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Forum: General January 6th 09, 08:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 30
Views: 2,804
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
How to get a windows 98 starup disc???

You can make a floppy boot disk with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the
W98 CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd or you can download one he
http://www.bootdisk.com/


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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Forum: General January 6th 09, 08:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 30
Views: 2,804
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
How to get a windows 98 starup disc???

You can make a floppy boot disk with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the
W98 CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd or you can download one he
http://www.bootdisk.com/


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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Forum: Setup & Installation January 1st 09, 12:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Replies: 4
Views: 2,531
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
installation error

Too much ram--cut back to 1 gb and then see if the following helps.

Here's some info on ram you might find helpful:

Over 512 mb or more of ram:

"Out of Memory" Errors with Large Amounts of RAM...
Forum: Setup & Installation November 27th 08, 01:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Replies: 8
Views: 3,644
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Glad you got it sorted. The reason all your space was not used initially
when you created the C: partition is due to one of two factors. You failed
to say yes to large drive support when running...
Forum: Setup & Installation November 27th 08, 01:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Replies: 8
Views: 3,644
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Glad you got it sorted. The reason all your space was not used initially
when you created the C: partition is due to one of two factors. You failed
to say yes to large drive support when running...
Forum: Setup & Installation November 27th 08, 12:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Replies: 8
Views: 3,644
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. Use all the available space.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
Forum: Setup & Installation November 27th 08, 12:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Replies: 8
Views: 3,644
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. Use all the available space.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
Forum: General November 25th 08, 12:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 1,573
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Connecting with dsl

Check with your ISP--some do not support W98 any longer.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
Forum: General November 19th 08, 02:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 4
Views: 657
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Thanks for the help

I'd recommend going to the HP web site and downloading any needed drivers
from there. Those Compaq restore CDs install a load of useless crap which
probably won't be totally removed through the...
Forum: General November 15th 08, 11:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 693
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
LoadPowerProfile

I haven't used W98 in several years; however, I have a recollection that
stopping one of profiles can cause weird problems to happen. I can see no
advantage in fooling with those settings so I...
Forum: General October 8th 08, 10:59 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 1,297
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Do I Need a Registry Cleaner? SPAM

No one needs spam or a registry cleaner.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
Forum: General September 30th 08, 05:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 928
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Asleep at the wheel

Hi Don,

More likely it means not many people are using W98 any longer. I have 98
loaded in VirtualPC for reference use only. I sometimes miss tinkering with
it but the stability of XP overcomes...
Forum: General September 23rd 08, 06:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 1,138
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Posting In The Future?

Double click your clock in the system tray and check out the time zone.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
Forum: General September 8th 08, 03:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 4
Views: 2,100
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Start up of Programs in System Tray (how to)

The programs have to have the capability to place an icon in the system
tray; otherwise you will need some help:
http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/TrayIcon_Pro.htm This program used to be
free a few...
Forum: General August 31st 08, 01:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 1,360
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
how can i install more colours on my pc

When the correct screen resolution (screen area) or the right number of
colors are not available choices in display properties, settings tab, then
it is a good bet you do not have the right driver...
Forum: General August 31st 08, 01:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 2,481
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
On installing a CLEAN Win98 where do I get the 'necessary' updates?

Before you start, ensure that there are W98 drivers for your hardware as
there may not be any available. XP may be slow if there is insufficient
ram installed and/or there are a ton of unneeded...
Forum: General July 15th 08, 12:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 10
Views: 2,727
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
How to make bootable flash memory USB in Win98?

Hi Gary,

Is the procedure you pointed out going to allow him to flash a BIOS? If so,
I stand corrected on the info in my post to Tony.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Forum: General July 14th 08, 11:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 10
Views: 2,727
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
How to make bootable flash memory USB in Win98?

If I understand you correctly, I don't think you can do that. Drivers have
to be loaded for USB to work and since you are flashing the BIOS, the system
is not yet running and drivers are not...
Forum: General July 14th 08, 01:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 39
Views: 5,138
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Windows 98 Will Not Start Up

Not sure this will work but it doesn't cost anything to try. Boot with a
floppy start up disk. At the A: prompt, type: C: and hit enter. At
the C: prompt, type: exit and hit...
Forum: General July 13th 08, 01:30 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 1
Views: 1,517
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Unable to shut down

MVP Jim Eshelman has general troubleshooting procedures for W95/98/98SE
shutdown problems at http://www.aumha.org/a/shutdown.htm and procedures for
W98SE in particular at ...
Forum: General July 12th 08, 05:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 4,951
Posted By Ron Badour[_2_]
Start -All Programs (nothing is appearing after accidental shutdo

I probably got into this thread too late; however, what I would do is search
the drive using as the search criteria: *.lnk and see where any link
files might be located. It's possible the...
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