I am resurecting a dell laptop and installed win 98se. My wireless connection to the internet and home network seems ok. Every time I start the ie6 it goes to a MSN set up your modem dialog. Which ends in a dead end. I downloaded ie6 and reinstalled. Same problem. Thanks Larry

Home page recommends to uninstall the old version (after first selecting to disable all protection) and then install the new one.

Sometimes I open a web page and the type is so small it appears unreadable and brokenup. It does not happen often but it is frustrating. Even when I tried to sign up for a hotmail account here on the microsoft webpage the signup form page was like this. all the other pages are fine. Is this...

I am running Windows 98 and my date will not display, all it keeps showing is ????. I tried fixing it by changing my Regional Settings and when I clicked on the Date tab it just stops responding. How do I correct this problem?

Hi, I have deleted mydocs file assocations by mistake. now My document system folder appears on my desktop without caption. I have tried every thing to make caption appear but it didnt do anything. I have deleted the My Document folder now it doesnt re-appear. Please help me how can I re-add the...

We have a computer in the house running Windows 98 which has slowed down dramatically in the last few weeks. It runs OK in SAFE mode, so I'm assuming it's something running in the background. It doesn't help to physically disconnect it from the Internet. How do I identify which processes are...

When I attempt to run "Photo Explorer" I get an invalid page fault KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7a138. Any suggestions? I already cleaned my temp folder of tmp files.

Start-Up: Frequently sfter desktop appears and I attempt to use an application, the inteneded task does not complete and I discover that Ccapp is not responding. I remedy by shutting down and restarting. What is causing this? Microsoft Critical Update Notification: I receive pop-up notification...

I need help! Every time I start my computer a message pops up for Microsoft explorer saying "this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." This happens when my background pops up but before my icons do. I can not access anything on my computer. All of the other web...

When booting a dell optiplex gs+ running win 98 after a long booting attempt i get the video driver has been initialized by windows finish configuring in control panel and then it just sits there with the cursor blinking underneath the error message?? I am at a loss and understaffed here in the...

Hi, If you have saved various emails in folders using outlook, what is easiest way to write that data to cd and get it to another computer. Then launch outlook on other machine and be able to read these folders. You can export the addresses to a csv file, but there does not appear to be a way to...

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I am trying to do format and recover, but my system recovery disk does nothing after I choose format and recover and hit ok. I have even tried to do just recovery and hit ok & nothing happens then either. Help! Thank you! Chris

Good Friends: I am running Win98SE on a 166 MHz/94Mb RAM system. Initially I had a problem with the computer freezing on bootup. I used safe mode to diagnose that the problem is related to a missing motvcd.vxd file. Trying various suggested solutions to fix that problem, I must have done...

When making a copy of a game cd which option 'Burn data disc or copy etire disc 'should i choose? thanks a lot.

I had a hard drive go bad, and before it completely went out I quickly copied as much as I could of the drive to my D drive. The old C drive is now inaccessable unless I were to pay big bucks to some h/d retrieval service. I've gotten a new drive and reinstalled Win98SE. I have the old .dbx files...

This morning when I turned on my Compaq Presario 1900 laptop, I received an error message "No OS". I attempted to boot from a Win 98 Startup Disk, but it opened in "Help Readme" . I was able to scroll up and down, but not right and left, so I could not get out of the "Help Readme". I attempted to...

Hi everyone, as some of you might know, the Windows 98 "Save As..." dialog box, besides being too small, clumsy, etc., has one annoying behavior. It lets you double-click through a folder shortcut, while replacing the name of the file to be saved with the name of that shortcut. (The next...

After reformatting and reinstalling 98SE, the calculator is much wider--it's now square instead of rectangular. I removed it in Add/Remove, rebooted, then added it again from the Win98 CD, but it still looks weird. How do I get the original shape back?

Am waiting and anticipating the verdict.