I reinstalled win 98 se on my laptop, everything works fine but i cant get the close program dialogue box when i use alt-ctrl-del....can someone help me get this on the computer...thanks

Does anybody Know what Mpblbx.exe is I get error messages and when I go to control, alt, delete it almost always says Mpblbx is not responding. I found Mpblbx.exe in the system folder in the windows folder. It shows it in my startup items in the system config utility. And if I double click on the...

I recently had to replace my harddrive on my dell desktop and so I'm starting over from scratch. I have the original bootdisk but only a copy of my 98se cd (i have the other, but its scratched beyond imagine). Anyway, I've installed the harddrive successfully (using the western digital software)...

My secondary system is still running on Win95. Yesterday at startup, it said to insert a bootable media in the appropriate drive. I did that, using my up-to-date 95/98 system startup disk. At A:/ prompt, I changed to C: drive, but got the message to insert disk 2 into cd-rom drive. (The...

After a reinstallation of Windows 98, I can't get the sound to work. I'm pretty sure it isn't a hardware specific issue; all the speakers seemed to be hooked up correctly. But my sound card simply doesn't show up in the Control Panel under the Add New Hardware section. I've tried installing...

I recall reading somewhere that Windows 98 (original verson) cannot be installed on systems with large disk drive sizes. However, I cannot remember where I read this, nor can I find the reference again. I want to install Win98 on a dual boot PC along with XP Home. That way I can run Office97 Pro...

I have received .hlp help file with a software. On opening it, the Help-Version reads, Microsoft Windows Help 4.10.1998, Version. The problem is that mouse scroll wheel does not work in it in win98se. I am not aware whether it works or not in other os. How to make mouse scroll wheel work in .hlp...

How do I add new icons that can be accessed when I click on "change icon"? Thank you very much to whomever can tell me. Candy

Can you tell me if you been able to slove this problem because I have the same. What did you do? primemate PattyL Wrote: If you are dual booting with a system that recognizes more RAM than Win98, you can probably use the MaxPhysPage line to limit the amount of memory

I've got a Toshiba Libretto 100CT laptop (love those sub-notebooks :) ), it's in it's original state exept for the harddrive, i've put a 40GB replacement in. I haven't got a floppy or a CD-romdrive with it, so to install windows i put the harddrive in a other laptop, formattet the drive there...

Hi all Three months ago we had a young female relative come and live with us for an extended period. Rather than let her get her hands on my machine, and as her only needs are to check her email, I retrieved an old laptop from the cupboard and reinstalled W98 on it. I also retrieved an old hub,...

Search on Google.com and you can find free download sites such as: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?winsta -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info:

This is in a friends machine. She had downloaded Mcafee from the ISP's site and had some things go wrong. (don't ask me I don't know) Based on what happened she decided to reinstall the operating system. After two attempt she called for help. She says she has lost the desktop. "What do you get?" I...

Win 98 on a Dell XPS T500 The DVD ejects, tray won't remain in more than a few blinks of the light then pops open. Drivers reinstalled, system claims alls good, I hoping one of you have solved this before and can tell me where to begin. Thanks, -- Charlie B

I recently loaded 98SE on a computer previously running ME and now I need 3 drivers for PCI devices(serial controller, ethernet controller and muilti-media audio) Where do I get these and how do I install them? Thanks for any help, Mari

I have an old Dell Dimension, 400 mhz. It has Windows 98 installed, with all but a couple of available updates installed. At least, I hope they've installed correctly. :-) I have have a second parallel port card that came with my old Epson Scanner. 5 years ago, when I installed the parallel...

"Wee Peem" wrote in message ... I have got a message up when starting the computer saying boot disk failure. Checking in the BIOS neither hard drives are shown. Even when I try to auto detect them...nothing...

My problem matches the one discussed 6/10/2005 on this forum, question posed by Andrew Boone, replied to by Glenn Ventura, Bill Watt, Ben Myers. The computer boots to the point of showing the desktop with no icons or taskbar, a setup wizard window appears wanting my name, business, then I must...

While I'm here, I have a question. Sorry if this isn't the right place. I am currently subscribed to two newsgroups, but I have only this one synchronized. How do I get only this one to download new messages. I thought I unsynchronized the other one, but I want to keep the messages pertaining...

I've just finshed a new installation on a formatted HDD, on 1st boot the setup returns to the hardware configuration screen and hangs on the PnP configuration with the following error, 0E eception at address 0028:C0008997 VxD --- PC also hangs on booting into safe mode I've googled the error to...