I was wondering how old does a pc need to be before it should be dumpe
and a new one bought? Mine is running fine(It's just 3 years old). I'
not interested in replacing the hard drive when the time comes or eve
for size purposes. But I do feel under pressure to buy a new pc as har

When I change the connection settings on the internet options menu, they
revert to old (default?) values when I reboot. Is there some way to make the
parameters I set  stay that way?. I seem to recall a button that does this
but I cant find it.

I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time.
When booting  the following shows up
(after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs)
any advice would be greatly appreciated

Any advice on the best way to transfer large volumes of data from an old
Win98 PC to separate new hardware running XP Home?
Neither have a network card and don't I really want to take either apart. I
realise that reduces the options but I am thinking whether there are any

I am running win 98/2nd edition. It seems to me I used to be able to right
click on my desktop or in a folder and have an option to create a new folder.
Now it's gone! I can't create any new folders. What have I done? How can I
undo it? I searched, but I only found one related ...

Windows 98SE. Have a 40gb hard drive with 2 partitions each of 20 gb.
Formatted C: for a new installation and then deleted the D: partition
assuming they would then merge back to one again.  Having formatted C: and
reinstalled windows, there is only one 20gb drive. Where has the ...

I had a bad mother board in one computer so I changed hard drives and video
cards to another computer with a good mother board and now I get the erro. I
downloaded a bootdisk from bootdisk.com but its not working it says to remove
all media and restart. I can't get the c prompt ...

I am running Windows 98se.  My Girlfriend, bless her soul, created two
password based users, for she and I, and logged in using her username and
password.  She then personalized her desktop by putting a couple folders that
I had there into the recycle bin.

I just recently installed the driver for a usb flash drive (memory key) onto
my win 98SE computer but every time I plug it into my USB port, my computer
goes blue and tells me that there was an error and the computer basically can
only be shut down from there. How can I use my ...

Went to upgrade My current internet explorer5.0 to 6 so that i could use a
linksys
wireless  system. Got update from Windows update. My laptop restarted
during the process and now tells me the c: has no FAT. When I scandisk and

When Defragmenting my hard drive it never goes past 2%. After reaching 2%, it
loops back to 0. Disk Scan also fails.
Disk Scan says that it has been interrupted ten times by a progarm writing
to the disk. I don't think I have anything running since I closed all the

I originally had a 4.00gb HD as my main C:\ drive (with call of my
system files on it)....the drive was also partitioned to create 3
drives...Drives C:\, E:\, F:\.  Over time it has out grown the small
size and I decided to install a new drive. I also have a 2ndary drive

A customer has had a mailbox.pst file somehow deleted on her FAT32 disc
drive. The customer did not delete the file and it did not pass through the
recycle bin... The system has antivirus on and is up to date, so I am at a
loss to understand how this has happened.

I need to rescue some files from a hard drive that has windows 98, Can I
plug in this hard drive into my computer that has win Xp and copy those files?

google says: Max. IDE-Harddisk is 137 GB
is there someone, who knows how big an SCSI Disk
under Win98 could be?
sorry, but my english is not perfect.