my system has virtually ground to a halt because of this program. can anybody tell me how to get rid of it completely.

I'm about to give an old PC to a relative. Cleaned the hard disk and installed Win98. It's a long time since I used Win98, but I'm sure it supports multiple resolutions. Trouble is on this one it's only got the min res, the others are not listed/available. Am I correct in my recolection, and if...

I'm about to give an old PC to a relative. Cleaned the hard disk and installed Win98. It's a long time since I used Win98, but I'm sure it supports multiple resolutions. Trouble is on this one it's only got the min res, the others are not listed/available. Am I correct in my recolection, and if...

2 questions: If hard drive defragmentation is interrupted (stopped) before completion, does it leave copies of files it temporarily made on the hard drive, or are these deleted? Is there any way to determine the identity of which files are fragmented (or are then fixed by defragmentation)on the...

I have today tried to add an extra 512MB to existing 512 mb ram. System became unstable. Any ideas?

I have today tried to add an extra 512MB to existing 512 mb ram. System became unstable. Any ideas?

1) Remove all files and folders which "YOU CREATED" from the "My Documents" folder and move them to another folder or drive ( as long as it is NOT within MyDocuments, C:\ ( root ) or Windows folder ). 2) Clean up the C:\ ( root ) directory. Move ( or delete ) all files which have the text "LOG",...

The maximum HDD size Windows supports is 128GB ( since there are no 128GB drives... 120GB ). However, depending on the MB, you may have to flash the BIOS to recognize the full 120GBs. Without any changes, 512MB is the limit for Windows. However, by adding the line MaxFileCache=512000 under the...

I'm a firm believer in having as few processes running to get the best possible system performance. One of the processes I have stopped from running is the clock process which normally is displayed in the task bar. To get the clock to appear whenever I want, I used to run a shortcut with the...

Every time I boot up now a window opens telling me the aspi layer currently in use may cause unstable performance. (and I am experiancing problems) Where and how can I update to a newer version of the aspi layer? winaspi32.dll V 1.0.0.0 Any help I can get would be appreciated. Chris

Hello: I currently have an 80GB HDD which is almost full. Hence, I'm thinking of getting either a 120GB or 160GB HDD. I know there will be no problem using a 120GB HDD. However, since a 120 and 160GB HDDs are alomst the same price, I'm thinking of going with the 160GB drive. The question is,...

Can someone please tell me how to get windows 98 to recognize additional RAM? Thanks, Chris

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...

hello. After turning my computer on, and after the windows 98 splash screen whilst loading, the following message apears (below the box with all the computer details in white writing with black background) Veryfying DMI Pool Data.... C:\C:\Windows\cwcdata\cwcdos.exe

in the past 2 days 5 or 6 ppls win 98se boxes died they all have juss bout the same problem. on start up it acts fine but it gets the desktop and the mouse flashes on and then blue screen with an error. this happens in both normal and safe mode. the only difference is that the safe mode blue...

I wonder if anyone can help me. I am having a lot of problems with my WIN 98 2nd Edition Compaq Presario 5716 computer and I am running out of options. I thought the problems might be memory-related, so yesterday I installed another 128 MB of RAM. Now all three sockets have 128 MB each, and there...

Running Win98se, IE v. 6.0 sp1 w/128 bit cipher strength, and 184 MB RAM. When I shut down my computer earlier today, it froze momentarily, then went into safe mode. From there, I clicked Start, then shut down, and let my pc rest for a few minutes. When I turned it back on, it went back into...

My secondary system is still running on Win95. Yesterday at startup, it said to insert a bootable media in the appropriate drive. I did that, using my up-to-date 95/98 system startup disk. At A:/ prompt, I changed to C: drive, but got the message to insert disk 2 into cd-rom drive. (The...

The "Choose Program" applet does not display when I right click my mouse on any file--images, texts, scripts, programs, apps, etc., on my older IBM desktop PC from 1999. When I do, I get the following error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. ...

The "Choose Program" applet does not display when I right click my mouse on any file--images, texts, scripts, programs, apps, etc., on my older IBM desktop PC from 1999. When I do, I get the following error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this...