Windows 98SE won't shutdown. Gets as far as "Windows is shutting down"
then just sits there. Does anyone know what files are associated with
the shutdown procedure?  Can anyone help?

Whenever I run Defragmentor or Scan Disk, they will
continually restart.  A message appears saying that there
are too many Windows programs running, but there are
none.  Anyone got an idea on this?

Can anyone direct me to where I can get a windows 98
recovery disk?

I've been running Win98 on an HP Pavilion 8370.  The
internal HDD apparently is in the early stages of
beginning to fail, since I've stared getting error
messages to that effect.  Rather than acquiring another

I am trying to reinstall win 98 after formatting c: - I
have a valid boot disk but is not reading it, even
without a disk in A: it still says it... Please help me
if you can. much appreciated..

Running Win 98Se...
D drive (cd-rw) has completely diasppeared....Does not
show in device manager either, and there is an exclamation
mark at "Secondary IDE Controller(dual fifo)".....I've no

I have an 98 IBM Aptiva that I had loaned to a friend.  
When I got the Aptiva back, I found that their child had
deleted many of my programs including Windows98.  I have
called IBM already and they said that they no longer

I am having problems using my CD-rom.  It will not work at
all.  It was working fine until a few days ago.  
When I insert a disc, the light comes on as if the drive
is trying to work, but nothing happens.

I cant seem to find the file iedll.exe on my windows 98 se
disk what do I do

I seem to be having a similar problem to others here.  I
have a new 40 GB drive on an older PC.  I did a BIOS
upgrade and now it does recognize that the hard drive is
40 GB but when I use FDISK I can still only create an 8GB

I am presently running win 98 and would like to know where
I can go to download updates to upgrade to Win 98SE

Can someone recommend the best way to port an existing W98
system to a larger hard drive? In other words, I want to
capture my current OS and applications, install an 80GB
drive, and restore my software. Will Backup/restore do

Hi I need the hidden hot fix! I dont want to pay 35 bucks
for the bug fix. refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base
Article - 272620 Win 98 SE The files needed or the patch
would be so cool.

I can seem to get the primary ide hard disk controler
(dual) fifo to work.  I'm running a 30GB WD HD as primary
master and an atapi zip 100 as the primary slave.  The zip
is recognised by the cmos set up routine but in windows