w98 pre-installed query

I was given a computer by a 'soon to be deceased'
friend, which they bought 2nd hand through a small local
clearing house. It came with no CD, no hard copy
instructions and missing the interactive tutorial part
of "Welcome to Windows". I received the gift with the rapt
enthusiasm that one would expect from a flounder upon
receiving a copy of "The Calculus". But I wriggled out of
the sand, got connected to the net and did my best to
escape from Flatland into the ethernet.
After about 3 months using the "Peeling Onions"
approach to problem solving, I thought I was about to make
a real breakthrough, (thanks largely to having discovered
this NG) only to find myself facing what might be a
classic, "You can't get there from here" paradox, or not;
I dunno.
The creator of my unit, model #En6550, Touchfax(913-
599-669) doesn't "think" they support W98 anymore, but
will check & get back to me sometime. That my unit was
made and sold in Canada did not seem impress him as much
as I'd hoped, either; eh?
There are many maintenance & problem solving issues
requiring stuff I don't have ,eg., how to fix my corrupt
cache(diagnosed by MVP Sandy) or do system backups(program
missing, apparently) without a 'reboot disc' and the W98
CD? And I am still very confused about organizing files
and and just knowing what different things do
since "Welcome to Windows" mat was missing from the front
door.
So, question is; assuming my situation is not unique,
where do I go to find sol'ns so I don't waste so much time
going up blind alleys and down rabbit holes; not to
mention embarassing myself by writing epistles to this
esteemed body of worthies when a couple of lines should do.
rooster
boundary bay bc

Its not so bad as you might feel, Sandi's diagnosis usually gives the answer
to the problem as well, IIRC the cache can be deleted after boot up, but
reread her answer to you for the skinny, Missing backup programs, not as bad
as you might think as msbackup is a disgusting POS that wont really work well
for large backups, wont support cdr/cdrw, better is to install one that works,
in this search google is your friend

boot disk can be made from windows
start
settings
control panel
add remove programs
startup disk

and for the missing windows cd, many are installed on the hard drive,,
start
find
files or folders
named "*.cab"
If you get a set of .cab files with almost consecutive names, driver1 drver2
etc then that folder contains your windows setup files and you can point
installerzs to that folder during hardware/software installations.

If you really want a Windows CD, EBay, or your local PC shop may have one
filed away in the junk drawer, I got Windows 98 SE retail from Staples not
long ago(for free it wasnt for sale any more), by asking the pimply teenaged
clerk to 'just look, please'
not really pimply or a teenager but what the hey.

Self peeled onions are always sweeter
Dos Vdanye

--
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters


"rooster" wrote in message
...
| I was given a computer by a 'soon to be deceased'
| friend, which they bought 2nd hand through a small local
| clearing house. It came with no CD, no hard copy
| instructions and missing the interactive tutorial part
| of "Welcome to Windows". I received the gift with the rapt
| enthusiasm that one would expect from a flounder upon
| receiving a copy of "The Calculus". But I wriggled out of
| the sand, got connected to the net and did my best to
| escape from Flatland into the ethernet.
| After about 3 months using the "Peeling Onions"
| approach to problem solving, I thought I was about to make
| a real breakthrough, (thanks largely to having discovered
| this NG) only to find myself facing what might be a
| classic, "You can't get there from here" paradox, or not;
| I dunno.
| The creator of my unit, model #En6550, Touchfax(913-
| 599-669) doesn't "think" they support W98 anymore, but
| will check & get back to me sometime. That my unit was
| made and sold in Canada did not seem impress him as much
| as I'd hoped, either; eh?
| There are many maintenance & problem solving issues
| requiring stuff I don't have ,eg., how to fix my corrupt
| cache(diagnosed by MVP Sandy) or do system backups(program
| missing, apparently) without a 'reboot disc' and the W98
| CD? And I am still very confused about organizing files
| and and just knowing what different things do
| since "Welcome to Windows" mat was missing from the front
| door.
| So, question is; assuming my situation is not unique,
| where do I go to find sol'ns so I don't waste so much time
| going up blind alleys and down rabbit holes; not to
| mention embarassing myself by writing epistles to this
| esteemed body of worthies when a couple of lines should do.
| rooster
| boundary bay bc
|

-----Original Message-----
Its not so bad as you might feel, Sandi's diagnosis
usually gives the answer
to the problem as well, IIRC the cache can be deleted
after boot up, but
reread her answer to you for the skinny, Missing backup
programs, not as bad
as you might think as msbackup is a disgusting POS that
wont really work well
for large backups, wont support cdr/cdrw, better is to
install one that works,
in this search google is your friend

boot disk can be made from windows
start
settings
control panel
add remove programs
startup disk

and for the missing windows cd, many are installed on the
hard drive,,
start
find
files or folders
named "*.cab"
If you get a set of .cab files with almost consecutive
names, driver1 drver2
etc then that folder contains your windows setup files
and you can point
installerzs to that folder during hardware/software
installations.

If you really want a Windows CD, EBay, or your local PC
shop may have one
filed away in the junk drawer, I got Windows 98 SE retail
from Staples not
long ago(for free it wasnt for sale any more), by asking
the pimply teenaged
clerk to 'just look, please'
not really pimply or a teenager but what the hey.

Self peeled onions are always sweeter
Dos Vdanye

--
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on
the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters


"rooster" wrote in
message
...
| I was given a computer by a 'soon to be deceased'
| friend, which they bought 2nd hand through a small local
| clearing house. It came with no CD, no hard copy
| instructions and missing the interactive tutorial part
| of "Welcome to Windows". I received the gift with the
rapt
| enthusiasm that one would expect from a flounder upon
| receiving a copy of "The Calculus". But I wriggled out
of
| the sand, got connected to the net and did my best to
| escape from Flatland into the ethernet.
| After about 3 months using the "Peeling Onions"
| approach to problem solving, I thought I was about to
make
| a real breakthrough, (thanks largely to having
discovered
| this NG) only to find myself facing what might be a
| classic, "You can't get there from here" paradox, or
not;
| I dunno.
| The creator of my unit, model #En6550, Touchfax
(913-
| 599-669) doesn't "think" they support W98 anymore, but
| will check & get back to me sometime. That my unit was
| made and sold in Canada did not seem impress him as much
| as I'd hoped, either; eh?
| There are many maintenance & problem solving issues
| requiring stuff I don't have ,eg., how to fix my corrupt
| cache(diagnosed by MVP Sandy) or do system backups
(program
| missing, apparently) without a 'reboot disc' and the W98
| CD? And I am still very confused about organizing files
| and and just knowing what different things do
| since "Welcome to Windows" mat was missing from the
front
| door.
| So, question is; assuming my situation is not
unique,
| where do I go to find sol'ns so I don't waste so much
time
| going up blind alleys and down rabbit holes; not to
| mention embarassing myself by writing epistles to this
| esteemed body of worthies when a couple of lines should
do.
| rooster
| boundary bay bc
|


.AlmostBob;
I very much appreciated your help. Perhaps I'm not as
deep in doo doo as I thought. Until now, I thought it was
illegal to buy someone else's W98 program. Paranoia can
make you crazy, eh?

rooster

-----Original Message-----

-----Original Message-----
Its not so bad as you might feel, Sandi's diagnosis
usually gives the answer
to the problem as well, IIRC the cache can be deleted
after boot up, but
reread her answer to you for the skinny, Missing backup
programs, not as bad
as you might think as msbackup is a disgusting POS that
wont really work well
for large backups, wont support cdr/cdrw, better is to
install one that works,
in this search google is your friend

boot disk can be made from windows
start
settings
control panel
add remove programs
startup disk

and for the missing windows cd, many are installed on
the
hard drive,,
start
find
files or folders
named "*.cab"
If you get a set of .cab files with almost consecutive
names, driver1 drver2
etc then that folder contains your windows setup files
and you can point
installerzs to that folder during hardware/software
installations.

If you really want a Windows CD, EBay, or your local PC
shop may have one
filed away in the junk drawer, I got Windows 98 SE
retail
from Staples not
long ago(for free it wasnt for sale any more), by asking
the pimply teenaged
clerk to 'just look, please'
not really pimply or a teenager but what the hey.

Self peeled onions are always sweeter
Dos Vdanye

--
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on
the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters


"rooster" wrote in
message
.. .
| I was given a computer by a 'soon to be deceased'
| friend, which they bought 2nd hand through a small
local
| clearing house. It came with no CD, no hard copy
| instructions and missing the interactive tutorial part
| of "Welcome to Windows". I received the gift with the
rapt
| enthusiasm that one would expect from a flounder upon
| receiving a copy of "The Calculus". But I wriggled out
of
| the sand, got connected to the net and did my best to
| escape from Flatland into the ethernet.
| After about 3 months using the "Peeling Onions"
| approach to problem solving, I thought I was about to
make
| a real breakthrough, (thanks largely to having
discovered
| this NG) only to find myself facing what might be a
| classic, "You can't get there from here" paradox, or
not;
| I dunno.
| The creator of my unit, model #En6550, Touchfax
(913-
| 599-669) doesn't "think" they support W98 anymore, but
| will check & get back to me sometime. That my unit was
| made and sold in Canada did not seem impress him as
much
| as I'd hoped, either; eh?
| There are many maintenance & problem solving
issues
| requiring stuff I don't have ,eg., how to fix my
corrupt
| cache(diagnosed by MVP Sandy) or do system backups
(program
| missing, apparently) without a 'reboot disc' and the
W98
| CD? And I am still very confused about organizing files
| and and just knowing what different things do
| since "Welcome to Windows" mat was missing from the
front
| door.
| So, question is; assuming my situation is not
unique,
| where do I go to find sol'ns so I don't waste so much
time
| going up blind alleys and down rabbit holes; not to
| mention embarassing myself by writing epistles to this
| esteemed body of worthies when a couple of lines
should
do.
| rooster
| boundary bay bc
|


.AlmostBob;
I very much appreciated your help. Perhaps I'm not
as
deep in doo doo as I thought. Until now, I thought it was
illegal to buy someone else's W98 program. Paranoia can
make you crazy, eh?

rooster

.AlmostBob, p.s.,
I'd like to save your post in a file, but IExpl
|File| "The page you req'd could not be saved",
happens. I don't think there are any redemption issues
involved, so I must be pushing the wrong buttons. I
emailed it to myself but I got all the postings on the
page, 68KB worth. Is there a trick to achieving this or
should I go to Billy Graham's website?

rooster

There are times when you will want to save a complete web page out of
IE, and there are techniques to make it smoother, if not simpler, but for NG
posts, you're much better off using Outlook Express, which is better set up
for handling newsgroups--the only difficulty is that you need to go through
some preliminaries:
(1) in IE, go to www.support.microsoft.com/
(2) click 'Microsoft Public Newsgroups'
(3) on the page that comes up, in the sidebar at the right, click 'Using
Newsgroups'
(4) scroll to 'Using an NNTP Newsreader' (towards bottom of page)

If you go to the links provided: 'How to configure Outlook Express for
Internet Newsgroups' and How to subscribe to Newsgroups in Outlook Express',
you'll find all the skinny you need to get going.

When you 'save as' from OE, you have a number of choices, but you can
always edit the results if you want, using an external editor, inserting
notes, doing copying, pasting, and generally cleaning up and simplifying
what can be a mess.

WRT the saving of web pagesin IE, there are several ways to do this.
Note that if the page you are trying to save references a '3rd party
server', i.e., if some part of the page is on another machine, I.E. will not
save it in this simple fashion, and you may have to do it sequetially.
If you simply choose one of the choices given you in the 'Save As'
dialog box, the first one saves it as a complete set of referenced files in
the selected folder as well as new subfolders which it creates. See below
for the second selection which is 'Web Archive'.
The third selection will just save the initially called .htm page. If
all you want is the HTML part, not the directory trees, the sidebars, and
nice graphics, this may work for you just fine, depending upon the habits of
the author. Just try it, and if you get an .htm file of only about 2kB,
you'll probably find that an attempt to open the file later with IE will get
you 'Page not available', meaning you have to dig a little farther, but if
it's larger than 2-3 kB, chances are you have what you want.
If you didn't get the text, you can save the whole page complete (first
choice in the 'Save as' dialog box) which will give you the page as a
'calling' HTML page, with subfolder(s), the first of which is named
similarly to the calling .HTM file. You already know that the top level
..htm is only a couple of kB, in which case it has nothing you want. The
real text is found in one of the subfolders created by the 'Save as' and you
can usually identify it by its size--it's usually the largest of any .htm
file there, and often the only one.
In either case, you can copy the .htm you think is the file you want to
another directory (folder), then double-click on it to have IE display it as
an .htm file. If IE wants to dial-up your ISP, you can just tell it cancel,
and IE will show the page 'with errors' which means nothing for your text.
If you get a 'page unavailable', you chose the wrong .htm.
The point of all this is you only need to store one file of, say, 50 kB
where the complete save amounts to as much as a Meg, perhaps, with all the
..gifs, etc., you don't want, to say nothing of the clutter of extra
subfolders. Once you have the .htm that is the text you want, save it with
an appropriate title, in some higher folder, as an .htm file. You may then
delete all the stuff you saved before(subfolders and all).
In case you *want* all the graphics, you can also choose the "save as"
option that saves the page as a 'web page archive, complete' or .mht file.
The drawback is that it is a large file, generally as large as the complete
save with subfolders, all told, but it *is* just *one* file, and is easier
to move and copy, etc.

Sorry, hard to say in a few words,
Good Luck,
Joe
"rooster" wrote in message
...

-----Original Message-----

-----Original Message-----
Its not so bad as you might feel, Sandi's diagnosis
usually gives the answer
to the problem as well, IIRC the cache can be deleted
after boot up, but
reread her answer to you for the skinny, Missing backup
programs, not as bad
as you might think as msbackup is a disgusting POS that
wont really work well
for large backups, wont support cdr/cdrw, better is to
install one that works,
in this search google is your friend

boot disk can be made from windows
start
settings
control panel
add remove programs
startup disk

and for the missing windows cd, many are installed on
the
hard drive,,
start
find
files or folders
named "*.cab"
If you get a set of .cab files with almost consecutive
names, driver1 drver2
etc then that folder contains your windows setup files
and you can point
installerzs to that folder during hardware/software
installations.

If you really want a Windows CD, EBay, or your local PC
shop may have one
filed away in the junk drawer, I got Windows 98 SE
retail
from Staples not
long ago(for free it wasnt for sale any more), by asking
the pimply teenaged
clerk to 'just look, please'
not really pimply or a teenager but what the hey.

Self peeled onions are always sweeter
Dos Vdanye

--
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on
the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters


"rooster" wrote in
message
.. .
| I was given a computer by a 'soon to be deceased'
| friend, which they bought 2nd hand through a small
local
| clearing house. It came with no CD, no hard copy
| instructions and missing the interactive tutorial part
| of "Welcome to Windows". I received the gift with the
rapt
| enthusiasm that one would expect from a flounder upon
| receiving a copy of "The Calculus". But I wriggled out
of
| the sand, got connected to the net and did my best to
| escape from Flatland into the ethernet.
| After about 3 months using the "Peeling Onions"
| approach to problem solving, I thought I was about to
make
| a real breakthrough, (thanks largely to having
discovered
| this NG) only to find myself facing what might be a
| classic, "You can't get there from here" paradox, or
not;
| I dunno.
| The creator of my unit, model #En6550, Touchfax
(913-
| 599-669) doesn't "think" they support W98 anymore, but
| will check & get back to me sometime. That my unit was
| made and sold in Canada did not seem impress him as
much
| as I'd hoped, either; eh?
| There are many maintenance & problem solving
issues
| requiring stuff I don't have ,eg., how to fix my
corrupt
| cache(diagnosed by MVP Sandy) or do system backups
(program
| missing, apparently) without a 'reboot disc' and the
W98
| CD? And I am still very confused about organizing files
| and and just knowing what different things do
| since "Welcome to Windows" mat was missing from the
front
| door.
| So, question is; assuming my situation is not
unique,
| where do I go to find sol'ns so I don't waste so much
time
| going up blind alleys and down rabbit holes; not to
| mention embarassing myself by writing epistles to this
| esteemed body of worthies when a couple of lines
should
do.
| rooster
| boundary bay bc
|


.AlmostBob;
I very much appreciated your help. Perhaps I'm not
as
deep in doo doo as I thought. Until now, I thought it was
illegal to buy someone else's W98 program. Paranoia can
make you crazy, eh?

rooster

.AlmostBob, p.s.,
I'd like to save your post in a file, but IExpl
|File| "The page you req'd could not be saved",
happens. I don't think there are any redemption issues
involved, so I must be pushing the wrong buttons. I
emailed it to myself but I got all the postings on the
page, 68KB worth. Is there a trick to achieving this or
should I go to Billy Graham's website?

rooster

-----Original Message-----
There are times when you will want to save a complete
web page out of
IE, and there are techniques to make it smoother, if not
simpler, but for NG
posts, you're much better off using Outlook Express,
which is better set up
for handling newsgroups--the only difficulty is that you
need to go through
some preliminaries:
(1) in IE, go to www.support.microsoft.com/
(2) click 'Microsoft Public Newsgroups'
(3) on the page that comes up, in the sidebar at the
right, click 'Using
Newsgroups'
(4) scroll to 'Using an NNTP Newsreader' (towards
bottom of page)

If you go to the links provided: 'How to configure
Outlook Express for
Internet Newsgroups' and How to subscribe to Newsgroups
in Outlook Express',
you'll find all the skinny you need to get going.

When you 'save as' from OE, you have a number of
choices, but you can
always edit the results if you want, using an external
editor, inserting
notes, doing copying, pasting, and generally cleaning up
and simplifying
what can be a mess.

WRT the saving of web pagesin IE, there are several
ways to do this.
Note that if the page you are trying to save references
a '3rd party
server', i.e., if some part of the page is on another
machine, I.E. will not
save it in this simple fashion, and you may have to do it
sequetially.
If you simply choose one of the choices given you in
the 'Save As'
dialog box, the first one saves it as a complete set of
referenced files in
the selected folder as well as new subfolders which it
creates. See below
for the second selection which is 'Web Archive'.
The third selection will just save the initially
called .htm page. If
all you want is the HTML part, not the directory trees,
the sidebars, and
nice graphics, this may work for you just fine, depending
upon the habits of
the author. Just try it, and if you get an .htm file of
only about 2kB,
you'll probably find that an attempt to open the file
later with IE will get
you 'Page not available', meaning you have to dig a
little farther, but if
it's larger than 2-3 kB, chances are you have what you
want.
If you didn't get the text, you can save the whole
page complete (first
choice in the 'Save as' dialog box) which will give you
the page as a
'calling' HTML page, with subfolder(s), the first of
which is named
similarly to the calling .HTM file. You already know
that the top level
..htm is only a couple of kB, in which case it has
nothing you want. The
real text is found in one of the subfolders created by
the 'Save as' and you
can usually identify it by its size--it's usually the
largest of any .htm
file there, and often the only one.
In either case, you can copy the .htm you think is
the file you want to
another directory (folder), then double-click on it to
have IE display it as
an .htm file. If IE wants to dial-up your ISP, you can
just tell it cancel,
and IE will show the page 'with errors' which means
nothing for your text.
If you get a 'page unavailable', you chose the wrong .htm.
The point of all this is you only need to store one
file of, say, 50 kB
where the complete save amounts to as much as a Meg,
perhaps, with all the
..gifs, etc., you don't want, to say nothing of the
clutter of extra
subfolders. Once you have the .htm that is the text you
want, save it with
an appropriate title, in some higher folder, as an .htm
file. You may then
delete all the stuff you saved before(subfolders and all).
In case you *want* all the graphics, you can also
choose the "save as"
option that saves the page as a 'web page archive,
complete' or .mht file.
The drawback is that it is a large file, generally as
large as the complete
save with subfolders, all told, but it *is* just *one*
file, and is easier
to move and copy, etc.

Sorry, hard to say in a few words,
Good Luck,
Joe
"rooster" wrote in
message
...


Hey Joe; great ideas. Ever write a book? If so is it on
sale anywhere? In Canada? In English?
I've got bruises on my chest from snapping my
suspenders at how clever I was to think to mail it to
myself in OE. I've been trying to work out the best way to
edit the thing and I drug all 68KBs' to a file on D'Top.
I remember tripping over a new editing feature after
installing the Security Update CD which, if I can find it
again, might do the trick in this case; but your Rx looks
like a plan for the future, and beyond.
The question is; do I save your article showing the
best way to save articles now? Or, initiate its
recommendations, wait for the Plinko balls to settle and
then save it?

rooster

-----Original Message-----

-----Original Message-----
Its not so bad as you might feel, Sandi's diagnosis
usually gives the answer
to the problem as well, IIRC the cache can be deleted
after boot up, but
reread her answer to you for the skinny, Missing
backup
programs, not as bad
as you might think as msbackup is a disgusting POS
that
wont really work well
for large backups, wont support cdr/cdrw, better is to
install one that works,
in this search google is your friend

boot disk can be made from windows
start
settings
control panel
add remove programs
startup disk

and for the missing windows cd, many are installed on
the
hard drive,,
start
find
files or folders
named "*.cab"
If you get a set of .cab files with almost consecutive
names, driver1 drver2
etc then that folder contains your windows setup files
and you can point
installerzs to that folder during hardware/software
installations.

If you really want a Windows CD, EBay, or your local
PC
shop may have one
filed away in the junk drawer, I got Windows 98 SE
retail
from Staples not
long ago(for free it wasnt for sale any more), by
asking
the pimply teenaged
clerk to 'just look, please'
not really pimply or a teenager but what the hey.

Self peeled onions are always sweeter
Dos Vdanye

--
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions
on
the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters


"rooster" wrote
in
message
.. .
| I was given a computer by a 'soon to be
deceased'
| friend, which they bought 2nd hand through a small
local
| clearing house. It came with no CD, no hard copy
| instructions and missing the interactive tutorial
part
| of "Welcome to Windows". I received the gift with
the
rapt
| enthusiasm that one would expect from a flounder
upon
| receiving a copy of "The Calculus". But I wriggled
out
of
| the sand, got connected to the net and did my best
to
| escape from Flatland into the ethernet.
| After about 3 months using the "Peeling Onions"
| approach to problem solving, I thought I was about
to
make
| a real breakthrough, (thanks largely to having
discovered
| this NG) only to find myself facing what might be a
| classic, "You can't get there from here" paradox, or
not;
| I dunno.
| The creator of my unit, model #En6550, Touchfax
(913-
| 599-669) doesn't "think" they support W98 anymore,
but
| will check & get back to me sometime. That my unit
was
| made and sold in Canada did not seem impress him as
much
| as I'd hoped, either; eh?
| There are many maintenance & problem solving
issues
| requiring stuff I don't have ,eg., how to fix my
corrupt
| cache(diagnosed by MVP Sandy) or do system backups
(program
| missing, apparently) without a 'reboot disc' and the
W98
| CD? And I am still very confused about organizing
files
| and and just knowing what different things do
| since "Welcome to Windows" mat was missing from the
front
| door.
| So, question is; assuming my situation is not
unique,
| where do I go to find sol'ns so I don't waste so
much
time
| going up blind alleys and down rabbit holes; not to
| mention embarassing myself by writing epistles to
this
| esteemed body of worthies when a couple of lines
should
do.
| rooster
| boundary bay bc
|


.AlmostBob;
I very much appreciated your help. Perhaps I'm not
as
deep in doo doo as I thought. Until now, I thought it
was
illegal to buy someone else's W98 program. Paranoia can
make you crazy, eh?

rooster

.AlmostBob, p.s.,
I'd like to save your post in a file, but IExpl
|File| "The page you req'd could not be saved",
happens. I don't think there are any redemption issues
involved, so I must be pushing the wrong buttons. I
emailed it to myself but I got all the postings on the
page, 68KB worth. Is there a trick to achieving this or
should I go to Billy Graham's website?

rooster




.

-----Original Message-----
Its not so bad as you might feel, Sandi's diagnosis
usually gives the answer
to the problem as well, IIRC the cache can be deleted
after boot up, but
reread her answer to you for the skinny, Missing backup
programs, not as bad
as you might think as msbackup is a disgusting POS that
wont really work well
for large backups, wont support cdr/cdrw, better is to
install one that works,
in this search google is your friend

boot disk can be made from windows
start
settings
control panel
add remove programs
startup disk

and for the missing windows cd, many are installed on the
hard drive,,
start
find
files or folders
named "*.cab"
If you get a set of .cab files with almost consecutive
names, driver1 drver2
etc then that folder contains your windows setup files
and you can point
installerzs to that folder during hardware/software
installations.

If you really want a Windows CD, EBay, or your local PC
shop may have one
filed away in the junk drawer, I got Windows 98 SE retail
from Staples not
long ago(for free it wasnt for sale any more), by asking
the pimply teenaged
clerk to 'just look, please'
not really pimply or a teenager but what the hey.

Self peeled onions are always sweeter
Dos Vdanye


AlmostBob;
I tried your |start|find|files or folders named"*.cab"|
and got my recently installed (and not yet understood)
Winzip app/install'n files in both (C) and My Cmptr.
I tried again without the " " marks, and found only 4
entries:[hhupdcab],2x[Dec2cab.dll Appl-exte] and a
[Wzcab.dll].
Poking about in Help, Advanced search, I found
something called "Windows Installation Pkg", which
contained a large list like [Adblack],[Firewall], [Help]
etc. When I tried to open these entries, I saw."..must be
installed through SETUP".
Does this help me? Or is this onion growing faster than
I can peel it?
And thanks for the spelling lesson. I always wondered
how the Russians spelled "Dos".

rooster
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spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters


"rooster" wrote in
message
...
| I was given a computer by a 'soon to be deceased'
| friend, which they bought 2nd hand through a small local
| clearing house. It came with no CD, no hard copy
| instructions and missing the interactive tutorial part
| of "Welcome to Windows". I received the gift with the
rapt
| enthusiasm that one would expect from a flounder upon
| receiving a copy of "The Calculus". But I wriggled out
of
| the sand, got connected to the net and did my best to
| escape from Flatland into the ethernet.
| After about 3 months using the "Peeling Onions"
| approach to problem solving, I thought I was about to
make
| a real breakthrough, (thanks largely to having
discovered
| this NG) only to find myself facing what might be a
| classic, "You can't get there from here" paradox, or
not;
| I dunno.
| The creator of my unit, model #En6550, Touchfax
(913-
| 599-669) doesn't "think" they support W98 anymore, but
| will check & get back to me sometime. That my unit was
| made and sold in Canada did not seem impress him as much
| as I'd hoped, either; eh?
| There are many maintenance & problem solving issues
| requiring stuff I don't have ,eg., how to fix my corrupt
| cache(diagnosed by MVP Sandy) or do system backups
(program
| missing, apparently) without a 'reboot disc' and the W98
| CD? And I am still very confused about organizing files
| and and just knowing what different things do
| since "Welcome to Windows" mat was missing from the
front
| door.
| So, question is; assuming my situation is not
unique,
| where do I go to find sol'ns so I don't waste so much
time
| going up blind alleys and down rabbit holes; not to
| mention embarassing myself by writing epistles to this
| esteemed body of worthies when a couple of lines should
do.
| rooster
| boundary bay bc
|


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