What are the absolutely required programs for start-up? When I run MSCONFIG the Startup tab reveals a good many programs, many with esoteric names. Which are, if any, required? Thanks

When I start computer it comes on,goes to screen with name etc on it then goes to black screen with all the information on it and it freezes there.I have to reboot it about 6 times before it will come on ,then it goes to black screens a couple of times telling me to "press enter when ready" It...

Hello, When I start my Windows 98 Second Edition into MS-DOS only, or use an MS-DOS session inside Windows, it reports my total amount of upper memory as only 111k. I have DOS=HIGH,UMB, DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS and DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS in my CONFIG.SYS, and any other TSRs (DISPLAY.SYS and...

We have a Windows 98 network. Over one lunchtime (no power failure or any obvious reason) we seem to have lost facility for copying and pasting to or from any local drive (e.g. floppy disk/ cdr/ pen drive or C:) on any workstation, but can still copy and paste from drives on the network. The...

My computer is W98SE with 256 Ram, 55O mHz Athlon processor. It is exeedingly slow, hangs up often. I checked:" Control Panel - System Properties - Performance " and found that drive C, my harddrive, is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system, as well did the Virtual Memory. It was further...

I am having problems accessing websites. Also my computer will not allow me to sign into my MSN account. First of all I am getting an error message when I start up my compurter stating "Error loading powrprof.dll" "One of the library file needed to run the application cannot be found" Then I...

Shutting down things on the task bar is not all you have to do. You have to use Ctrl-Alt-Del followed by Page Down held until you get to the bottom of the MODULE list and then do a End task until everything is out of this box (repeated CTRL-Alt-Dels)EXCEPT Explorer to free up the memory. This...

I have a new ADOMAX Wheel Mouse (PS/2) and no matter what I try to change, the mouse insists on reacting to a single stroke on the left mouse button as a double click. This only happens on W98 - not WXP (with same mouse). Any suggestions? Thanks

Re-installed windows after fixing up some problems in my home computer, and this is what is still unresolved: - at Win startup and before logo shows on screen, it asks "press F1 to continue, DEL to enter setup". Never did this before. - it shows "floppy disk(s) fail (40)", but drive A seems to...

How do I get my computer (Window 98SE) out of the soft mode, so I get a clear picture?

Whenever I start my computer it gets to a point and then something comes up that says some type of file of some type has been deleted and this part is still in it... it is called ...WOL558.VXD and says to either install the association to it or delete it, but I have no idea what it is. Then it...

HI,, yesterday I did receive some help from someone in trying to delete bxxs5.dll file.. I went into the registry as instructed, and and found the file HKeyLocal Machine, Software/Windows/Run and deleted the file. I noted the location where it was filed. Rundl32.exe.c/Windows, so I went to...

Would someone tell me how to install "windows messenger" in windows 98? If I remember correctly, this is a seperate "window messenger" and has nothing to do with microsoft messenger or aol messenger. I believe it is responsible for ads and windwos popping up and whatnot, and I seem to remember...

When I shut the computer down, the HDD lite stays on and the computer continues humming, like it is running. What does HDD stand for? Thanks.

A couple of thoughts: Windows 98 is very old, not supported any longer even by Microsoft and doesn't play well with a number of newer files. I checked my copy of the MFC42.dll file and it's dated 2001. (I'm running Windows XP Home edition on my home computer and XP Pro on my laptop.) An invalid...

i was using my computer, offline, and my mouse quit working. I bought a new mouse connected it and when i boot up i get a message saying mouse was not detected. my keyboard functions were not working either. i got another keyboard and i am having same result. i have no feyboard functions. i...

I have Win 98se. In running "Scan Disk", it said I had a duplicate folder and to find it and rename it. I did a find with this info and nothing came back. Can anyone tell me what folder Scan Disk is referring to and how to rename it. My computer is running so slow I'm afraid it's going to...

Hi , the last few days upon start up,,, I have clicked misconfig, to see what was checked,,, and in two places I have TV Media,, which I don't have any Idea how they got there,, so I found the folder in my C drive to try to delete it ,, but it was saying I needed a disk copywrite,, so I have...

I'm running a clone with 98SE. Have plenty of RAM and plenty of HD space. Processor is an AMD K-6. Have had it about 4 years. I installed a CD burner about 2 weeks ago which worked fine. When I turned the PC on today it gave me an error message of "hard drive failure" on both of my hard drives...

I am running Win98SE,500Mhz Celeron,196Mb memory,60GB (C),20GB(D) and 20GB(E) drives. I have Panda Internet Security,Spybot and Adaware6 installed,I am on BT Broadband (1MHZ) and use the BT/Yahoo software via IE6.1. Almost everyday Spybot finds a DSO Exploit as follows :- H_Key...