I am using 98SE. For the last couple of weeks, my computer is running really slow, and it will take a few minutes to open a file. I have run the spybot, disk cleanup and no help at all. I will try disk defrag later today. I want to know what other tricks I can use to speed up my PC. I am really...

I have a P2 with win98. I uninstall a program that was pushed to my computer via a web site and restarted the computer. Now I get the following error msg. "Explorer: The program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown." When I click on Details I get, "Explorer caused an invalid...

for the last several days I have not been able to use the run command from the start menu - it appears then disappears. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks G

My os is Win98SE. Some time ago I installed a game; then I uninstalled it but here is its present: in the Control Panel it changed the standard Windows icon of the folder C/Windows/System with its own. What can I do to restore the standard Windows icon? (the OS was already installed on the PC so...

Bit of a basic question, but how would someone change the default program used to open a particular file type in Windows 98? (I'm used to doing it in XP, but need to advise a friend who's running 98). Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

My Intel Celeron 400 MHz computer with 128 MB of RAM + a dual-boot operating system with Windows 98 and Windows For Workgroups 3.11 has now permanently been rendered useless. When I was working in Windows 98, the computer screen all of a sudden went blank. I didn't change any settings,...

I don't know what happened but I lost my F drive. It doesn't show up in my computer or Nero my burning program The drive is a CD-R. I can't even open it.

I've lost my dial-up access on WIN98SE. When I click on the dial-up icon I get the error message: "This program has performed and illegal operation and will be shut down. If problems persist, contact the program vendor." Of course I thought I'd try here first. Detail display is "RUNDLL32 has...

Something got into my system. Using Spybot and Ad-Aware I got rid of it but not before it changed the Start Menu. There is no longer a shut Down command on the Start Menu, just Log-Off. I have to shut off the computer to shut down. When I go back in then I have to wait for a disk scan. Do you...

If my PC boots into Win98SE, it aften freezes when desktop icons are clickes, or the start button stays depresed and frozen. I've tried Spybot and Adaware, I use Nortons 2004. I cannot open into Control Panel at all to remove programmes, and a reboot is the only option. When I do the 3 fingered...

I go to turn on my pc, and then screen doesn't turn on. Then the computer starts to beep at me. It's not the monitor (I tried my PC hooked up to a different monitor). I am running Windows 98, with a Pentium 2, 64 mb ram, and an ATI3D Rage Pro Turbo AGP graphics card. In the PCI slots i have a...

Is there an all-in-one patch that I can download to bring Win98SE up-to-date? Thanks, Fred

W98. Person noticed memory only showing 32 instead of 64. Took out memory & reinserted. Now when hit power button, it won't stop beeping & nothing will come up on the monitor. Tried putting in each memory stick by itself in different slots, but didn't help. They are being properly seated. Any...

How do I configure Internet Explorer browser to accept cookies nad java script?

windows 98 is not on the add/remove window.i need to reinstall the program to get my pc back up to speed. any help would be great. thanks in advance!

When I try to access any files stored in Microsoft Word, or open the Word application, my Win98 machine freezes up with messages about RUNNING DANGEROUSLY LOW ON MEMORY even though I am not running any other programs and the only way I can turn the machine off is with the power button. All other...

Can't seem to open Windows Media Player anymore. Getting message that "NTDLL.DLL:NtOpenProcessToken" and don't know how to fix this. This is on a Windows 98 system. Any help would be appreciated and plz e-mail me @: (instead of my hotmail addie). Thanx, DS

I have original CD can I reinstall without losing documents and other programs. Thank you so much.

Win 98SE system. Do not ask. My wife renamed Iexplore.exe to Iexplore.old then back to Iexplore.exe. Now when she tries to run IE from the desktop there is a message that the file is not associated with a program. OK. My Computer-View-Folder Options. After that I am lost. I do not have the...

How do you clear the history in the "Find" files and folders" feature? YOu can clear Google search history and the internet explorer history; how about clearing the "Find: files and folders" search history?