Before I installed Win98SE (had Win95B), I had two sliders for changing my screen size - one slider for changing screen area, and another one for changing desktop area. The default screen resolution for my monitor is 640x480 and it can't be changed. So I used to change just desktop area to get the...

I reformat my hard drive and when I re-installed windows 98 back in my computer. my screen looks weard colors are not clear. i went to my system settings and under color setings I only have 2 color and 16 color settings I'm missing the 256 color setting. I uninstalled the driver for my display...

I have a 19 inch monitor. Until this AM all four sides of windows filled the monitor screen nicely. Now suddenly I have a 1/4" black area on left and right. My monitor's manual controls seem inoperative, so I cannot expand the raster that way. Is there a way, using W98SE function(s)? Thanks

Computer running 98se with Office 2000 installed has suddenly developed a 'low on resources' problem. although Excel loads, Word will not load, and eventually message appears saying system low on resources, close programs etc.. the error message is as above: invalid page fault in module...

Thanks for your response, I have another question, and I wonder if it may be related to my (start button sticking) problem: The clock(lower right)loses time. I can click on it and hit OK, and it will correct its-self. It seems to happen when I am doing something on the internet like reading a long...

For some unknown reason today I cannot create a "new folder" from either the "file" menu drop down box or by right clicking on my desktop. Help Please!

I have recently installed a second CD drive and now Windows Media player will no longer play CDs from the original drive but gives the message " The selected file has a format which is not recognised by Windows Media Player" It will play them from the new drive. Windows explorer correctly...

Experts: I am having an intermittent but persistant problem with Windows 98se "freezing" when playing video clips. Most often play stops and mouse clicks have no effect. Ctrl-Alt-Del will NOT bring up the running program list but 3 Ctrl-Alt-Dels WILL reboot the system normally without running...

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Here is the scenario: Sitting behind your computer, typing away, probably working on something fairly important, when all of a sudden nothing happens. Been there before? I know I have. Heck, I do this for a living, and just the other day in the middle of writing an article my computer locked up. It...

Much obliged if anyone can help me out on what's going wrong with my bootup sequence. I lent a computer to my son who recently returned it to me. Now, it doesn't boot properly. In a nutshell, here's what happens: the start-up sequence progresses to a point where my computer screen just blinks and...

Thanks for the help I have received here! To date I have installed and run Hijackthis, XoftSpy, adaware, spybot, spyware blaster, and cw shredder. Got rid of a lot of nasty stuff. Have also installed all updates for Win98 including IE 6. OKAY...

hi win98 2gb ram installed.but not windows 98 intalled.error message.win98 2gb ram not support.what feasibility

Hi Threre ========== My "Resource Meter" just after openning my PC is: System Resources: 42% free User Resources: 42% free GDI Resources: 47% free How can I see what running in my computer (WIN 98) and what element take what resources (I know such tool only on XP).

Roomate's PC. How do I restore a registry from DOS? Scanreg /restore just hangs. Too long to explain right now except that the system hung , while in System Information while doing a Registry Check. I wanted to back up the Registry due to a problem with booting due to the MB and/or the PSU. Now,...

You need a registry cleaner for your windows computer because of the numerous errors, which occur from registry problems. You see, the registry is the place where your computer stores the configuration information about your computer and your installed programs so that your operating system can use...

My Computer goes through start up almost all the way, Then I get a message saying "Explorer.exe you must reinstall windows." Then I get a warning box saying "error starting program: the c:\\windows\system\comct32.dll file appears to be corrupt reinstall nad try again" I try to go into Safe Mode...

I have found that I am no longer able to shut down windows and have it restart in Dos. (i.e.Go to start, shutdown,select restart in DOS). In other respects Windows appears to be operating normally. I am using Win98SE with SP1 and all security updates installed. It use to provide a shut down...

Used to have a single CD ROM, set up as master at the end of the cable. Added another CD ROM, for R/W, set up as slave. Boot up everything lists ok. Yet, can't access information on CD ROM Went back to single CD ROM and still disk won't read info. Worse, Windows Explorer badly hangs trying to...

Would appreciate any tips or suggestion on where to start tracking this down. Thanks. Petre. Hi Petre, A coupld of years back I had the same problem when opening Windows Explorer.