A used old minitower. First run, P133, the bootup screen says: Primary Master Drive: None Secondary Master Drive: CD Rom drive.... Insert system disk....

Can anyone suggest an RSS feed reader that has the following features: lean displays messages in plain text organises each feed as a separate database file can save selected messages to user defined database files searchable databases filterable databases can launch selected message in...

A few days ago there was interesting thread discussing what System Resources are. A couple of posters pointed out that System Resources, while it is a special type of memory, isn't the same as RAM. However, no one, as far as I could tell, said what is the relationship, if any, between SR and...

On Feb.25th I posted a request for help in getting "standby" working again. In response to your reply; If you can't solve the problem, I don't think you should reply. I needed help, NOT YOUR SERMON!!!! Respectfully, Leo

A partition, which previouly booted, no longer boots. The message "Invalid System Disk" appeared. There are still 2 partitions that do boot (there are a total of 3 partitions on the harddrive). What do you recommend?

Sorry if this is a double post. My first attempt appeared to fail! I am having a very difficult to diagnose start-up problem with Windows 98SE. The system has been fine for years, with no start-up or shut-down problems. I recently installed Microsoft Office XP. The initial install, updating...

My Win98 desktop has had a problem booting up twice recently. After recognizing the CD ROM, it starts displaying lines and lines of drivers, plus MSD, MSD MSD MSD, etc. After shutting it down a few times, it reboots normally. Is this a registry problem? Other than entering "scanrag /restore" the...

I am running a WIN98 SE machine with a new hard drive installed about a week ago. For some reason every so often 15-20 minutes it automatically reboots on me. No error message or anything, but when it reboots it acts like it was just shut off and runs a scan disk. It is plugged in properly and...

I found out that Sygate is no longer there. It was acquired by Norton. And Sygate's free personal firewall is discontinued. So I downloaded Zone Alarms free firewall. Seems to be working very well. Internet page loading seems to be faster also. But that just may be my imagination. I was wondering...

Yesterday, I updated the latest critical Win98 patches (they were security related) and since then having a strange problem ... here it is. As Windows begins loading, I can see and move the mouse and the hour glass. As soon as the loading gets over, the MOUSE DISAPPEARS and if I touch any key on...

Need some help with this one guys. Bought a Western Digital 640GB 2.5" laptop drive. With all HDDs till now I've been able to FDISK and format and all has worked well in W98SE. I've done this with drives to 500GB. But this 640GB just isn't acting right. FDISK does not read the size properly though...

Yesterday someone gave me a IBM Thinkpad 760EL. OS Win 98SE. It will not boot past the Win 98 screen it just stops there. He said he was messing around msconfig and unchecked something and doesn't remember what. I tried the scanreg/restore in dos but still nothing. Does anyone have helpful any...

My daughter has an old Gateway computer running Windows 98. She says no one wants it because it is slow and obsolete and she wants to turn it into the local recycling place. She is worried about (personal) data on the hard drive. I wonder if reformatting the HD will destroy all the data? My...

Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to...

The following is required to do in the USA only... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914387 How to configure daylight saving time for the United States in 2007 .......Quote....... INTRODUCTION Because of the Energy Policy Act, daylight saving time is extended by four weeks in 2007. This change...

How do you restore an older version of the registry in Windows XP? I run Win98 on one of my computers and just had to restore an older version of the registry after letting a reg cleaner program screw it up. In Win98 that is done from the Dos prompt. But I know XP dont have a true dos prompt, so...

I'm going to add another HD to my system for more storage (and as insurance, in case the original ever flakes out). This is what I want the final result to be: C: and D: partitions on my existing (40 GB) hard disk to remain unchanged. I will add the second hard drive (also 40 GB), and partition...

Windows 98 SE All was right with the world (and my computer) before I tried to download camera software for a camera I received for Christmas. On the reboot, I got a VFAT error. I thought it was the camera software, so I went in in safe mode and uninstalled it, but to no avail. I went...

I suppose we should do this soon, since the Usenet issue is now out of the way. It is only a matter of time... perhaps a few still here and lurking wish to say goodbye. To all: I think we have had a good long and fruitful run here on Microsoft. Lots of good information has passed from those who...

Check it online, here. http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/ If you're prompted to open anything or to permit something to run, = decline the prompt. --=20 Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User