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Need help after installing new hard drive
Posted on February 20th, 2005 | 1 Comments

The Hard Drive MUST be seen and PROPERLY recognized in the BIOS before you can do anything. If the BIOS does not see the drive there is no sense trying anything else. You will have to do some...

Need help after installing new hard drive
Posted on February 20th, 2005 | 0 Comments

There was no disk that came with the drive. Jimmy Wrote: -- HJobe71h

Reinstall 98SE - Stack Overflow
Posted on February 20th, 2005 | 5 Comments

"Ben Myers" <benjmyers@mindR-E-M-O-V-Espring.com> wrote in message news:u2eKA3sFFHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... Many hard disk manufacturers have diagnostic software available for download. Maxtor ...

Creditwrench
Posted on February 19th, 2005 | 0 Comments

And the truth shall set ye free http://www.creditwrench-thetruth.blogspot.com/ Uncle Normie

Reinstalling upgrade
Posted on February 18th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Kind of thought that MS would have caught on to that very quickly! Oh well, probably is a way to fool it but I don't know how. Time to spend $10 on ebay for w95... John David M. wrote:

Floppy Drive Does a Seek at Shutdown
Posted on February 18th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Mikhail is correct. If you really want to stop this behavior, you can probably configure your anti-virus not to check the floppy on shutdown by looking for options or preferences within the...

weird characters shown up instead of original symbols
Posted on February 18th, 2005 | 1 Comments

See this article for instructions on fixing the problem with the font folder. Missing Menu Commands in the Fonts Folder http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=133725 I believe that you're on the right...

Win98 Boot Disk
Posted on February 17th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Good catch. By telling it to ignore, I got the Autoexec.bat, the Config.sys and the Msdos.sys copied to the A drive but not the supporting files. You could then extract the ones you needed but...

WinExplorer - two entries for C: - help!
Posted on February 16th, 2005 | 3 Comments

It may return....it often occurred when manipulating files with WinZip, and other apps. I suggest you upgrade to IE6 SP1 anyway, for security, then get all the necessary critical updates. -- Glen...

Windows 98 and eastern languages
Posted on February 16th, 2005 | 0 Comments

My OS is Windows 98 in english language and I need to use Japanese characters. In particular I need to use them in a Visual Basic environment. Is there any possibility to make my OS suitable for...

PCI Ethernet Controller
Posted on February 16th, 2005 | 2 Comments

In addition to Ron's suggestions, you can identify your hardware, often including your motherboard, using the free utility, Everest: http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#everest -- Glen Ventura, MS...

mouse moving to top left corner
Posted on February 15th, 2005 | 4 Comments

From Logitech Question Why does the cursor jump around with my optical mouse? Answer Some dark surfaces may cause the cursor to move by itself or jump to different parts of the screen. Please test...

How do I uninstall Window's98 & then reinstall it? Ihave my CD-rom
Posted on February 14th, 2005 | 2 Comments

You can only uninstall Win98 if you upgraded to Win98 from a previous version of Windows AND during the installation you chose to save the uninstall information. If you did not, then you must...

Is there a standard DUN login protocol?
Posted on February 14th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Michael You are absolutely right about the ISP requiring pure PPP. After some playing around (I'm actually trying to setup a dial connection on a UNIX machine), I simply had ppp start exchanging...

Just a blinking curser on my HP
Posted on February 12th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "kay47" <bkaaye47@47Bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:eiWVFlUEFHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Win98 keeps auto-restarting after shutdown-can't turn it off!!
Posted on February 12th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I had the same problem. Called SBC. Instructed me to disable fast shtutdown. It worked. Hit start Hit run type msconfig hit OK hit advanced put check next to "disable fast shutdown".

Maybe not here..but i need help
Posted on February 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi Paolo, I *think* that this is what you're looking for: Open a folder and go to View>Folder Options and ensure that "View as Web Page" is selected. Click on Apply then OK. Regards,

3D Help
Posted on February 10th, 2005 | 4 Comments

The black line down the right hand side suggests that the image is not centred on the screen. You should use the monitor's front panel controls to make the image wider and centre it on the screen....

putting win 98 on drive E
Posted on February 10th, 2005 | 3 Comments

What I'd do is get a partitioning program, make a fat 32 primary partition, install W98 to it and then use a boot manager to select which OS will start at boot. I use: BootIt Next Generation is...

UPDATE 98 to 98SE - format HD required?
Posted on February 10th, 2005 | 2 Comments

On 8 Feb 2005 16:11:59 -0800, trippknightly@hotmail.com wrote: Does it say Update or Upgrade on the disk? There is a difference but in either case your programs and data should be...