Greetings, We can use kill.exe (Windows 2000) or tskill.exe (Windows XP) to kill/stop running process. My question is how to I do the samething on Windows 98 or Windows ME? Please help, thanks.

Multiple dat files (ie:system.dat & user.dat)change during the operation of any application. It has been my experience that these dat files will change date and time when the computer is booted, but not during use. Could someone tell me if this is normal, or is something else going on here? No...

Under a Security Alert prompt error box I receive one stating, "your current security settings prohibit you from copying or moving files form this zone." Is this a registry error? I am on a network using windows 98 and this error comes up when copying TO the c drive from a Network drive.

How do I add a 'p' to the end of all files within a folder in DOS. I also need to be able to remove the 'p' at a later date with one command string.

explorer caused an invalid page fault in module exlorer.exe at 167:00401f31 encountered when starting -- loads only wallpaper, no taskbar or icons Compaq Win98SE whatever version of IE comes with it(5.0, I think) Why would a computer work more or less fine for 5 yrs. and then encounter this error...

We are currently having the error on MANY machines at work, and are unable to fix the problem. We also have to schedule a task to run every hour to fix time issues. The time is constantly getting way behind, several hours. So we are having to constantly reboot out machines, which causes delays...

Background: I had McAfee VirusScan-9 installed & was trying to run a normal update. The update kept failing. Tried to re-install it. But now all my installation/update attempts fail. So I worked through their troubleshooting steps. I even installed & ran the anti-spyware tool called "Ad-Aware"...

Hi, I have had to re-install Win 98 SE on my PC. I have again configuered Windows for different users, they have, of course, different profiles. But all users have the same icons in the task bar. What have I to do that every user will have his own icons in the task bar? Thanks...

I RECENTLY INSTALLED WIN98 OVER WIN95 AND EVER SINCE THE SYSTEM DOES NOT SHOW THE DESKTOP ICONS, TOOLBAR, ETC JUST THE PUFFY CLOUDS AND BLUE SKY. I'VE GONE TO MICROSOFT SUPPORT FAQ AND FOUND THIS AND TRIED WHAT THEY SAID TO NO AVAIL. CAN ANYBODY HELP?

I uninstalled an application from the Add/Remove applications item in the control panel named 'SearchAssistant', which apparently seemed like a spyware app. The instant the uninstallation was completed, add/remove programs closed and it never opened. The message displayed on double clicking on it...

Anybody know what is causing a window with not found for the above file? What program is it from? Occurs at start up, started appearing recently. No new software added. Any help appreciated, tried other places on web, just get referred to different registry diags programs.

(Excessive cross-posting reduced) Go he http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.htm Click the "Restore NEW Command" link on the left. Direct download: http://aumha.org/downloads/new.zip Unzip the file and follow the directions in the readme file. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems

There is no "install" option when I right click an ini file or ttf font files. I checked the registry keys listed he http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;250430 But they are fine on my machine. Any ideas what could be causing this? -- Spartanicus

==Direct3D is no longer initializing after updating to DirectX 9.0c from 9.0b== After updating DirectX to 9.0c I can no longer access and initialize Direct3D. DirectX Direct3D is not initializing. DxDiag is reporting "Enabled" on everything. Even the nVIDIA GeForce3 card is reporting 2048MB of...

I have a Windows 98 machine which I've set up to be dedicated to run a single program every time it boots. To get the best startup and memory usage performance from it I've modified SYSTEM.INI so that the shell entry points to this program instead of Explorer.exe. This all works perfectly and my...

Hi, my brother's computer is having a little problem when is shuttingdown he gets the following message in a blue screen: A fatal Exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C02A27A8 in VxD VWIN32(05) + 000012D0 after that the computer does not shutdown but freeze. His computer is a HP Pavilion 8660C with...

hi, can u help me please... ill like to know if i can erase freely the contents inside the "c:\windows\applog" folder can i? also what other information inside the windows directory could be wipe in a safe way? i know that *.gid, *.tmp, *.bak can be deleted... what others can go out?

I can't open program and have error "A required DLL file, OLEACC.DLL was not found" How I clean problem? Thank you.

I recently reinstalled Windows 98SE, and since I usually leave my PC on permanently, I never checked about Restarting or Shutting Down. Now when I pressed the Start button, I discovered I don't have a Shut Down option. Any ideas anybody?

Please help ... my file kernell.dll desaper,