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I'm looking for a driver for my usb flash/mp3 drive.
I can't find it anywhere.
The driver did not come with it.
It doesn't say the manufacturer's name.. but it's from china ..
it can play Mp3s, and can store data ..
it works with XP with...

I have attempted to upgrade the RAM in a Compaq Presario desktop PC, and am made aware of a POST message code that appears right near the start of POST.

The system boots OK with the single 64MB stick of PC100 memory, but fails to get past POST...

Os 98SE, when trying to update Office 2000 premium, I get asked to insert original cd (which is damaged) - looking for file DATA1.msi. Is there anywhere I can download either this file, or the full Office 2000 - I have contacted Microsoft - even...

I want to download ie6 for all o/s(win98/winme/winnt/win2000). I'm using win98. When I went to the site and download it is only downloading ie6 for only win98. is there any way?

Can anyone tell me what files are located in the Boot Image of a Retail or OEM Bootable Windows 98 CD-ROM.

I would like to ascertain these files to build a bootable CD of my own.

The way to obtain these files would be to boot the Windows 98...

I am working on a vbscript that will open the excel file and re-save it as a .xlsx file. The reason why I am doing this because the file is very large and saving it as a .xlsx reduces the sizes tremendously. My code works does create the file but...

I am reinstalling Autocad 2002 and noticed that it will not reinstall for some strange reason. It says that 'this program has performed an illeagal action and will be closed. Now I have used this program for a year. I had only once been required...

Hi. i hav a windows 98 SE install cd. Prob is, i leave my cds lying around all over the place and now my case is lost. so how do i retrive d cd key from d cd. , cuz i want 2 reinstall windows on 1 of my pcz.i know how 2 bypass d cd key(by...

I have aol 9.0 optimize dialup and windows 98. My favorites disappeared, how can I get them back are they stored on the pc?

 Hi, i was wondering if how can we can disable the Address in the windows explorer? cause everytime i open a folder the addressbar still appears.

How can I make a hard drive bootable to a command prompt.  I have windows xp.  It used to be format /s or sys, but that is long gone.  How about a link to dos installer.  Everything I have found wants a floppy, and I don't have one.

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Being the top computerguy in my family (that dosent really not say so much ;-) ) I have been called to my father-in-law´ computer.

It wont start up. When started Scandisk appears and start
scanning. When it gets to 3....

Hi All,

I have the following problem, any 1 can help me without format my Hard disk
Currently I using windows 98.
Before go into windows came out 4 Messages, these 4 error messages are:


Cannot find a device file that may be need to run...

Hi,

I am getting following error in IE 6 when trying to signup for digital certificate at VeriSign web site.

'The 1024 bit key generation failed. This may be due to an installation problem'

After that I clicked on Ok button and got the...

I work for a restuarant chain with XP pro as servers and Windows 98 clients for cash registers in each location. Most of these are remote and I need a way to change the time zone from Indiana East to Eastern Standard time, without visiting each...

I have a couple of computer running Windows 98 that I'm trying to setup on a print server.  When doing so I try to use the "Standard TCP/IP Port" as I did with my other computer.  The only problem is that on a couple of them they do not have...

 I want to open a pdf on click of a link in ASP.NET and user shouldn’t be able to copy/paste/print any info in pdf. To achieve this I am trying to open the pdf in an iframe so that I can disable the menu bar, navigation bars of pdf but when user...

I have a Windows 98SE operating system.  About 3-4 weeks ago I began to have problems with my audio system with loss of sound but only under certain circumstances which I’ll describe.  I use a headset with headphones and a microphone.  I can...

Hey guys.

My sister just sent her laptop to change it to a localised version with Arabic enabled.

The guy at the pc shop said that he would install an arabic version of win98 but a localised version... meaning the whole system is English...

Machine: Compaq Presario 7922
OS: Windows 98 ver 4.10.1998

In the device manager under "other devices" there is on device, "PCI Bridge." The device status is as follows:

"The drivers for this device are not installed (code 28).."

My...

I tried searching EE for this topic but to no avail, if ever there is one, i;ll be glad to know the link, thank you.

this is my problem, I'm using the Windows 98 Second Edition with the units in  my little internet cafe business. It's so...

How do I recall a hotmail e mail

Bit of a strange problem. When I try and close Outlook it hangs on the outlook is closing down window. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del shows it is still running. The only way to get rid of it is End Task at which point the Task Bar usually freezes up. Then...

What is the command to set a system environment variable from a batch command file ?

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   Can anybody tell me where can I find "Windisassembler" and I want to download it for free.If you find one please tell me.<gebenezer@rediffmail.com>.

I need to install win 98,I have lost the product key.The hard drive that I am using is new.Is there a way of finding the product key on the disc?

I need to convert a file from Lotus WordPro to Microsoft Word. What is the best way to perform that transfer?

I have a folder in which so many files
and there are all files name starting with "COMPACT -"
its mean all files names are like this..
COMPACT - *************
COMPACT - XXXXXXXXXXXX
COMPACT - YYYYYYYYYYYY
COMPACT - ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I want to...

Hi to all expert here,
     I am currently using Win98SE as my OS. Recently bought a USB 128MB Flash Drive from the net but found that the driver included in a CD was unreadable. Tried to get back to the seller but the seller is not responding....

Thank for reading this question. I would like to know more about tablet pc's  function, advantages and disadvantages.
Can you tell me some information or websites of it?  

i recently downloaded a file that has a wps file extenstion  blahblah.wps does anyone know what i need to
open this file or what kind or file is it?

Hi,
Is there a way to change the language of the Windows 98 without reinstalling the OS. For example, a machine is installed with Korean Windows 98 and how do I change the language to English without reinstalling?

Thanks. :-)

I have a question regarding FAT32 clustersize and partition size. Microsoft indicates the following for partitions:

< 8 GB : 4 KB clusters
8 < 16 GB : 8 KB clusters
16 < 32 GB : 16 KB clusters
>= 32 GB : 32 KB clusters

Maximum size = 2...

I am very new to computers, and don't know or understand most lingo.  I was given an old computer running windows 98.  The computer had set idle for several years, so after finding windows update, I downloaded all that was available.  I live in...

I'm running Win98SE and Norton Antivirus tells me that windows\system\wnmngm1.exe is infected with a Trojan Horse, but is unable to repair the situation.
How do I proceed?

hi i have a laptop which im going to format and put win98 se on it, but i have to problems the first being that i dont have a code for the disk and its the offical disk not a copy, & my other question is once its formated willthere be a bios or...

I need to resize a window larger than screen resolution or size of desktop, programmatically & preferably also manually.

-------------------------Examples:

Specifically for now, I need to size an Internet Explorer window taller than the...

I have a legacy database on a Win 98 machine, maintained for compliance reasons. The hardware on the Win98 PC failed, and nobody seems to be able to find original software discs.

I am looking for a solution to
1. extract the image of that...

I have a ten-year-old system, which, by and large, has been very good over the years. It's still behaving itself really quite well, but for some reason it has suddenly started turning itself off immediately I press the power switch to boot-up...

I have a machine with Win98. The hard seems to have generated bad sectors. Each time I start the machine it scans the disk trying to fix the problem but hangs/freezes during the scandisk. I can bypass this by cancelling scandisk.

But is there...

Does anyone know of a Windows 98 virtual desktop program or a way to change the registry to get a smaller Desktop area than 640x480. Is that even possible?

I want to get a desktop screan area of 534 x 400.

If anyone has any ideas, it would...

There is a Windows 98 box running in my environment. It is old and very important to keep it running (maybe for ever), but it is impossible to reinstall the application.
My VMware environment: 2 ESX 3.0 connect to SAN (NetApp) using iSCSI. I...

I have a Dell gx270 the mother board has no markings of the model.  I need to find win98 drivers for this machine.  If anyone knows the model that was used please help.  The board has 4 ddr dims, 1 pci slot, 6 usb on back, 1 lan, on board sound,...

I have a password to join a unix shell. The computer has saved it. It will auto join the shell. But all I see is Password: **********
I am have forgotten the password. I am afraid if something goese wrong with the settings, I will have problem...

Hello,
I upgraded my memory with 2 chips of 128MB (PC100) in my compaq 5240 (with windows 98). It appeared to start ok and work for one session. It showed available 320MB RAM.
However, when I ran "defrag" utility, the program aborted. After...

I am looking for Win98 Drivers for my 3com 3CRUSB20075 USB Wifi adapter. I cant find any, looks is if there are not any for this device. Anyone here have any solutions?

How to convert a EXE to CAB file format

I have a NEC 9910 Model, PII 450 MHZ, 128 MB RAM, Windows 98.  My PC freezes on boot up, it only detects my Hardware and that's it, it didn't do anything else.  Here is the actual display on the screen: "Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 Pentium II...

Dear all,

i would like to find soultion on how can i find all in one driver or plug and play patch or driver for win98 so that i can use any type of brand usb drive, handy drive ?

anybody knows how to do it ? please let me knw..

I have upgraded a machine to XP.  I have several Windows 98 machines that need to share information with XP, as their server.  I am encountering an error "an extended error has ocured" when I try to \\host, or map a drive.

The time and date...

When installing Virgin Media ADSL Broadband (http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/noncable.html), is it possible to just download and install the modem driver from the address below, *without* using the Virgin Media CD?  I'm using...

When I enable Active Desktop, I get the message:
Internet Explorer cannot find the Active Desktop HTML file. This file is needed for your Active Desktop.

To turn off Active Desktop, Click OK.
---Clicking OK is the only option.

My question is:...

Compaq System

At the first screen I get the Compaq logo and in the upper right hand corner I see the following:

E0  301 Keyboard Error

After all of the startup items are completed, I find the keyboard to be working perfectly.
...

Is there a web site where I can find most drivers use by Win98? I want to put all or most of them on a CD so that Win98/Win98SE OS can find the required Win98/Win98SE drivers as it is booting.

Thanks!

I just installed a new Soundcard into my PC.
Creative SoundBlaster Live! Digital 5.1
Model Number SB0220

I installed the driver which was on the CD. It works fine except that I get no sound if an application requires Wave, DirectSound,...

I am trying to fix a machine running Windows 98se.  It has http://proxy:8080 on it and I cannot seem to access the internet from my cable.  I changed the lan setting to automatically detect setting.  I have done ipconfig release/renew.  I noticed...

In Explorer, when I look at a music cd (in Detailed View), I see a listing of track numbers, but all their sizes = 1 Kb.

If I want to copy some tracks in Nero, the browser window where you select the files you want to copy has the same thing:...

i am a newbie i don't about this

i have two files appearing in my computer desktop.ini and folder.htt. i heard they are virus. how to remove them.

How do I do a Repair Install in Windows 98SE? Please reply with a step by step answer until the point the install actually starts. Do not JUST provide a link to www.windowsreinstall.com . There are no repair install directions there.

You can...

where can i get wipe the utility for clearing partitions on a HD?

Where can I get the Helvetica Font for use in MS Word 97?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Windows 98??

Until lately I was able to defragment on a weekly basis. Yesterday I tried and first got the message when I was 68% complete that I would have to scandisk. I did successfully, defragmented again, and at 14% was told to scandisk again. It became a...

I now have an HP Pavilion XE749, and no where can i find any type of driver, i have tried driverguide.com, drivershq.com, and of course hp.com, as well as searching through google.  I took this system back from windows ME, to windows 98 SE.  
...

I'm working on a computer that I got for my daughter. Windows 98 doesn't recognize the CD Rom.  I have tried quite a few things.  I for one, tried a start up disk that I got from this computer.  That didn't work.  I did find out that the Himem...

ive got an old machine running in our server room with windows 98 on it.  i keep getting message appearing telling me that an illegal action has occurred.  i cant find anything on google and im unable to get into the event viewer.

i dont have...

Client has a 1 year old Terminal Server (Windows 2008 R2 SP1 ProLiant DL380 G6 24Gb memory).  It has required a reboot during working hours approx 1 per week as it will not allow more users to logon.  This issue began approx 3-4 months ago.
When...

Hi everyone,
Does any one know how to set a password on HP HP M4345 MFP printer on the printer or though the webs interface.
Thanks

IN w/98 I click on start/run type in "msconfig", click "OK" select "Startup" tab and then proceed to do whatever I wish to the startup list. How do I acheive this in w/95?

When startup the message show ...
Write Fault error writing device AUX
     Abort,Retry,Ignore,Fail ?

What heppen and what should I do?

At web sites that have links for sending e-mail to the web site owner, when I click on the e-mail link a message window appears that says, “default mail client is not properly installed.”
      In Win 98 my only web browser (IE 4.0 with IE 4.01 SP2)...

Hi,

I cannot get into windows even in safe mode because explorer doesnt load. Is there any way of doing a repair installation of windows from dos, because as far as i can remember it is only possible to repair from the cd once in windows.
...

When I try to send a message in Outlook I recieve the following error: "The TCP/IP connection was unexpectedly terminated by your mail server. If this problem persists, contact your LAN Administrator or Internet Provider." I have the exact same...

I am trying to use Cisco's VPN client version 5.0. During any boot process, I get the error, "Validation failer for ....VSINIT.DLL. You probably are missing a necessary root certificate." I cannot find a solution to fixing this problem.

a friend of mine told me that if i don't change my workgroup name from the default (which is WORKGROUP) like most people, i am pretty much opening my doors to hackers.

i immediately change my workgroup name to something else bec of this.
...

In controlpanel -> system -> devicemanager is that tree of devices. Other Devices contains PCI Multimedia Audio Device. It has that(!)mark and properties says that its drivers haven't installed. I tried to update drivers but I couldn't find them....

I do not know how this software borland ( bde administrator version 5.01) was installed on my pc but I would like it to be removed . can you give me the procedure to remove it from my system. I can not find it listed in the add/remove programs...

I'm trying to import the user.dat portion of the registry manually by xcopying it from a backup directory into c:\windows.  It overwrites c:\windows\user.dat fine, but when I check it using regedit, it does not contain the keys that I know are in...

i keep receiving this error installing ikernel.exe when trying to install different products.
example: flash5, adobe4.05, and even updated drivers for the optiquest monitor that i have.
i have ran out of options at this point of what else to...

I have some data in the Temporary Internet Files Folder that I need.  What I am looking for is the information that shows up in the browser listing the web addresses for the objects and date last accessed.  The problem occurred while I was...

The last thing I remember doing was loading a cumulative patch for IE 6, SP 1.  When the download/install was nearly complete, I checked IE 6 and saw that I already had this patch.  I figured I'd let it complete and just overwrite what I had.  
...

Dear Experts..
I need a help from your side. I want to delete some files/ rename some files momentarily (Once a month). For example I need the temporary files deleted once a month automatically. How Can I make a scheduled batch file which will...

How do I install the Certificate Maker program on Win 98?  It worked fine on 3.1, but doesn't work on 98.  It is an old Springboard program--1986.

Hi, I found this key in my registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{5E6AB780-7743-11CF-A12B-00AA004AE837}\Count

It contains approx. 700 fields all similar as the two below:
...

Could someone please help!

I have a Japanese laptop running windows98 (se) (Japanese version).
After installing and then removing a network card. I restarted the computer.

Now when I turn on the computer it stops loading and says:
...

Hi,

a friend of mine adked me to reinstall his packard bell because the system was behaving very oddly. He gave me three master CD's and a Recovery Disk (floppy).

When booting with this floppy, he gives a message something like 'Packard...

After reinstalling Win 98 second edition  said missing netbios.vxd file? what does that mean? I searched on the Win 98 cd and it was not there:(  Any ideas?

All of a sudden I notice there is a Removable Drive named H on my puter. I have A,C,D,E,F, and G drives.A = floppy.F = Zip and G = CD Rom. Why would the puter make up a drive on it's own ? Thanks.

Perhaps I was a little premature closing the last question ?  Started PC this morning and up came the error message,  ERROR STARTING PROGRAM...' THE PICASAMEDIADETECTOR. EXE file is linked to missing export KERNEL 32 DLL: Move File With Progress...

Is there a better app for defragging the hard drives besides the one that comes with Windows98?  

hi,
what is the cause of "crc check failed" and how can it be fixed??
i get this error also under winXP

also, i have a software which contains dll files in one of its installation folders. these files were missing for some reason (maybe lost...

Hi, over the last couple of weeks on startup I get a message telling me bad sectors have been detected on my hard disc.  A graphic is shown with I assume the bad sector marked,  can I do anything about this ? Another thing perplexing me is, after...

Whenever I do floppy disk compression and it progresses past “resizing compressed volume file” and says “100% complete”, the message just sits there forever. CTRL-ALT-DEL has no effect. The only way out is a forced shut down via the PC start...

Is there a way to keep my desktop icons and shortcuts from constantly being re-arranged? I want them to stay where I put them.
Thank you.

Two cab files on my Widows 98 SE CD have become corrupted. Does anyone know where I can find them to download? I have looked into everything I can think of. What I need in WIN98_45.cab and WIN98_46.cab.

What does "Windows sockets initialization failed: mean? and what do I do about it.  I can't get into control panel now.

I have a small network in my home. 3  machines.   This machine can see the others via PCanywhere(NetBOIS).  The othere 2 machines can see this machine and each other in network neighborhood.   The problem is this machine cannot see the others in...

Okay over a month ago my main computer crashed... it will not boot up. seems like somehow most of the system files ended up inside c: drive

i tried fixing myself replacing drivers and folders... no success...belatedly realised that it might...