I have a 1999 Fujitsu with 512 mb upper limit for RAM and a 1.3 ghz CPU. I have spent time and money stretching it with a bigger hard drive, more USB ports, a graphics card and doubling the RAM from 256 mb, and also by trying many Linux distros (including XFCE versions), along with XP, W2K and...

I wanted to run System File Checker, read that it is in System Tools. I just looked in Accessories, there is no System Tools folder! ?? I just used Scanreg/restore, the oldest registry is only a few days old. And nothing has happened on this machine in the past week, so I believe the Tools...

FW from Security.Homeusers NG. -- ~PAÞ Shenan Stanley wrote: JAMES BLONDE wrote: The following pops up when I go to open different programs: unable to load module PKArchive70b.dll

I support some applications that run on Win98 and I want to get a new computer. However, Intel has apparently abandoned supporting Win98 on its new chipsets. Has anyone installed 98 on an Intel 945 motherboard? Are there problems. I would eventually dual boot with XP Thanks Pete

Milkro$oft has made a fix available for the IE VML vulnerability. Now they won't come out and tell you this, but the new VGX.DLL file for Win-2k works just file on Win-98. Details: Secunia is showing a variety of MS links depending on your OS: http://secunia.com/advisories/21989/

Hi, it's me AGAIN. Sigh. Everything is just great but I am getting the following error (not a BIG deal - all the tray icons disappear but everything works unless I try to start a new program - and it used to happen with the previous install as well...). Also, I am PRETTY sure the culprit is...

Why are nearly all of the messages on this site not available, I used to browse through old messages and could access all of them. Many thanks Steve

I have used Win98 since 98. I really didn't care to upgrade, but it seems there's just too much stuff that dont work in 98 anymore. I just bought another (used) computer with XP installed, and will keep my Win98 computer as it is. That way I can use either one. The old one was too slow for XP...

FWIW, even though I though Gary was a jerk and we had a serious and permanent falling out within a few days of our first thread, I find the current jokes and general discussion of his "status" in poor taste. No one knows where he is or how he is and I think you should drop the subject. I for...

Hello Brian, some odd things going on I cannot see a way to process my startup device drivers, nor process the startup command file which I am to set to no, but do not the options I cann set the Load Windows drivers switch to yes or no - but that does not help also brian

Emrys Davies wrote (in alt.windows98) My wife is using my 15 year old PC and it has a fault amongst many as you will expect but can you help with this one? It is a Win. 98 SE with a C Drive capacity of 19.1 GB of which 5.47 GB is used. It has 384.0 MB of RAM and 65 per cent of this is...

The following CD's can be available to anyone that wants them. If anyone asks for a specific disk, I will upload it to Filepost.com and then post the links. Anyone can freely download stuff from Filepost.com. So all you have to do is ask... ------------------------------------- Disk A

I just bought an used Dell Latitude D620. It has Windows XP in it. I would like to use Windows 98SE with it instead. Accessing the Dell support site (US), there are drivers for Windows 2000, Vista and XP, there is no Windows 98. In fact, after browsing many older latop models (Latitude,...

I like the comment field in the .jpg image format; if viewing an image in IrfanView, I just type I then C, and I can add comment text, that then actually becomes part of the file, thus surviving any renaming, zipping, even emailing. (I use it a lot in listing who's who in group photographs ,...

Can someone please help me resolve my problem? Upon starting MS Windows 98, I see the MS Windows screen then it appears to start loading programs as usual, then i get the above ERROR message. I then restarted via SAFE mode, but there were no desktop icons. Upon checking Program Manager, I only...

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

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...

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...

Since the original thread was getting deep and so as not to make anything more confusing than it has gotten, I am posting the relevant info for ms's system so others may help in getting the proper drivers if they wish to help out. Computer MS (MS) ...

Successful Thursday, March 10, 2005 Security Update for Windows 98 (KB891711) Web site Successful Thursday, March 10, 2005 Security Update for Windows 98 (KB888113) Web site I see no problem with the second of those, but KB891711 is causing a problem on my machine. It places KB891711.EXE into the...