leon writes yes before the formating and writing of the startup files a floppy disk will work however after trying on a floppy when double clicking to see what was written or trying to format results in a frozen screen... i recently had to replace my floppy drive cuz it was doomed for the...

hi all here, is a question! i want to create a startup disk, now im using win 98 first edition i go to control panel, add and remove programs click on the start up disk tab, insert floppy, click on button to make disk it proceeds 30secs later my computer has crashed! never had this prob...

hi all here, is a question! i want to create a startup disk, now im using win 98 first edition i go to control panel, add and remove programs click on the start up disk tab, insert floppy, click on button to make disk it proceeds 30secs later my computer has crashed! never had this prob...

A neighbour bought a new system recently with XP installed and tells me that he can't install 98 (on a partition) because his new mobo doesn't have the correct drivers. Is this often the case? I want to upgrade my hardware and continue to use WIN98se. TIA Gilbert

Installing a new printer. Final step to re-start resulted in error: while initializing device ISO. Now Windows only opens in safe mode, has a "ghost" drive B, no Cd, CD/RW, Zip dirve showing in My Computer. Installed additional memory and recognized by system - did not cure memory...

I have been getting abends in my control panel, printer panel, and My Computer. The abends have been coming from kernel32.dll. Following advice from another thread, I attempted to defrag the disk, but because of Windows errors, it was unable to complete. I then started to reinstall Windows from...

Installing a new printer. Final step to re-start resulted in error: while initializing device ISO. Now Windows only opens in safe mode, has a "ghost" drive B, no Cd, CD/RW, Zip dirve showing in My Computer. Installed additional memory and recognized by system - did not cure memory allocation...

Lately, I'm frequently getting a message that there is not enough free memory to run my programs. I've added no new programs lately. Is there any way to "clean-up" memory or to decipher this problem? Bob Griendling

I am running Windows 98se. I enter a lot of contests online, out of about 180 daily contests, about 19 contest pages will not let me load. I get a “cannot find server error�, though these 19 pages seem to be available to a lot of my friends. I have cleaned out temp files, adjusted my browser...

I can connect to the internet but none of the web pages will display. I have a current Mcafee scan system and don't detect any viruses. I have also tried spybot search and destroy what could be wrong?

Hello, Although I fixed the long pause problem while using Properties in Explorer on large files, I have noticed another small problem after upgrading from FE to SE. While using SE Explorer, inside ANY lowest hierarchical subfolder (deepest) and I click the minus (-) sign of the folder...

Hello, Although I fixed the long pause problem while using Properties in Explorer on large files, I have noticed another small problem after upgrading from FE to SE. While using SE Explorer, inside ANY lowest hierarchical subfolder (deepest) and I click the minus (-) sign of the folder...

Hello, Although I fixed the long pause problem while using Properties in Explorer on large files, I have noticed another small problem after upgrading from FE to SE. While using SE Explorer, inside ANY lowest hierarchical subfolder (deepest) and I click the minus (-) sign of the folder...

Hello, Although I fixed the long pause problem while using Properties in Explorer on large files, I have noticed another small problem after upgrading from FE to SE. While using SE Explorer, inside ANY lowest hierarchical subfolder (deepest) and I click the minus (-) sign of the folder...

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Running Windows 98SE and cannot hear any sounds pc is supposed to make. eg. no annoying windows sounds,also no music or game sounds. However can listen to music if i play direct from cd player through basic media player. Have uninstalled and re installed Current Winamp and windows Media player9...

Hi My scandisk (win98se) does not start on boot when I do an "illegal" shutdown. In msdos.sys, the line Autoscan is already enabled, but scandisk does not start... Any ideas??? Plz help!!

When I install InstMsiA.exe (version 2.0.2600.2) the windows installer for win98, it affects explorer.exe. When I right click a file to examine its properties it copies the entire file into the temp directory displays the properties sheet and then deletes the tempory file. You can only spot...

dont know what happen today. on the desktop page, it will automatically appear the this box "find all files", one after another without been prompted to do so. anybody knows why is it s? thee is alos a box saying "provides a place for u to type all or part of the name of the files u want to...

My DVD drives will not see the folder: VIDEO_TS and it's file extensions of *.BUT, *.IFO, *.VOB written to a DVD-R, instead I see one ..CDA file. On the rare times it has read correctly and played the video files, I copied some of the files to my C, D, and E hard drives to see if I could see and...