I am aware I can defragment in safe mode, just curious as to why suddenly, after 5 years, my defrag is doing what others have experienced, and aborting half way through and starting again? I always use "end it all" with av shut down. any ideas? Thank you very much.

Am trying to config Win98SE from scratch and have the following serious problem. Run the Internet Wizard, use manual as i already have an ISP. Put i all parameters possible and then have to diddle modem for 115Kbaud, max FIFO; have to diddle dialing for always use area code; and some other...

I have to say I'm impressed. No posts related to the new DST rules.

What is the difference between $recycle.bin and recycler?

While using a library computer, I saved to a thumb drive some web pages that displayed running videos. Then I tryed to display the web pages using the home computer but got the message "you must have Adobe Flash Player installed to view the website properly". So I went back to the library and...

FYI My query on this was solved. I downloaded "CopyURL" http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp Installed Using windows explorer navigated to C:\Windows\favourites

It appears that computer users will have USB 3 in 2008 and according to this article it will be backwards compatible with USB 2. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for computing and technology in general. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780794-7.html

I have been looking to buy a USB 2.0 card, and was looking online to see what's available. I noticed one card that has both USB and FIREWIRE. What is the purpose of Firewire? Or maybe I should ask what it's used for. I also noticed some ads saying that it can use up to 127 USB devices. I see...

Recently when I end some programs running in a DOS window, the window size reduces to slightly larger than a postage stamp. I have been running these programs for years without that happening. I can't find any setting that would correct this. Has anybody encountered this problem? Thanks...

On my Win 98 SE, I had installed the above Anti-Virus. I had NOT used this PC for about 27 days during travel. When I started,, I expected the automatic undates to be launched. Regrettably, the machine is NOT updating and when I tried to remove it from the Add/Remove Programs so as to reinstall it,...

Recently installed 1.5GB ram in the laptop. Went to boot into SAFE mode last night and got the "windows cannot initialize, bla,bla, bla something about not enough memory". Well, 98Se works fine, just wanted to clean out some registry devices as the laptop has had numerous upgrades and I prefer not...

Hi everyone. It's me again...the "INTERMEDIATE" user! It seems the more I explore Windows 98, the more I have questions I have no answers to. I've been stuck in a Windows 98 rutt for the last 5 years or so (that is, I ALWAYS did the same things over and over again...never really explored the...

The Windows Secrets site has article about how to prevent systems from executing autorun.ini files on removable media. http://windowssecrets.com/comp/071108 It sounds like a significant hole to me. I am surprised that this hasn't come up long ago. The article refers to XP and Vista only. ...

Seeking utility that converts a pixilated JPG file image to a sharp one.

Reply by email, filling out this form and emailing it to me. Trimming off the rest of this post is unnecessary. I will guarantee anonymity except in cases of blatant abuse. I will achieve anonymity by tallying the results in uncorrelated tabulations and then deleting the emails. (I know this loses...

Reply by email, filling out this form and emailing it to me. Trimming off the rest of this post is unnecessary. I will guarantee anonymity except in cases of blatant abuse. I will achieve anonymity by tallying the results in uncorrelated tabulations and then deleting the emails. (I know this loses...

Will using this MS-DOS command to revert to a prevous registry remove a virus and/or its settings? (I tried posting this earlier, but all the fields cleared after I hit POST)

hallo I have two (or to better say more) harddisk on one of them I have w98 on another I have wxp sp2 when I boot on xp the files on the xp harddisk in Explorer are correctly shown in lower case

I just bought an HP Digital Camera model M547. This 6.2 MP model was just replaced with an 8 MP model so it was on sale. My old camera was a 3mp and took excellent pictures (till it died), so I dont need 8mp. However, the camera came with an install CD which has all the photo-editing software...

What is the "best" version of DirectX to run on Win98SE? tia -- Zo ABSENTEE: A missing golf accessory.