all my icon's have changed to read only icons. the
problem started when i hit end task on "rundll" when it
was not running. i shut down pc and restarted. whenever i
click on any of the icons they won't open and when i

As we all know, Windows 95 often freezes or hangs up,
necessitating a restart.  Many times Windows decides it
needs to run Scandisk as part of the restart, which takes
forever and has never, NEVER found a problem.  If I just

I have a laptop running Windows 95.  I use the computer a lot and it
has been working fine for many years.  Yesterday I went to turn it on
and the computer got stayed on the Windows 95 welcome screen.  
The blue animation that moves across the screen, on the bottom of the

i was in excel and i Xed out of the window. the OS tried
to shut the application down but it froze midway so that
there was still a blank excel window. i couldn't minimize
or close it from any other avenue. i then cont. alt.

I've read alot of articles on upgrading from 95, to 98.
Obviously, 95 has it's limitations when it comes to
installing new applications, especially, DSL, which is what
I want to do. My question is, can you install Windows 98,

I have just purchased a tablet PC which is running Windows
XP Tablet edition.  I also have a Windows 95 desktop and
have just installed a Ethernet card onto it.  
At this stage the Desktop is connected to a printer and an

I installed AOL 4.0 on a Windows 95 system and the
installation went fine.  I started Aol and that was fine
also.  Now comes my situation.  I can type an address
(www.google.com, www.yahoo.com), etc in the address box

I got an HP that came preloaded with Win95. I'm trying to
upgrade to Win98 (2nd Full).  On setup I get a message
that I need the upgrade version.  I've upgraded other
systems that came preloaded with win using full versions

To Whom this may concern,
My name is Adam. My aunt has a computer thats a little
more than a year old and everytime she goes to do
something on it or turn it on it goes into dos mode and

I hope someone can help.   When I start my Fujitsu laptop (which has Windows
95), all I get is a blank desktop - no icons, no taskbar.     Left clicking
the mouse button brings up a 'Tasks' window from which point I can't do
much.

Periodically, I get firewall alerts that rundll32.exe is
trying to access the internet. Any ideas as to what is
going on and how I can correct this? Thanks!
paul

Is that true that windows 95 is a free software??

I am a Senior on a Low Fixed income. I am looking for
instructions for downloading Internet Explorer. Once this
is found and all the datails, I will need to know how much
memory it takes?

My children's computer is full of 'stuff' they have
accumulated and I'd like to wipe it clean and start again.
I assume I have to format (whatever that is!) the hard
drive C: again and them reload Windows95 but is there

I,d like to find out how I can upgrade from Win 95 to
either Win 98 or XP, I have tried to upgrade to XP but
have found that this application won,t install as the set
up won,t let me upgrade. Can someone please help?