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| | [b]:evil: Hi all,I'm just sorta a newbie at this 2yrs. Ineed help! I put a shortcut of [url]www.321free.com[/url] on my desktop and I can't get rid of it. I cannot delete,rename,or put into a folder,when I do I get the following message: cannot delete file:the filename you specified is invalid … |
| | my browser repetidly says "ActiveX doesn't work properly withthis configuration" ,then i go to Windows update and says "administrators only" What can i do?  |
| | sometimes when i run scan disk, i get a pop up window that says scan disk has restarted 10 times would you like to continue or cancel. do any of you know of any way to prevent this window from popping up in the first place? it's a window 98 … |
| | I'm trying to get away from Windows, and maybe go to Linux...but I would like to experiment a bit, before I commit to a total change of OS's. Is it possible to run 2 different OS's on the same computer? If this is too vague, I can give you more …  |
| | I can't defrag, error message says "drive contains one or more backup copies of FAT, the copies should be identical but aren't scan disk for errors but can't fix the problem, I haven't done any backups I wouldn't know how I can't Defrag and have re-formatted my hard drive twice … |
| | I have a venerable laptop running 98 SE. If I put a music CD in the drive it'll play and function like a real live CD drive. If I put a data CD (i.e., software package or help file etc.) it responds by advising that the drive is not ready. …  |
| | friends, One day when I start my computer it directly goes to BIOS setup (2nd) screen in which a message appears that during the last bootup the system hung up due to wrong selection of CPU speed and the selection is on the CPU speed which has three options (Manual, … |
| | hello my computer is a gateway computer windows vista and it was working fine until yesterday yesterday i bought a webcam and it had that mini cd thing, and i put it into the cd rom. but my cd rom is vertical, so the cd fell into the cpu inside. … |
| | I want to resurrect my old eMachines - the hard drive was bad so I dropped in a "new" one. I can boot from the restore CD to a DOS prompt. Ran FDISK on the 8 gig drive, then performed a format of the drive. No messages about bad sectors. … |
| | i have an application that won't even start up because of a kernel32.dll error. is this the type of file i can move to a different location, download a later copy of, put the later copy of in my system32 file and then reboot and it won't screw up my …  |
| | Help! When I right click my screen to change the properties for screen saver or I go to my start, click on control panel and try to get into anything on the panel it says this: "Windows can not find 'C:\WINDOWS\rundll32.exe'. You may have typed the name incorrectly n the … |
| | In Firefox 2.0.0.20 (the latest version that will work in WinMe), the username and password for Virgin WEBMAIL is prompted, but the identical information for an identical login form for Virgin Broadband USAGE is NOT prompted; and the settings for REMEMBERING the login details are ineffective FOR THIS SITE. I … |
| | my Windows -98 is not installing ,because of small scratch on cd upto 98 % linstallation and stops.. Till toda iwas using windows- xp is tehere any possibility of down loadin win-98 free down loading...? |
| | This is my last resort b4 I throw my computer out of the window! I am still running Millennium hoping to salvage my computer and update to XP. I will be happy to follow directions from someone who can help, I am on my own here. There are missing files … |
| | I was recently given a Dell Latitude CPt which is an old m/c made for Win98 or Me. I suspect that someone has unsuccessfully tried to upgrade the OS from 98 to ME. It tries to boot Windows 2000 Professional, shows a Windows 2000 setup window, but after some time … |
| | Ok, I am having serious trouble with this, so please help me out. bear with my long story, please. One of our computers here at work started doing something funny...it wouldn't start windows. Whenever it was about 70% done loading windows (the version was 2000 NT) it would go to … |
| | I am trying to help my sister who can not start-up Windows 98 on her Compaq laptop. When we turn the laptop on, it goes to a DOS window and tells us that: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Windows Registry or SYSTEM.INI file refers to this device file, but the device file no … |
| | I have another computer with Win98. The keyboard and mouse both refuse to work, but only in Win98. They work when I run a hardware diagnosis or boot setup or whatever. I cannot operate anything in the OS. Im looking to format the HD anyways. Is there a way I … |
| | My PC is ten years old running Win 98 SE, and several years back I bought a CPU from Oregon to increase the speed, and this still works fine. Unfortunately, the PCI Ethernet Controller is bad and I keep getting a message on start up, "needs new drivers for PCI … |
| | I have a problem with the display....It used to run on 256 colors but now that I ran a windows 98 update SE the only two options that I have now are 16 colors and 2 colors.. This is really anoying because every think looks like crap!! Does anyone know … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite X205-SLi2 with Vista Home Premium. Ya, I know. I should be shot for it. I tried to put XP pro on it and finally took it in and they said Toshiba didn't write some dll that can run XP Pro on this laptop. Gates is … |
| | ***RUNNING:windows xp sp 2 ok i ridded a computer of 1021 infected files 23 viruses and 3 droppers. after disinfection internet axcess was damaged , so i re-installed the TCP/IP to the LAN connection and deleted the WinSock and WinSock2 entries and rebooted, (automatically rewriting the entries correctly) and bam … |
| | hi friends, pls help me by posting windows detailed memory map(protected mode) thank u |
| | Hello, I have recently purchased an mp3, and I have Windows 98 SE. I need to know how to add music files to the mp3 player. Can you please give me step by step instructions? thank you |
| | I turn on my pc and it gives me a prompt that says that there is no mouse. There is one. It's got an adapter on the back from whatever connection they used to use to ps2. I need to know: 1. How to navigate through Windows 98 to turn … |
| | [b]I use MSN and for some reason whenever I try to check my email it takes forever and a day for it to open, everything in the email section is extremely slow to open. I have tried everything from removing the Firewall but nothing seems to work...everything else opens basically … |
| | Hi, I am totally novice to vmware, but I have a desperate situation where in I need to run a program that only runs in windows 98 or ME provided DOS. But I need to switch to XP in as it is more stable. Only for running that program i … |
| | Windows 98 no service packs I just installed a new hard drive and modem. I need to change the color settings on monitor in order to install internet service. Problem is that it only gives me the option for 2 bit or 16 bit color and I need higher for … |
| | Can anyone tell me how to remove a password. I recently bought a computer from a friend who forgot the windows password. How can I remove the password request each time I boot to windows? I really want to keep many of tghe programs installed, but if I have to … |
| | Good Day Can someone please tell me if it is possible to disable the "Help and Support Center" starting up when booting Windows Millennium is Safe Mode. It is really annoying as I never use it? Thanx a stack Francois |
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