown, it says "Cannot create Toolbar". The Quick Launch folder is still there under C:\\windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer. How can I get it back as a toolbar?

My win 98 installation cd is damaged where do I download the cd??? or apply for a replacement???

I just did a clean reinstall of WIN98-SE. Every time I boot up now, I get an error message: "Windows could not find file 'vnetbios.vxd". Does anyone know how I can extract that file from the WIN98-SE CD and where to put it on the HD? Thanks, CMA

Hi hope somebody can help me. My PC takes forever to load up and every time I shut down the PC i receive an error message " A fatal exception 0E has occured at 0028:C02A27A8 IN VXD VWIN32(05)+000012D0. The current application will be terminated." I then have to shut down PC from mains. Please...

Help! I had to reinstall win98 on desktop from old disk but cant find the product key. Cannot finish setup without it and cannot get into windows guest user to find it. Is there any other way to find it?

Formatted hard drive and receive this message each time I start to run the Win98 setup from the startup disk. Any idea what causes this and how I can get past it??

First use of SiSoft Sandra diagnostic modules reports Notice 224 : SMBIOS/DMI information may be inaccurate. What does this mean? Is it fixable? Is it important? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

Hello, I own a IBM Thinkpad 600e and I am having severe problems booting up the machine on Windows 98. Everytime I attempt to start-up ot displays the following message: 'Error Message: While Initializing Device VKD -- Windows Protection Error -- You Need to Restart Your Computer'. Even in safe it...

Got a garage sale Dell Optiplex with Windows 95 but no disks or docs for a grandchild and bought Windows 98SE instead of upgrade--duh! Wiped out Win95 and can't install 98 using boot disks from my Win ME for Dell 8100 or Win 98 for IBM laptop--duh! duh! What to do?