Windows 98
Windows 98 help and discussions.
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Document generator
by Guest J. Y.- 2 replies
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I use Keyform to generate special documents. However, I have to design the documents on a machine running Win 3.1 because the program has serious problems under Win98. Is there a similar program that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (just an arm is O.K.). and will run correctly under Win98? The minimum that I need is font selection, lines and boxes and extreme zoom. "Extreme zoom" refers to being able to magnify a 3 pt. font to a size that single letters can be grabbed by the mouse. Typical paint programs are out because they usually have rough looking lines and boxes. Thanks for any info. Jack --
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registry setting
by Guest b11_- 8 replies
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Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.
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tooltip display
by Guest y offs et- 2 replies
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I'm using win98SE and it is now 2007. A developing application I use finds conflict with the tooltip display feature and crashes when Windows tries to display a tooltip message. I would like to disable tooltip messages if I can. I can get along without them. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Dead MB?
by Guest Stan- 11 replies
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98 SE; system purchased in '99' Started "Old Faithful" tonight and it won't even run the POST. Least not all of it. I get to a screen that detects the mouse, keyboard and cd-rom and proper amt. of RAM. Or is that all the POST? That's as far as it goes. It just stays on that screen. Does not respond to system setup key; startup floppy never starts. Any thoughts? Thanks
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Shot in the dark 1 2
by Guest Tom Brown- 33 replies
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Hi, I am going to ask for help without being able to give you too much information. I have a friend who has an old computer with Win 98 and he can't open IE. He tells me that when he tries to open it, it gives him and error message that says it needs to shut down because of some conflict problem and then it quits. Any suggestions on where he/I can start to get IE working again. If not, I can get more detailed info tomorrow. Thanks, Tom
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Unable to Register Win98SE online...
by Guest JWBDolphins- 16 replies
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I installed Windows 98 SE yesterday and have been trying to Register it via the online process. I run the registration wizard, fill out all the info, regwiz dials microsoft, authenticates on the network, and connects to the MSN Site. At which point it sits for a few minutes and finally hangs up with the msg: "The Microsoft Registration web site is currently busy, try registering again." The problem is - I've received this message all yesterday afternoon, all last night, and now today too. My Question is - Is Msft currently allowing Win98SE registrations?, did that go away with the dropping of Win98 support?, or is the registration web site just…
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Collapsing Hierarchies.
by Guest Rod- 1 reply
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I have a large stamp image collection in ACDSee using the Windows explorer style folder hierarchy. I am wondering if there is a hot key combination to collapse all the open folders under windows explorer? If so, I can try it with ACDSee as well. Ta.
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msupdate removal
by Guest kpa.anirban@gmail.com- 3 replies
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I am not restarting or shutting down my PC also can not open any exe file or shortcut file. When I Press Alt+Ctrl+Del then a process called "msupdate" is running and you can not stopped it. Also it is showing in startup and you can not remove from it
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Enjoy The Newest Desktop Themes And Keep Your Computer Clean
by Guest lucille barrymore- 0 replies
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Today there are more than 10,000 free desktop themes available on the internet; just download as much as you want and preview the zipped files with DesktopMaster. If you like one of the downloaded desktop themes, install it with one mouse click. Make your OWN desktop themes with DesktopMaster and save them as zip files. Bring the pictures and sounds of your partner, childs, pets, holidays or hobbies to your screen and share your desktop themes over the internet. If you can't watch your current desktop theme anymore reset your desktop or choose a new theme with one mouse click. The randomizer option changes your desktop themes every time when you start your com…
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Delayred Response after Closing IE
by Guest DavidB- 3 replies
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When I close my last Internet Explorer window and click on another program icon (or the Start Menu), the hour glass sits there for almost a minute and one-half (80 seconds) before the requested program starts. I am running a Pentium 233 MHz with 128 Meg of Ram. Is there a setting in Internet Options or elsewhere that I can use to try to fix this delay?
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DSL internet
by Guest lb- 1 reply
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Wondering if I would hit any speed limitations switching to DSL that has an advertised download speed of 7 Meg. I currently am hooked up to cable internet and am having no problems with 5 Meg speed. Any other issues I might encounter using 98SE? Thanks
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Tweaking Shutdown Menu
by Guest DavidB- 1 reply
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None of my three Win98 computers have Power Management capability, yet one of them puts "Stand by" as a choice on the shut down menu. What causes the difference in these menu lists? Can I modify it to remove the "Stand by" choice?
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my sapphire video card cannot enable 3D acceleration
by Guest freestonew- 1 reply
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hi all. Oh dear! I tracked a problem, but I need more help in fixing it. I just bought a new sapphire 9600xt, to replace a "crappy" nividia gf5200. [yes, the graphic improvements are Treeeemendus!] I was somewhat mystified when my Gothic II would stop at the game loading screen when the exe called it up, even though this old card would not work well, i expected to be able to get maybe to the loading screen, at least. my new 9600xt has the same problem! also morrowind will also not load. but baldurs gate II and neverwinter nights will load. at first i thought this was an issue with the new cd-rw rom. The morrowind files has a "program flow" sheet…
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Question about SIMM and DIMM combination in an old computer.
by Guest thanatoid- 10 replies
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Hello gang, I know this is not strictly 98-related but I know there are some real brains in here. As some of you may recall, I have a computer which will be 10 years old in September. It works fine. Really. Please don't just tell me to throw it in the trash and get a new one. When it dies for good, I will. At the moment I need nothing more. {I have a 2GHz machine for things requiring more speed than 166MHz offers (which incidentally - IMHO - does not include accessing the internet).} Anyway, the almost-10-yrs-old machine has a PC Chips M572 MB, with 6 RAM slots. 2 are DIMM, 4 are SIMM. It can take a total of 256MB of memory and the manual p…
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Re: Question about SIMM and DIMM combination in an old computer - UPDATE
by Guest thanatoid- 0 replies
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Re: Question about SIMM and DIMM combination in an old computer - UPDATE Thank you VERY much to all who replied (quite extensively in some cases) to my post and have helped me solve the problem. WARNING: A long and boring description of what I did follows between the two rows of asterisks. ***** I had no idea whatsoever that DIMMs ran on 3.3 or 5V. I have had the 4 16MB SIMMs since the day I got the computer. Of course, my DIMM does not say which voltage it likes, but I read on one site that it really couldn't damage anything if the voltage was wrong ("couldn't damage" meaning, I suppose, AOT just screwing everything up). So the first thing I …
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copying My Documents win98se
by Guest Jack Sandweiss- 11 replies
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What is the trick to copying "my documents" to order to back it up. I've tried removing all of the attributes in DOS to no avail. Jack
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VB40032.DLL file
by Guest SANTANDER- 4 replies
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I've installed one application, but it was too ugly and I want throw it out. It placed all files in C:\Program files directory without creating appropriate folder. I checked setup log and find files it installed. I am not sure for one file: VB40032.DLL - does program installed this file or it has rewrited an existing file? Anyway, can I remove this VB40032.DLL file? Setup start: 2007-07-04 22:53:39 Desktop directory detected as: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\ Installation Path: C:\Program Files\ Created file (1): C:\Program Files\VB40032.DLL Created file (2): C:\Program Files\Autorun Action Flash Help.hlp Created file (3): C:\Program Files\Autorun Action Flash Wizard.exe…
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Connecting 2 Computers
by Guest Curious Guy- 4 replies
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I have a W98 computer with multiple hard drives. This is an old 486 machine. I have a 2nd machine with W2K. What is the easiest way to link these computers to allow access to the files on the old machine from the new machine. This is a 1 user situation. -- CG
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Install error message: Not enough space on D
by Guest Satish Gupta- 3 replies
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When installing Windows 98 SE using the original CD ROM, I get his message: Not enough space on D To install Win 98 on drive C, you need 21 mb of space on D. D has only 1.4 mb To take care of this problem, please remove some files from hard drive. Hard drive is drive C. How would that free up space on D? Actually, there is no drive D, unless it is some sort of virtual drive. When partitioning the hard drive, I put everything in C. In other words, i did not create two partitions on the hard drive. Is that not acceptable and causing the problem? Thanks Satish
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Win98 RD client no longer able to connect to XP Pro
by Guest Karlof- 9 replies
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I have a client that has a WINDOWS 98SE Laptop. He has been using the laptop for years to connect to a handful of XP Pro computers using the Win98 RD Client. Suddenly he is getting the message "The client could not connect to the remote computer ..." on about 50% of the computers he tries to connect to. These are computers that he was previously able to connect with. If I try to connect to these unreachable machines using an XP box I am able to make the connection. Nothing has changed on his end, and the connections are actually saved as shortcuts (I have tried re-creating them on the fly, but this didn't help). Has some windows update occurred on the remo…