I am making a Windows 98 Second Edition update CD, It will have on it Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Windows Media Player 10, Tweak UI 1.33, and the Windows updates. I read somewhere that there are 'corporate' versions of the Windows updates. Is this true? Where are they? Also I read that not...

It's Star on your board again!! I have a new install of IE 7. It is a critical update at WU this mo. I went to Microsoft, IE homepage & downloaded the entire file which I'm not sure is the same as what is offered at WU, but I have the file now and can always reinstall when I re-install...

The COME ONE Platinum card is a PMCIA modem that can be used as a LAN adapter, ISDN card or GSM interface. The default is an 56K plug and play modem and so it was installed in a Compaq Armada laptop, using standard MS drivers. Recently I obtained the ISDN adapterkit with the software to learn the...

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file and displays it. Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and Firefox...

HP pavilion 700mhz win 98se Riptide / Aural 3d: Integrated Voice/Fax modem and sound card A couple of weeks ago the sound stopped. I have tried all and every. I have tried a different sound card. And, of course, different speaker systems.

What's the latest version of Quicktime that will run on win98SE, and where can I get it? Are there still things that will run on it? I wanted to watch a video with win98SE and it offered Flash or Quicktime. I chose qt and it said I needed a plug in, and it wouldn't do it automatically, only...

Thank you PCR, I appreciate the information, I made a printed copy for my registry file. The computer is working OK now (time will tell). I reinstalled the program, which caused this mess, and it is also functioning. I don't know if this is proper but when I do the occasional PC house cleaning, if...

Gateway G6-400, windows 98se, integrated Soundblaster PCI 64v using drivers from included windows 98 reinstallation CD. From past posts, you may also need to know it has a Mat****a DVD-ROM that came with the computer whether it helps or not. My display quit the other day after windows98 hung...

girlfriends pc hard drive went belly up so I'm adding a new 160G drive. I tried loading Win XP Pro which was legal company licenced copy. But that disk won't boot up and allow me to install. I have a utility disk I can boot from and get dos prompt but the XP Pro disk still won't run setup saying...

G'day Trendsetters, my nipper is a drum student. We recently purchased a CDRom of Kenny Aronoff, and the sales assistant apologised but he was unable to supply an accompanying booklet of music notation with the CDRom, but that there was an accompanying PDF file, from which we could print. I am...

There are many button on the short cut menu in my IE6. Some I never use and would like to remove, to make more room for my customized menu buttons. All my customized menu buttons, plus a bunch of others, are he HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt However, there are...

Over the years I have accumulated over a hundred duplicate and triplicate items and items never used or no longer on my computer in unchecked msconfig startup. How can I delete them?

I am using a Lynksys wired Firewall router to connect a Broadband Internet Connection to: 1. Win XP MCE 2005. 2. Laptop running Win98, WMP 7 and can connect to Internet. 3. Desktop Win98SE, WMP 9 cannot connect to the Internet. Does Anyone know why? IE (6) and OE and Forte Agent work fine on...

Hi I have a 5 yr old IBM aptiva which is currently running the Windows 98 OS. For some reason the computer went into start up mode and has prompted to reboot from the ATAPI disk. The only disk i had was the product recovery and diagnostics disk which accompanied the system at purchase,...

Does anyone know of a handy utility which can save the list of folders and files in a directory with their long file names? The DIR command only outputs 8.3 filenames. Thanks, Ivan

Hello, I have Windows 98 with dual boot with Mandriva Linux 2007. My problem is that Windows 98 keeps erasing my MBR, and thus it destroys my lilo bootmanager. How can I stop him from doing that? thanks, Felip

I just wanted to say that Dan W. is still here and I am just super busy. Take care and bye for now.

1) Sometimes Windows Explorer resets itself. (After I Ctrl-Alt-Delete on Internet Explorer?) Anyway, after Windows Explorer resets itself, when I try to view a folder, I get the default settings (view NOT as web page, large icons, arrange icons by name). How do I set it up so that the default for...

If you use the "find" search system under "start," you get a list of files. How can that list be exported to an Excel spreadsheet? ...or printed out? I have an IBM ThinkPad A20m 2820 running Windows SE. Phil James

I was stupid and downloaded a program that messed up my Windows 98 computer. After downloading this program and running the application, at reboot I got a message oleaut32.dll file cannot start. Then I got a message that vsmon has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.(vsmon is...