I'm sure this is an elementary question, but as a novice computer user, after ages looking thru the help topics, I just can't find the answer. Don't know what I've done, but now when I minimize a window, instead of it dropping down to my taskbar, it drops to just ABOVE the taskbar. Any new window...

Hi, I am currently helping to install some software from a group called Economatics. The software keeps having errors saying that "this is only valid in Win32 mode" or "unhandled exception error" or something about GDI+. The company are aware of the issue which only occurs on windows 98. It...

i cannot hear anything from my speakers or system even though the cd is playing. tried to download media player 7.1 but could not, got error message that my settings need to be corrected. my isp said that i should call microsoft. also how do i get the internet explorer (e) icon to show in my...

This is my teenage daughter's existing machine with W98SE and original video card and NVIDIA RIVA 128 driver where all worked fine. KDS CRT display died and I replaced with Sceptre V5G-Komodo-7 flat screen. Machine then went to default VGA with unchangeable 640x480x16. Found correct driver on my...

I take it the formula to work out how much video memory you need is: Desktop resolution width x Height x Color Depth in bits / 8 (to convert bits to byte) i.e. 800x600x8/8 (for 800x600px, 256 colors ie 8bit) 1024x768x16/8 (for 1024x768px, 16.7m colors ie 16bit) Is this correct?

I recently attempted to re-install W98 (with mixed success and a few problems) If I have Windows Explorer set to "view as web page" then I cannot see any information in the right hand panel. ( It all re-appears when untick this option). This may be connected in some way to the fact that on some...

I have a Windows 98 computer with all of the latest critical updates except for the Directx9.0b. I keep applying the update and the installation history is successfull. However, every time I check Windows Update it says I have to install Directx9.0b again. The video adapter is TNT2 32MB AGP and I...

Sometimes my monitor's display will mess up at random, with (this is hard to explain in words) garbled graphics throughout the screen. If possible at all, continued use is very difficult. Sometimes the monitor seems to go into standby (on but not displaying), but I don't have any standby options...

Help. My windows become inactive for no apparent reason. Also, it minimizes any programs that I may be running (again for no reason). This seems to have happened after I ran Windows update. Any ideas on how to make it stop doing this?

When left idle for a few hours, my computer gets a message, in a large white box, to close. You cant do anything else until you do, and when you do, you get messages saying that the memory is full, and no further actions can be applied. Rebooting always clears the problem. Any ideas please?

Hi All, I do not really believe this is a display problem but this seems to be the most relevant group. I have a client that uses multiple keyboard layouts (Swedish, French and US English) by selecting the proper language keyboard driver from the windows taskbar. She always uses a Swedish...

When I boot up my Windows 98 machine normally I get a black screen that shows my me my cursor as the hour glass but nothing else. I can boot into safe mode fine. Anyone know why my computer is doing this? Thanks, Precision

A friend has a mess of icons in his QuickLaunch bar, some more than once. The same shortcut icons are on the desktop. When I try to help him clear the QuickLaunch area, the corresponding icons also disappear from the desktop. We can't replace the QuickLaunch icons that are required, including Show...

I have had to reinstall Windows 98 SE on my computer and I cannot get the clouds and any other picture type background to list in my backgrounds menu. All of the others that have the cup full of pens or whatever it is are there and everything else on the computer works fine. Please help. Tommy...

Click the + sign in front of the subject line to see responses -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

I have a VB application on the server and I have the workstations running the application from a shortcut. The shortcut is created on the server and it is copied to the workstations when needed. The shortcut automatically takes the icon of the VB application. When the shortcut is copied to the...

G'day guys. :) I've just reinstalled Win98 on my old computer, and for whatever reason I have a few programs that aren't displaying fonts correctly - the characters are appearing as blocks, such as what happens when you're using a character using a font that doesn't contain that character in its...

Every now and then when I start my machine I find that the desktop resolution has reverted to 640x480 and the Icons have all changed position. I'm using Win98SE. Any ideas?

Dear Experts, I have accidently deleted the file called "folder.htt" thinking it is a virus file in my Windows 98SE OS. Now I am not getting the option "view as web page" when I right click inside my "My Computer". I went to windows explorer and customized the current folder to view as web page....

pc went nuts !! re-started it but now the desktop is magnified. I tried to get it back, but system now says that it has lost accessibilty help. What the hell do I do next ??? PLEASE PLEASE HELP !!!