This is the screen following the BIOS screen, IIRC, it is the POST screen? A used unknown computer, hard drive had been wiped before, no OS. I put in a W98SE boot disk, message "don't detect any C partition, run fdisk" I ran fdisk, it seemed to go fine, enabled large disk..., no partitions,...

Can someone please explain in clear, direct English, as opposed to what is on the WU site, what loss in OS or IE functionality will result from downloading the latest two security updates? (KB867282 & KB891781) For the previous update, I lost Help Troubleshooter, but managed to bring it back...

I am not a computer technical person, but I am trying to get rid of a Trojan virus thing which has appeared on my PC, which is an HP Pavilion, new in 2000, 650MHz Athlon processor, using Windows 98SE and IE6. It is called "StartPage-DU.dll" and keeps causing my antivirus software (Regularly...

I'm running both Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows XP on my machine. I started with 512MB of memory. Both OS booted fine and all worked fine. So, I decided to increase the memory. I installed another 512MB of the exact same type, size and manufacturer memory. The Windows XP boots fine and all...

Bit of an emergency guys, running Win98SE!! I just tried to install the Google translate program which I got from, I thought, a legit site. After the install, asks me to reboot, think its a virus because it wont let me boot up, when I click CTL-ALT-DEL, everything is gone from the window, I suspect...

According to PC Today, April issue it is a critical update that has as of now not been exploited by hackers. Guys and Gals you need this critical update because I am guessing within 3 weeks someone will find a way to compromise all 98SE and associated 9x machines that need the patch and have not...

I've got Irfanview 4.25 that views almost EVERYTHING, except when I went to view a download archive from security camaeras, .avi, it asks me to go to http://www.fourcc.org/indexcod.html and get the H264 codec When I go to the site, it comes up with Vanguard beta, whose linkno longer works, and...

My Win98SE Computer has the following Specification : Intel Pentium 120 Mhz 40MB RAM 1MB PCI Graphics Card 2No. HDDs Drive C: 4086MB (3871MB free) Fat 32 Drive D: 1025MB (262MB free) Fat 32 Intel i430 FX Triton Motherboard. 5 port USB2 PCI adapter card installed Operating...

According to this site, Microsoft is planning on phasing out the old newsgroups and helping users transition to Microsoft Answers, Technet, and MSDN. What are your thoughts on this. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=6097&tag=nl.e539

See http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=595539 g,d&r... -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

A used old minitower. First run, P133, the bootup screen says: Primary Master Drive: None Secondary Master Drive: CD Rom drive.... Insert system disk....

Hi, I have a Toshiba 610CT laptop (mfg abt 1995) that originally had Windows 95. I installed Windows 98SE (removed HD and put "WIN98" folder from System CD onto C:\ of HD). I have been using a Megahertz 56K PC Card modem (AOK) I have a PCMCIA PC card with USB port (adapter) and...

Wendell wrote recently in microsoft.public.win98.apps: After updating msimg32.dll on Windows 98 SE, Opera 10.54 appears to install and run without any problems. Without updating the DLL, Opera will still run, but gives an error message about the transparency feature. I always find it...

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Hi all,,,, I now have two O/S's, one on my Cdrive, and one on another partitioned drive. I am very happy. I do have one question that sees me sitting in win98 too afraid to reboot. First, my computer as it was:::::::: Cdrive = Win98 O/S Ddrive = Autocad only. Edrive = Playground and where all...

In which folder are the 'INSTALLED' USB drivers stored in 98se? I got a driver file that is supposed to recognise all flash drives.(Whether it works is just a matter of trying it). Presently I can only access a few of these flash drives and they are all 4gb or less. I want to try this file, but I...

This may not be the place and hope you can bear with me. Just reinstalled my 2nd pc with w98se , and in the DM, "Other devices"- PCI Multi media Audio Device, -PCI Universal Serial Device The pc only have Serial mouse, Serial Kb, (56k modem -driver installed) Looking at the mobo, "07/20/1999...

When I discovered that MS keeps Win-95 and -98 NG's, while dumping Win-ME and the German speaking IE group, I couldn't help but wonder about the reasoning behind it. Can anyone here help out with this? Harry.

I'm going to add another HD to my system for more storage (and as insurance, in case the original ever flakes out). This is what I want the final result to be: C: and D: partitions on my existing (40 GB) hard disk to remain unchanged. I will add the second hard drive (also 40 GB), and partition...

How do you restore an older version of the registry in Windows XP? I run Win98 on one of my computers and just had to restore an older version of the registry after letting a reg cleaner program screw it up. In Win98 that is done from the Dos prompt. But I know XP dont have a true dos prompt, so...