Windows 98
Windows 98 help and discussions.
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Maximum memory on Win98
by Guest Paradoxdb3- 10 replies
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Did I hear correctly that Windows 98 cannot handle memory more than 512 MB? If I'm wrong, what IS the maximum memory for Windows 98? And what happens when that "too much" limit has been exceeded?
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Software Compatibility (kids games) with Win 98SE 1 2
by Guest skibuz- 37 replies
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I have brought my old Win 98 SE back to life for my grandsons (ages 5 & 6) to play their internet games (specifically http://www.totaldramaisland.com). I worked with MEB on the Win 98 Networking forum and he was very helpful. I have now performed my Windows Updates, installed IE6, Avast Antivirus, Kerio Personal Firewall. Installed Flash 9 (which shows up in Add/Remove programs as Adobe Flash Player ActiveX). Additionally, he suggested I install SUN JAVA. At the http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp I found Jave SE Downloads-Previous Release_J2SE 5.0 I can find J2SE API V 1.5.0 Beta1, J2SE API V 1.5.0 Beta 2, and J2SE API V 1.5.0RC, but …
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How do I correct spelling in Company Name?
by Guest Robert A. Macy- 13 replies
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Dyslexia strikes again! Soemwhere during installation of MS Office 2000 on my Win98SE, I misspelled my company name by inverting two letters. Went unoticed for eons. Now, after noticing this error and upon creating a file, I have to manually go to the new .xls, .doc, and ?? file, click on 'Properties' and correct the spelling. Sometimes forget. I don't want to reinstall anything, because everything is set up just the way I want it [except for spelling]. Is there some simple way to change the spelling that appears under 'company name'? Robert
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FLV Player
by Guest SANTANDER- 6 replies
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what is the most handy desktop FLV Player for win98?
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Open Office update
by Guest MEB- 0 replies
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Just a FYI. OpenOffice.org has issued a new version to address vulnerabilities. If using the program check the update on the site. -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.org a Peoples' counsel _ _ ~~
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Program path
by Guest Santander- 1 reply
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Some programs by default installed to C:\Program Files\Common Files\ProgramFolder\program.exe\..., not into standard path C:\Program Files\ProgramFolder\program.exe. This path used intentionally. Why?
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98 bootable diskette with usb drivers to access cdrom driver
by Guest Biggseye- 4 replies
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I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98 on it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive. anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe that i am the only person that has ever had this issue.
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Windows 98 Product Key
by Guest LJDixon- 2 replies
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I was on computer today and went to shutdown computer when I was done. The computer shutdown then restart requesting information as if I had reformatted the computer. It asked for name and company then product key code which is back of CD package. I bought this computer used and didn't receive any of the software discs for it. How do I go about getting a new product code or retreiving my old one? Any help that anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day!
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Cannot sign in to messenger or load hotmail sign-in webpage login.live.com Getting Network timeout for hotmail and Msn instant messenger will not work. Tried trillian. It kind of worked, but kept knocking me off every few seconds. What is odd, it works for people that have direct connection but not dial-up. My mothers work can access hotmail. They have wireless access. The two dial up ISP, I tried timed out. I checked my host file, there is nothing that would block it. I tried different browsers and neither worked. Greg
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Threats to your Internet usage - what, why, and how
by Guest MEB- 4 replies
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Many users of the Internet believe that because of the billions of users, they are protected from malicious attacks. These people apparently fail to understand the WHAT, HOW, WHY some of these attack activities occur. Others believe that the protections offered by the OSs somehow keeps these malicious activities from occurring. Hackers LOVE these people, they are the "meat and potatoes" of the hacker world. I've posted things like "clickjacking", linked sites, SSI {server-side includes}, embedded code, and other methods in this group, however, there still seems to be a lack of comprehension of certain points. Here's a link to one site which deals with so…
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Is there a hard drive file organizer that will ... 1 2
by Guest 98 Guy- 37 replies
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Is there a hard drive file organizer, optimizer, "cleaner", that will a) identify multiple copies of the same file based on - same file name (but perhaps binary identical, perhaps not) - different name, but binary identical and either follow your rules (eg smart rename) or allow you to easily move them around or delete the duplicates b) identify, catalog or list the version numbers of multiple copies of the same system files (.exe, dll, etc) The goal is to use such software (instead of manual exploration and file cutting and pasting) to organize and aggregate the contents of possibly up to a few dozen hard drives. Most hard drive file o…
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WMF patch - gdihook.dll infected by trojan?
by Guest Franc Zabkar- 21 replies
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I've been using Paolo Monti's "GDI32 / WMF Patch" for nearly a year now but it was only recently that AVG told me that the gdihook.dll component file was infected with the BackDoor.Hupigon4.ADUA trojan. A scan at Virustotal resulted in 18 out 36 antivirus software detecting the same malware. Symantec and TrendMicro were two that didn't detect it. I'm wondering whether this is a false positive. Here are the results: http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/gdihook_dll_scan.htm The package is delivered as a single install.exe file. When this file is scanned by Virustotal, Sophos identifies "Sus/Madcode-A" malware. All other antivirus products detect nothing. I…
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email retreival comcast/smartzone
by Guest mmason- 5 replies
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Comcast is our internet provider and recently changed its email server to smartzone.We cannot retreive email as the folloeing message occurs " serv 32 casued an invalid page fault in modulemsncrt.dill at 017f:7800c9d3. We did not have this problem until the server downladed the email program. Solutions? is this incompatability with windows 98?
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Accessibility Wizard
by Guest AnneLee- 2 replies
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I wanted to make the text on my Inspiron 1520 Windows XP (I running Windows 6.0) just a little bit larger, so I used the Accessibility Wizard. Instead of increase my font size a bit much, it is 10 times larger. I tried a number of times to re-do the Wizard but it would go back to my original settings. I cannot even see 1/3 of an article on my screen. It deleted my background (which I can reload) but I don't know why it disappeared. When I turn my computer on, click on IE, everything looks normal until instead of the page with my background and the icons I use, I have a complete white page with the icons I use. The icons are of normal size but when I cl…
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Looking to upgrade... XP or Vista??? 1 2
by Guest nj_annie@golfilla.info- 31 replies
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Hi.. I've had Windows 98se for many years and I'm looking to get a newer PC. I see that MOST of the systems today come with Windows Vista. I do see an occasional PC with XP but it is usually one that is on "clearance". If I do get a newer PC, which operating system would you reccomend? I have heard quite a few people say that they didn't care much for Vista and I was wondering why that is the case? Thank You Annie