My stepdaughter's PC wouldn't start yesterday, the
Windows 95 screen appears but then it goes to a DOS
screen and says "himem.sys is missing or corrupted".
How can I fix this, and how can I prevent this from

    I am in search of information regarding the Volume
Serial Number of the HDD.  I wish to change it on one HDD
in one computer to reflect the same serial number in
another computer.  The reason for this is due to a piece

My computer doesn't show up in Network Neighborhood and
I've done everything to try to fix it.  Does anyone know
how to make it show up?

I have W2K, NT4, 98 and 95 clients those are connecting to
a NT4 server domain. Everythink works.
I want to use a new domain with Windows 2000 and Active
Directory.

Does anyone know where I can buy - at sensible prices -
licences for windows 95, windows 98, Ms word 95and MS
word 98?

I'm running a rather old Win 95 system (NEC) with a 100
meg drive.
I have little software on the system, and am constantly
running out of space.  I pare it down to 50-100 megs free,

We are currently operating with PowerPoint 97.  We have
clients who are operating on the 2002 version . . . or even
the '98 version.  When we send presentations back and
forth, things move around, change size, and do all sorts of

So i took the large battery out for two hours and still
did not take care of this password problem. My step
brother told me that i have to find the Jumper... There is
no diagram of how to find this jumper... what would it

I'm trying to install Win95 (cd) on an old  formatted Dell laptop. I'm able to use boot floppy to get to DOS (Win95 cd won't boot), but when I put the Win95 cd in, I haven't been able to access the "setup" file to install. Tried typing D:\win95\setup, D:\setup, looked through ...

How do I update the old MS-DOS in Win 95? Does Microsoft
have a download?  Thanks

I got this problem that just started a couple of days
ago.  My laptop has been working fine until now.  When i
start it up and finally when it boots up to the main
windows 95 screen.  A screen pops up and it says, can't

Thanks everyone for all the replys! Sure is nice to see
helpful people! I removed the cover to the computer.
Having troubles finding the battery u all said to
remove... I dont know much about computers. What does this

I am having this "odd" behaviour in trying to connect to
the Internet. I follow this procedure:
a. I click on my ISP connection and get connected (The
connection icon appears in my system tray.)

My pc is trying to start-up and I get the message:invalid
system disk  replace disk and then press any key
Does this mean to actually replace the hard drive? Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

I have users that must log into Windows 95 machines using Active
Directory user accounts.  This works OK except for the fact that the
95 machines are somehow "forgetting" the name of the AD domain at next
login.  The Domain text box always reverts back to the old NT domain