there is something wrong with my direct 3d,it was fine but recently when i tested direct 3d in dxdiag the first test fails withe message 'test failed at step 42(query for d3d):HRESULT=0x80004002(no interface)' System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 9/1/2004, 10:04:17 Machine...

Something changed all of a sudden, maybe when a game was loaded for my kids.... One day fine, the next all windows are too large for the screen. As a result, on some windows I can't select the options on the right hand side and in some cases am unable to move the scree left. I tried the Display...

Is there a way, other than right clicking and deleting or hiding an icon, to get rid of the running programs?

My Symtray/Notification area icons have gone tiny, also max and min bottoms at the top. Everything else is correct. Any ideas please Thanks, David B

My computer got all screwed up when a friend visited an advertisers web site. I deleted everything off my hard drive and reinstalled windows 98, but noe my display resolution won't change from 16... it says I have the most recent driver for my video card and that it is functioning correctly...HELP!

The Named: box includes a pulldown arrow at the right hand side. Typically, when you click on this arrow, you get a list of all the entries you have made in the Named: box. I am trying to clear this list (history). Does anyone know how? Thanks

I have tried to transfer photos from my digital camera to my computer, but keep getting a fatal exception message. It reads ' A fatal exception OE has occurred at 0028:FF054203 in VXD USBSTOR(01) + 0000163'. Does anybody have any ideas on how to rectify this?

Whevever I use Safe Mode, Windows 98 rearranges my icons on the desktop. Is there a way to save my desktop configuration so I can restore it when this happens?

None of my Win98 computers have Power Management capability, yet one of them puts "Stand by" as a choice on the shut down menu. What causes the difference in these menu lists? Can I modify it to remove the "Stand by" choice?

I would like to click the mouse to cause a sub-menu to open, rather than have it open automatically when the mouse hovers over a menu item. How do I make that change?

When I close my last Internet Explorer window and click on another program icon (or the Start Menu), the hour glass sits there for almost a minute and one-half (80 seconds) before the requested program starts. I am running a Pentium 233 MHz with 128 Meg of Ram. Is there a setting in Internet...

I have windows 98SE, using the ATI 7500 and the viewsonic 22" LCD. If I use the DVI connector, a funny thing happens - windows outputs a resolution HIGHER than what i set it at, so that I have to use the mouse and push against an edge to see all of the screen. For example, if I set the rez at...

my dad has fnished making me a new computer. i installed windows and motherboard drivers and my raedon graphics drivers (raedon and the motherboard are not plug and play) and im on my desktop and the picture has horriztal streaks across it.can u help

system was working fine. somehow I now have large icons and my colors are messed up. Ran a diagnostic and got this: Frontend DC failedID error code 014005001 can also answer to

I recently changed the driver on my Nvidia Riva tnt2/64/model pro 64 video card on a FIC-PA-2013 M/B. I now get 5 rows of vertical white dots when I'm going through the POST section of bootup. The dots are also present when running a movie with windows media player and also in games. I have...

I seem to have lost the driver for my graphics card! I can only start my PC in safe mode which doesn't left me access my CD disc drive so I can reload my graphics card's driver. I can access my floppy disc drive (A). I stuck, and need help.

Hi everyone; Embarassed to ask but could someone tell me how to put a volume control on my taskbar? I appreciate any feedback.Thanks very much, Deb

i purchased my computer at a hospital auction. i wanted to delete the icon"nieghborhood network" from my desktop because i have no use for it, but when i right-click on it, there is no delete option...there is, however, an option to "disconnect neighborhood network"...will this delete the icon and...

When I start up my computer it says: IF you can read this message windows has successfully installed this display adapter. To use this window as part of your desktop open the display option in the control panel and adjust the setting on the settings tab. How can I get out of this. I cant go no...

G'day guys. :) I've just reinstalled Win98 on my old computer, and for whatever reason I have a few programs that aren't displaying fonts correctly - the characters are appearing as blocks, such as what happens when you're using a character using a font that doesn't contain that character in its...