My laptop’s new CD_ROM running windows 98 SE is not working right. The DVD player on my laptop went out so I replaced it with a Teac CD-ROM player model CD-224E-N83 drive and I set the jumpers for Slave and installed the adapter from the old DVD on the back and slid it in. I formatted the hard...

Memory allocation error Cannot load COMMAND, system halted I am installing Windows 98 Second Edition and I have a primary partition and I am getting this error.

A recent malware exploit of Internet Explorer (5.01 and up) and MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) called Download.Ject, has updated protection information released to today by Microsoft. Please see the following articles. "What You Should Know About...

I have 2 DVD drives (E and F) which have stopped working. I get the "E:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready." error message. Same for F. Things I have tried: Plug and unplug to see if one is dead and making both or the other not show up. Results are inconsistent. Sometimes after a...

I have wiped the hard drive of one of my older computers and want to reinstall the OS. a task that I am familiar with but; however, when I turn the computer on I get an invalid system disk error which you usually see if you have a non-boot disk in the floppy drive, obviously that is what I thought...

9X does contain a version providing the same type of functions msvidctl.dll - 470.5kb http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx " What is the Microsoft Video ActiveX Control? The Microsoft Video Control object is a Microsoft ActiveX control that connects Microsoft DirectShow...

Opera 9.5 for Win 98 gives a startup message saying you need a me version of msimg32.dll. ...

I like my Windows 98SE but Intuit no longer supports it for their Quicken and Turbo Tax software. My friend recently purchased a copy of Windows 2000Pro and really likes it and said I can still purchase the software online and use it to upgrade my 98SE. I've always read that a "clean" install...

scbs29 wrote: For my own amusement and to play old games I have installed Win Me into VMware player. Does anyone know of a free anti-virus product that is still available for Win Me ? It is unlikely that it will be connected to the internet but best to make sure. You should have...

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For several days now my puter freezes up abuot every 30 seconds and remains frozen for about 30 seconds. It's not the mouse. When it freezes I click on the caps lock and it does not respond. I've tried rebooting, drafragmenting, anti virus, disc cleanup. Nothing works. Any sugestions would be...

I find this line in the BLA log list of delays, 15:51:11 24.28 Starting TCP/IP (NETWORK\MSTCP\0000) I use dial-up and have no networks of any kind. Each time I open Network in the Control Panel, a msg jumps up saying "Your network in not complete. Do you want to continue". I OK the msg and in...

Control Panel/Add remove programs. Select WMP7 and remove. It reverts back to previous version of MP. " wrote: What is resetting my swap file setting to "allow windows98 to manage virtual memory" from "allow user to manage virtual memory"? Every week it seems like when I...

I am about to do an upgrade. I wish to remain with Win98se, and just use the computer for work, no gaming. Can someone please recommend a suitable Motherboard and Chip I can price. Thanks

As this group seems to be still working, can anyone help me solve a driver loading problem? I have a 1.8 gHz P4, Dell Dimension 4500, into which I have loaded a new copy of W98SE (so I can run some ancient software that doesn't run properly on my XP machine, a completely different PC). I have...

I'm looking for a source for parts ie cmos battery and service manual for this laptop I've done lots of searching and can't find much of details for this older laptop 1988 , it also has problems with the com1 port, I told a family member I'd look at it. man this thing is ancient. I am not...

Hello to all, I set up another Dos shortcut but this time configured Dos to to run in what I believe to be pure-dos-mode. (I did this via right-click on icon, properties, advanced, then ticked MS-DOS mode). I tried it today but all it did was take away icons and leave me with just my wallpaper. I...

Anyone have any thoughts on upgrading win95b to win98se? I have the following on my win95 machine currently: win95b Pentium w/ MMX 166 Proc. 80 mgs Ram 6.4 hard drive Thanks!

This is a Dell L700 CXE, 700 MHZ, 128 MB RAM In normal operation, W98SE uses all but about 4 MB free RAM. I look at my process utilities, see nothing unusual or abnormal. I run few installs, have few that start with windows, same apps that I use on other machines, but they have more memory. I...