HI I need to defragmen my OLD computer. It's at my moms house. I tried going
through the defragmentation within window BUT it ran forever BUT nothing
happened. I think the defragmentation program is not on the system. IF I put
the startup disk into the computer will I be able to ...

I mistakenly deleted a number of word files from my recycle bin.
How do I retrieve them? I can not find a "system restore" program.
I use windows 98

Hi I was wondering if someone could help me out.
Whenever I delete something from my C: drive (Main Windows drive) the
deleted files ends up in the recycle bin. However whenever I delete files
from my D: drive the deleted file does not end up in the recycle bin. I still

whenever i try to open regedit, it gives following error message "This
program has performed an illegal operation & will be terminated, quit all
proagrams & restart windows.The program tried to execute an invalid
instruction"

Please give a clue by which I can access the Physical Hard disk ID
regads
Kumanan

every time I start my computer I get a message saying there is a file missing
needed to run window properly.  I located the file locations using the    
find    option.  it will not let me reinstall the file.  what else can I do?  

I have an older laptop running Win 98 SE.  It is totally unusable do to
Spyware problems.  I've tried every method that I've been able to find, but
the system has basically ground to a halt - it's unusable.  I'm planning to
wipe the hard disk and re-install the OS.  I need to make a ...

I don't know why my notebook is extremely slow to open a word file or the
file manager.  I found the problem even when I didn't do anything else.  I
doubt it got virus.  The notebook is a pentium III 500MHz with win98 O.S.
laptop.  It isn't a new

I have a drive that is a compressed drivespace.000 file and I think it was
created under '95 or '97 - can '98 read that file?

everytime i use my (D:) cdrom drive it tells me that it is not ready i have
checked the ribon i have done a add hardware but when i look in device
manager it tells me there is no romdrive but i can put a disk into it and it
will attempt to read then stop and tell me not ready again ...

im a dj an im trying to put an 80 gig hard drive into my wins98 that already
has 2x20 gig hdd,the drive 80 gig has music file already on it but the drive
cames from my other computer that has xp an its in the computer now but
doesn't see the drive please help me

Setup is as follows:
Thinkpad 600e, std internal hdd (C-drive), external hdd via USB caddy
(D-drive). Win98SE
Prob1.

I just fitted a Datafab PCMSM smartmedia pc card adapter, 128mb compatible,
into slot 2. It is has been detected as a plug & play device and has
installed as a "Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller" and it doesn't show
as a drive in Explorer as it is supposed to. According to ...

how to use timer switch to turn on my computer without pushing  the switch
button on my motherboard?thanks.

I have an old computer I am selling. I took one of the 2 hrddrives, the cd,
and 3.5 floppy out for my new computer when I put it together and formated
the harddrive I left in. Now I have put the CD and floppy back in. (I beleive
to the correct cables.)  The comp was giving the ...