Over the last three days, I've tried to access two separate youtube links on two separate occasions to find the W98 system freezes as the page is initially displayed. No keybd/mouse response. Required a hardware reboot to recover. I don't normally access youtube, but had done so in the previous...

Anyone had experience with the patch from: http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#TZU That is: Q931836.exe Thanks!

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Is there a antivirus that I can download that still supports Windows 98se for my Dell Dimension desktop?

hallo I have two (or to better say more) harddisk on one of them I have w98 on another I have wxp sp2 when I boot on xp the files on the xp harddisk in Explorer are correctly shown in lower case

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.

Got into trouble in trying some W98 utilities. Apparently one of them was a NT type app. In a very reliable W98SE computer, I ran an executable, the machine then rebooted and now gives a DOS screen: ======== file is missing or corrupted; c:\windows\himem.sys there is an error in line 1 of...

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

Recently I've been battling with Explorer invalid page faults in module unknown at 0096:xxxxxxxx module KERNEL32.DLL at 0197:bff9dc19 (recently) 0197:bff7b9f5 These can occur as often as every few minutes, sometimes in the very process of cleaning up after the last event. This behaviour...

I tried to defrag HD from MS DOS, I restarted PC into a MS-DOS prompt, typed defrag c: /f /sd- /skiphigh but got message saying that "this program requires microsoft windows".. So defrag utility does not work from DOS. Defragging from Windows does work, since it constantly restarts and says ...

Win98SE\DualBoot/XP (only 98 goes on the net) 80G h/d, 512Ram nVidia MX/400 DDR Hi, I still see many asking about the 'Updates' and am sure I will see the same for months/years to come. (hopefully this group will still be here, cos' I for one Aint planning to change o/s) Thing is, I dont believe...

I had trouble getting the right drivers installed for my Viewsonic LCD. Essentially I ended up booting up the machine with no drivers and Windows installed a Default Monitor. After finally getting the correct drivers installed on my computer the correct drivers where installed but the computer...

Hi. Reposted in a different way and trying to contain it to one issue: W98se 2.0 GHz P4 40 GB HD-D (near full) 1 GB Sdram PC will not Shutdown or Restart. Must use PC Power off button. PC does shutdown and will restart if I do so by using Safe Mode.

This is a "lead-in", to discussions of why users like Win98. Everywhere on the NET, we find lots of discussions regarding the newer OSs from Microsoft, even here we've seen people expounding upon XPs vastly superior abilities . I think, since we are still using these Win98 OSs, we should have the...

For those of you that want to use various Win-2K updates from Microsoft and apply them to your Win-98 system, this update package has been designed to bring together all those various updates and install them automatically. MD InternetExplorer 6.0sp1 Component Update 3.0 *Windows Script Update...

(I am running Norton Crash Guard.) When I attempt to launch "add new hardware" (either from the control panel or from the 'found new hardware' dialog box), I get crashguard intercepted a crash in rundll32.exe. I tried both terminate and revive - get the additional crashguard error - program has...

There are postings on this group from someone purporting to be "MEB". They generally quote large chunks (or all) of the post they are following up, contain rants, talk a LOT like THIS with lots of WORDS in CAPITALS (or occasionally in *asterisks* or other ways OF emphasiSING). About every three...

I am unable to run Windows 98 SE in normal mode. Fortunately, I can run it in safe mode. When I try to run Windows 98 SE in normal mode then I receive a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death --- grin). The windows fatal exception is as follows: Fatal exception 0D occurred at 0147:0000BC9D I have a...

I have this old pcs in my house both are mickey mouse brands but I have a few files I want to get out of thme. this files are mostly personal info that's why I haven't forget this PCS for all the sensitive info I have there, I even changed the power supply in one of them to make sure I always...

See if there is a "c:\winboot.ini" file. If so, rename or delete it. Ben "Kentiguous" wrote in message = ... In Win98SE I've tried the following, in MSDOS.SYS: =20 AutoScan=3D0