"98 Guy" wrote:

Witsend wrote:

I'd (reluctantly) reformat & reinstall IF the machine was
performing poorly, but it's not...

Go spend $50 for a new 80 gb hard drive and swap it into your computer
as the primary (C) drive and remove your existing drive. Then install
98 on the new drive. If you get it working, you can re-connect your
existing drive in the secondary or slave position and copy all of your
personal files from the old drive to the new drive.

Yes, you'd also have to re-install your apps to the new drive as well.


So... that's it then... ? A complete operating system and application
install on a brand new HD is the only way to get a couple of Windows apps to
see a working internet connection... ?! We're back to "designed obsolescence
..vs. operator stupidity." If you ask me, it seems pretty stupid to have to
reinstall an entire operating system just to get IE to see a network
connection...sigh...

Oh well, it wasn't completely without learning opportunity, so thanks v.
much for your help, it was appreciated and I thought for a short while that
we might actually fix it.

Cheers, Witsend.