Windows 98
Windows 98 help and discussions.
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Testing. please ignore
by Guest BeBopaLula- 4 replies
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Sorry about this test, but, no newer newsgroup messages appearing past the "Installation Question - 500GB Hard Drive" post. Must test this OE and server....
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BIOS problem
by Guest McDermotts- 8 replies
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I know this is off subject for this group, but have gotten great info here before and hoping for some help. Please excuse if not proper ettiquette. I have an old AOpen AX6BC motherboard. Per AOpens advise, I tried to install BIOS update so the system would recognize the larger drive I added to the system. During the update process, something went wrong and a message flashed that said "UNKNOWN FLASH TYPE". Since then, the system will not even boot and no monitor. If I turn it on with the floppy containing the BIOS file in the drive it tries to read for a while and then stops. Same thing if I power on with a startup floppy in drive a. Also, if I power with e…
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notepad false error message
by Guest mypcbase@hotmail.com- 2 replies
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I dont have a problem here, but post this here in case someone else face the same situation. Misleading information from Notepad: When i edit (file is windows\inf\applets.inf), select all, copy and paste to a new file, first time works with notepad. paste again to the same target file without quiting, this time doesn't work. The error message is this: "Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available memory, and then try again." but when I apply it to EditPad (freeware), no problem at all. So the problem is not because of insufficient memory, but something is wrong with Notepad error message.…
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System is acting very strange - What do I do? 1 2 3
by Guest John- 59 replies
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Hello. I am using an old Windows 98 computer that doesn't seem to work properly. Apart from all the hard drive and boot problems, there are more problems with the drivers on the computer. Here are the problems: 1. When I finally decided to try it (after some considerable time) it said that it found a permanent hard drive failure. What The? 2. At startup, the sound driver produces this loud 'BEEP'. I have no idea what it is, but it also happens when I insert the PC Card. There is also no sound. 3. After installing a mouse driver from a CD, it told me that the driver would be ready to use - after resolving a conflict. Do I fix it? Yes. But it d…
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Common Windows process names and functions.
by Guest useful_infos@yahoo.com- 0 replies
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http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/processes.html
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Win98se
by Guest J T Owens- 23 replies
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My kids were playing with my older laptop and tried to use the install disk. Unfortunatly they did not complete the set-up process and I don't have an ID Key. Microsoft support would not help me since the version is unsupported. Any way to get a key for this thing?
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How do I fix a jumbled Save File list
by Guest Resident- 2 replies
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When I right click on a picture and select "Save As" the pop up window has the list of files all jumbled. When I right click in that list and do an "Arrange Icons" - "By Name", the list is sorted in reverse alpha. Repeating this does not result in an forward alpha sort. This happens in several applications: OE6, MS Image Composer, MS Photo Editor to name a few. How do I fix this? I'd like the default to be fwd alpha, but I'll settle for getting Arrange Icons - By Name to do a fwd alpha sort. Thanks Oscar
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Re: problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
by Guest Buffalo- 0 replies
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Re: problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help Buffalo wrote: > Adam wrote: >> "Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message >> news:xqKdnTcLQqXWNUnbnZ2dnUVZ_sytnZ2d@comcast.com... >>> >>> "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> wrote in message >>> news:zD0Bi.30856$RX.12257@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net... >>>> >>>> "Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> wrote in message >>>> news:ARuzi.47475$Um6.30359@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net... >>>>> >>>>> "Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message >>>>> news:1ridnaSs_fk2kFPbnZ2dnUVZ…
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Desktop Switched between two hard drives
by Guest SteveG- 6 replies
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A friend has an old eMachines 480i in his office, with two phyiscal hard drives; a C: drive (named "Server") and a D: drive named "Presario." The "D" drive came from a former computer and contains his office management software. Until Friday, when the computer would boot, it would finish up on the "D" drive's desktop. But Friday, we saw that it booted to the "C" drive's desktop. He swears he didn't change anything and using the DOS window, I can still see the "D" drive and all of its files. We have an upgrade coming up on Tuesday of the office management software. As background, the only reason we stayed on Windows 98, was that we had been told, until th…
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How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD
by Guest cjkulow- 9 replies
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Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the e:\ prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a setup.exe file, or similar. What am I missing? I've read several instructions on reinstalling WIN98 and always get stuck at the same point when I am supposed to type "setup". Thanks for any help! I am not DOS savvy - perhaps that's t…
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by Guest ip- 1 reply
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Solution: was "Fix OE errors"
by Guest Rod- 3 replies
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Thanks to all, finally nutted it out thanks to a fantastic forum with a cynosure on Australian Broadband http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum.cfm snipped: I believe Primus News server use Pipenetworks as there upstream provider for newsgroups. Unfortunately, Pipenetworks have recently decided to turn off there news server with little or no notice as they decided it is not worth maintaining newsgroups. There is a thread on this over in the peering forum. The net result is that your posts to the primus news server are going nowhere but the Primus news server. This will only be solved if Primus get a new upstream provider but for now I don't belive the…
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Icon Confusion 1 2 3
by Guest HN@invalid.com- 71 replies
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This is Win98se For some reason there is some icon confusion going on. For example, I have a program called "Hosts Toggle" (to turn on and off the hosts file). Right now, all files with the PDF extension have the icon from "Hosts Toggle". Text files (.txt) have an icon from another program instead of the notepad icon. The next time I reboot, the icons will be different and some other extension will have the wrong icon, for example last night all the ..jpg files had an icon from another folder on my desktop. Everything else is working fine. Why is this happeningt and how do I fix it? Thanks HN
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bad backups
by Guest b11_- 3 replies
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The other day, I tryed to restore a backup registry but, according to Scanreg, all 5 backups were bad. Why would all 5 registry backups be bad?
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Ripper virus removal
by Guest David W- 1 reply
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Hello, I've not used this group before but if someone could point me in the right direction I would be grateful. Trying to fix friends laptop with 98 installed. Gets just past boot up then we get Norton warning (in a DOS screen) that the "Ripper virus was found in memory" and to press ok to continue. The screen then tells me I need a Norton rescue boot disk then shuts down the laptop. I know this seems a bit dense but I just thought I'd check that, given I don't have such a rescue disk nor am I likely to locate it, is there anything at all I can do other than throw the thing away? I could reload 98 if I could find a way to reformat the disc (and find th…
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questions about a Flash drive and windows 98SE
by Guest DJW- 2 replies
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I have some questions about my Verbatim 1 GB Jump/Flash drive I am running windows 98SE When I fill the flash drive up and then trash stuff does it open up space on the drive? Are these type devices more picky about non contiguous space. And if so can I use the Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter to open up contiguous space? Can Scan Disk also be used to right problems? Lastly how do I format it. Do I just right click on it's drive letter in the My Computer Folder and choose format? I am asking all the above because I have been using my jump for a few months now and have deleted some stuff and now when I try to write a large amount of data to it I get a blue screen te…
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My Documents location
by Guest WebAsh- 2 replies
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I'm currently using an old windows 98 computer. And on it the My Documents folder has been mapped to a UNC address that is no longer valid/active as the server that it addresses has been since 'decomissioned'. However, I can't change the location of where the My Documents points to because it seems that because the current location it is set to is not valid it won't let me change it. It doesn't error or anything like that, it just looks like it saves the new location upon hitting OK, but trying to access my documents or opening the properties up again, confirms that it has indeed not changed it... and left it as what it was, the unavailable network address. …
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We can't help if you don't tell us what is wrong?
by Guest Dan- 16 replies
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Are you spamming the newsgroup on purpose or is there another motive. Asking more than once does not usually help your case and like I said in the subject --- tell us your problem with the Ati Radeon 9800 Pro. and we will see if we can help you. It would be great to have a name too instead of unknown especially since all of us unknowns are eventually discovered anyway when we use the Internet.
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Error Msg: "Cannot add the Staff View musical symbol font."
by Guest Steve Lohmeyer- 8 replies
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I used to run Cakewalk 3.0 music sequencing software on my old 446 machine running Windows 95. I now have it installed on my Celeron PC running on Windows XP. It works just fine there too. In betweeen, I installed it on a Pentium II (or was it III?) machine running Windows 98. It worked fine there too. Here's the problem: I recently tried to install Cakewalk on my OFFICE computer, which still runs on Windows 98. It installed all right. But when I launched the program I got this error msg: "Cannot add the Staff View musical symbol font." I'm not sure what that error means, but I can sure see the results. On the screen, in all the places wh…
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system hardware
by Guest ace81- 1 reply
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when i start my system a messege appears in red saying system hardware abnormal it still boots up and run's but it is kinda slow what can i do about this -- steve danbury
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Cloning Win98FE prior to SE upgrade 1 2 3 4
by Guest Teflon- 76 replies
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While I would like the USB and other upgraded support options of SE, I have been putting off upgrading to SE on an older laptop, because, 1.) the FE config is running great & 2.) if anything goes wrong with the upgrade, I don't look forward to reinstalling FE with all the fixes. I don't have an external HDD or a CD burner on the system, so I came up with this plan to clone the C: drive: Remove the HDD from the laptop and install it in a USB external enclosure. Connect the enclosure to my XP system. Run Ghost to clone the C: drive to an external HDD attached to the XP system. Reinstall HDD in laptop. Clean install of SE. I would appreciate kn…
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by Guest ±þÀs¦â¡@- 6 replies
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Exploding window.
by Guest Rod- 12 replies
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When I open http://www.iprimus.com.au/PrimusWeb and navigate down the page on the LHS to....... "Questions..chat with us live on line" A little window opens, with boxes which I attempt to begin to fill in. Suddenly, the window explodes to a size that prevents me navigating the window. eg: prevents me hitting the "talk" button. Any ideas why? Thanks.
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by Guest ±þÀs¦â¡@- 7 replies
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Looking for PCMCIA Wireless G that works with Win 98 (Not Win 98 SE)
by Guest RiptideHD- 1 reply
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Hello all, I'm glad I found a group focusing on win 98! I have an old laptop that still runs great, but it has win 98 and no ethernet connection. I would rather buy a wireless card than a hard wire card for the PCMCIA slot, but can't seem to find one that says it will work with win 98. They all say Win 98SE, or they don't say what OS is compatible at all... Can someone give me a good lead on which card will work with my PC? Thanks! RHD