I have only a 2 GB c:\ partition on the PC desktop I'm using and my Windows folder takes up a full 1.3 GB of that. I am always trying to clean off the partition but somehow it keeps filling itself up. I often do disk cleanup, but that helps only minimally. Is there any guidance someone can offer...

Thought I would like to change the face on my old win 98 PC for the holidays with some holiday type animated cursors. Went looking for some and search pointed me to plenty of "free" ones that wrap in ads etc to my PC. I looked for some that I could buy but seems that they are hard to locate. ...

I haven't seen this computer yet, but it sounds like a mess. The person says it's 7 - 10 years old and it has never been scandisked or defragged to her knowledge. Last week, she was complaining about it getting slow (no wonder), so I told her what to do. The following day, she told me she...

I was running regedit to look for an item when I came across a long list of what looked like web addresses. The thing that caught my eye was listings for a number of gambling casinos which I had never visited. On further research I found this list in three...

Hi, Thanks for previous help re Soundcard thread. We decided to wipe clean our old PC - using it's system CD which promised to set it up to it's original configuration. When prompted to insert the OS disc (Windows ME) we realised we didn't have one. We did have an old Windows 98 disc so we used...

kid's game machine, bought used couple years ago from a builder with 98se preloaded, suddenly last weekend locked and had no programs running in the task manager, decided to boot from startup disk, entered product key at the prompt (had retreived the key number from system registry some time ago),...

I am running MS Office 2000 and Outlook Express 5 under Win 98 with an Epson colour inkjet printer. When I try to print from Outlook Express or Word, the printer pushes through the correct number of pieces of paper but they are all blank. However, MS Publisher documents all print correctly...

I continue to recieve the following error message everytime I need to reboot: VWIN32(05) 000012DO ERROR:OE:0028:C02A44 A8 This appears in a blue screen and I need to - cont./alt./del. - to restart. Please help me to resolve this issue. Thank you in advance Bobby

I have another question from one of our senior members that I cannot find the solution to, perhaps someone here may be able to help or direct me to where I may be able to get the solution. " I cannot 'save too disk' an attachment from Yahoo emails. It allows me to 'open from this location' and can...

Hi all... I'm using Windows 98SE. Recently my PC had a serious crashed and I reinstall windows 98. But when windows tries to load, I get a error message saying "the file system.ini is missing or damaged... Windows might need this file to run..." I've tried reinstalling windows setup a few times....

When I start my computer I get "write fault error writing device PRN. Abort, Retry, Fail.Ignore. When I click Abort I get press any key to continue, once I do then the PC shuts down. I am unable to start up using W98 startup disk, W98 cd or the restore disk that came with the system. When the...

I'm looking either for a mouse or a reg setting that'll allow me on-click selection. The Windows standard selection is on-release thereby allowing Special Drag with the Left Mouse Button. Not many apps. utilise Special Drag - I'm only aware of Win-Explorer. I'm an Engineering Draughtsperson using...

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I got this error message 1st: The shlwapi.dll file is linked to missing export kernel32.dll: get windows directosyA. Then, I got this error message: error loading explorer exe. Your must reinstall windows. I have tried 5 times to reinstall, and I keep getting the same error messages. If anyone...

What does this mean?? Thanks, Don

I shut down my pc the normal way, closed all applications before shutting down. Today when I on it, it gives me the following error message " A fatal exception OE has occurred.....'. So, I off the power physically and on it again. It starts at 'safe mode'. I would like to know from the 'safe...

When using the ALT+TAB key combination it does not show the icons. This only happens intermittently. Any ideas? This is Win98SE, on a network useing NetWare 6.

This is not an earth-shocking problem - just the same, I'm wondering . . . I use the Windows "Clouds" for a desktop wallpaper. It used to be that, on boot-up, the wallpaper and icons appeared, and the rest of the programs (anti-virus, mailwasher, a custom mouse driver program and a PDI synch...

Hi, I just installed a D-link DLW20 in my machine. The machines ound the new hardware and everything was working as expected (I was able to get to the internet). After turning the machine off for the first time after the card, I get the Blue Screen when windows 98 tries to load that says "VFAT...

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