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Invisible task? by David Collins
I seem to have performance degradation so I bring up the system monitor and sure enough, there's something taking a constant 50% of the machine. Curiously, wintop.exe shows nothing. Mouse activity causes usage to dip (weird). Eliminating tasks one by one using 3 finger salute fails to locate...
January 30th 05 03:21 AM
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Win98SE keeps asking for PCI USB by T009
I installed the tv ATI tuner I have and each time I boot, a box appears asking for "PCI Universal Bus". I made it do its own search and it keeps coming back unable to find". I do a browse and tried almost every place that I could think of and could not get windows to find it, including the updated...
January 30th 05 12:53 AM
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Odd hanging problem by Trent SC
A colleague is running a PIII 500 PC with 320MB RAM on an IDE hard drive, Win98se & all the updates. She's found that when typing (either in Word or OE6; not sure whether this happens in other apps), the machine will hang for a short while, then change to allow the mouse to move, but not enable...
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January 27th 05 06:00 PM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Odd hanging problem by Trent SC
A colleague is running a PIII 500 PC with 320MB RAM on an IDE hard drive, Win98se & all the updates. She's found that when typing (either in Word or OE6; not sure whether this happens in other apps), the machine will hang for a short while, then change to allow the mouse to move, but not enable...
January 26th 05 11:04 PM
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PCI Communication Device by Jacko-lantern
Looking for help with this device. First question: What is it? Second question: How do I install the drivers for it? This is listed under Device Manager tab in System Properties. PCI communication device has a yellow exclamation mark beside it. Not sure what else I can tell you at this point....
January 24th 05 07:47 AM
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Super Bad Virus? Can't Even Reformat! by SJH
On 23-Jan-2005, "Ron Badour" wrote: When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and boot from it? If so, I think you either have a video card or a monitor going bad. Try your monitor on a different machine and that monitor on yours. I can't...
January 24th 05 04:18 AM
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Super Bad Virus? Can't Even Reformat! by SJH
On 23-Jan-2005, "Ron Badour" wrote: When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and boot from it? If so, I think you either have a video card or a monitor going bad. Try your monitor on a different machine and that monitor on yours. I can't...
January 24th 05 04:18 AM
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Super Bad Virus? Can't Even Reformat! by SJH
I think I have a virus but I've never seen anything like it. My screen has flashing verticle lines and I can hardly see the screen. I used GoBack to try to revert the drive and it didn't help. I can't even get a boot disk to work because I can't see past the lines. I tried re-seating my video...
January 23rd 05 07:47 PM
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memory limitation on 98se? by chris hudson
I have today tried to add an extra 512MB to existing 512 mb ram. System became unstable. Any ideas?
January 22nd 05 07:00 PM
by chris hudson Go to last post
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sticky cursor...slow boot...etc...etc a little help? by makk73
recently installed mcafee, after dumping norton, but a month into new subscription...have sticky cursor and other delay issues...a little help...please?!?!?!
January 21st 05 08:08 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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sticky cursor...slow boot...etc...etc a little help? by makk73
recently installed mcafee, after dumping norton, but a month into new subscription...have sticky cursor and other delay issues...a little help...please?!?!?!
January 20th 05 07:20 PM
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Mouse Double-Click Problem by geezer
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
January 18th 05 02:38 PM
by geezer Go to last post
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WW98SE installable on a SATA HD? by ***** charles
is it possible to install W98SE OEM onto a motherboard with a built on SATA contoller so that the one SATA HD is formated and used as drive C:? charles.....
January 18th 05 12:05 PM
by Richard G. Harper Go to last post
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Mouse Double-Click Problem by geezer
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
January 18th 05 11:56 AM
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RAM for Pentium II by bryan
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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January 18th 05 03:00 AM
by ***** charles[_3_] Go to last post
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WW98SE installable on a SATA HD? by ***** charles[_3_]
is it possible to install W98SE OEM onto a motherboard with a built on SATA contoller so that the one SATA HD is formated and used as drive C:? charles.....
January 18th 05 02:33 AM
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Help - Lost my task bar by geezer
Suddenly my task bar has disappeared, The desktop and its icons fill the screen top to bottom. What could have caused this? And how can I get it back? Also - the big word 'Mute' is permanently displayed on the desktop screen and of course sound is gone. How do I remove the mute? Thanks
January 17th 05 02:59 PM
by dadiOH[_4_] Go to last post
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Help - Lost my task bar by geezer
Suddenly my task bar has disappeared, The desktop and its icons fill the screen top to bottom. What could have caused this? And how can I get it back? Also - the big word 'Mute' is permanently displayed on the desktop screen and of course sound is gone. How do I remove the mute? Thanks
January 16th 05 06:39 PM
by geezer Go to last post
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msxml3.dll error msg by L/P[_2_]
(Originally posted, for my mom, in OE newsgroup but have found this error pops up in other situations, see below.) This happens when I click on a couple of e-mails. Suggestions please, B.
January 16th 05 05:49 PM
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msxml3.dll error msg by L/P
(Originally posted, for my mom, in OE newsgroup but have found this error pops up in other situations, see below.) This happens when I click on a couple of e-mails. Suggestions please, B. MSIMN caused an invalid page fault in
January 16th 05 05:49 PM
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