When rebooting after a lock-up my son mistakenly left a disk in the CD drive. The system ramped the RAM, initialized the keyboard, etc., he got a "Operating System Not Found" message and then nothing. He tried removing the disk and rebooting but no change. Help!

I hope this helps you. I found the above noted .$s$ file in my temp file, then found the corresponding .dll file in both my directory 19 and system files. In properties, I found the .$S$ file to be only 2 days old. I deleted all 3. My win98SE was slow in deleting them. Any experience out there?...

WMP 9.0 has suddenly decided (I can think of no other changes to audio programs I have made since the onset of the event) that .asp are an unregistered class and are no longer a recognized class -- error message "Class not registered". Any ideas? Example problem site:...

I have on my C drive Win98se and on my E drive, XP...different partitions, same hd. I'm constantly reminded about shortage of space on my C drive. I seldom use that drive, except for a tv tuner. Now, I have unallocated space which I had hoped I can transfer easily to the C drive, but its not...

Help.. I can not open up my computer or any of my folders on my desk top. this is what I get ..............EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module unknown at 0000:07c7fc6e. Registers: EAX=00477850 CS=016f EIP=07c7fc6e EFLGS=00010246 EBX=019d3ee0 SS=0177 ESP=0092be20...

My computer has been restarting once each boot-up, and then randomly restarts approximately once an hour, without any apparent precipitatng cause. It may restart when the computer is sitting or when I close a page or start a program, or it may happen while I'm typing this message. It always...

1) Checked Anti virus sig's, (AVG uptodate) 2) Scandisk - all partitions show no problem. 3) Defrag - no problem. 4) Emptied temp folders and Internet temp. 4) Ran Adaware. 5) Boot in Safe mode and Shows/Access OK to all Drives, sooo software related?? 5b) made shortcuts to access files of each...

How difficult is it to test the power supply for my computer myself? I have little a volt meter that has range to 500 DCV and ACV, will that work? Thank You.

I have an older system with a 500 mghtz processor and 128 megs of RAM. I have on board video and sound. I re formatted and instaled win 98 (was 95). The entire system slugs now. Clicking the start button I can pull up the start menu- but if i click for instance settings, then control panel - it...

Hi, I keep getting this message when I am on the internet any suggestions would be greatful: Program:C\warner\warner.EXE abnormal program termination When I clik OK (only option) I get the following window pop up: Warner

I am running Win 98 with a Pentium(r)II Processor, Intel MMX(TM) with 32 MB of RAM. Is it possible to get more RAM for this older processor? IF so, will it increase my Internet download speed? I ran disk defrag and the speed of my computer is ok. I am trying to increase my internet access speed. I...

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(cross posting reduced) That message can occur for many reasons, whenever a wininit.ini file is = created by some program.=20 The file is used to change files after a reboot, that are in use when = Windows is running. Next time it happens, find the file "wininit.bak", open it in Notepad, = and...

System: PII, 350mhz, 128Mb RAM, 64MB Nvidia Video card, Win98 Over the last two months or so my computer locks up (freezes) after a few minutes of inactivity. In addition to the lock-up, the last screen that I am working on (or in screen saver mode) has numerous green lines that run across the...

From time to time, my desktop icons rearrange themselves, into columns on the left. It isn't a big problem, as I have EZdesk, but I am curious about two points: 1, obviously - what causes it? 2: they aren't continuous columns. My normal arangement is around the edge of the screen, more or less....

Hi All, This morning I had a power black out in my area and obviously my computer was abruptly shut down. Since I restarted my machine, I'm having the following message that keeps poping up on my screen : Wtoolsa This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

Whenever I do a search within my registry, the search engine always crashes into a Windows blue screen fatal error: "A fatal exception 0E has occured at 0028:C023A652 in VXD Perf(05) + 000001B6" I was able to trooubleshoot the Keys that cause the error and they...

I am using a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop which runs Windows 98 Second Edition. The last time I used this computer to connect to the Internet was some 2-3 months ago. Just last night I attempted to get on the Internet with it, but I was unable too. My network PCMCIA card works, but cant connect. I...

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Hello, I have a Windows 98 SE computer set up for shared drive access. Every once in a while an application running on another computer will misbehave and freeze. The file that was being shared on the Win98SE machine will still be seen as in use or open. Is there a utility or way to view all open...