If I use ie and then close ie, my start button fails to
work (does nothing), windows explorer will not initiate,
and I cannot restart ie.
Other programs seem to work just fine.

I have a win98 machine here that doesn't update windows
explorer when you put a new cd in the drive.  Im not sure
if this is normal as i didn't really get into ibm
compatible stuff until about ME.

My system hangs when I try a normal boot.  When I do a step
by step boot, my computer hangs at the msmouse.vxd file.
What do  I do? HELP

How do I retrieve pictures that where in my digital camera
file of images.MGI SUITE.....IMAGES....Any help would be
greatly appriciated...thnx woody

can we buy 98 ?

My daughters Gateway has been set up for several users,
not just one.  When left clicking the 'START' button, the
pop-up menu shows a 'LOGOFF' command but does not show
a 'RUN' command.

The Windows 98 SE Hardware Conflict Troubleshooter, in
Help, does not seem to be working properly.
It says
"What problem are you having" with one option:

windows 98se, pentium III, 1000MHz, 128mb ram, 30gb hd
(25gb free).  right clicking either on the desktop or in
windows explorer, and moving the mouse pointer over "new"
on the shortcut menu results in an IPF error.  It happens

Boot Log Analyser reports my boot time at 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
The last two lines of my bootlog.txt (with time added by Boot Log
Analyser) is as follows:
08:17:53       0.00           EndTerminate = User

After installilng win98, right clicking on the start
button gave no results (nothing happens).  What is the fix?

In a response to someone else, Hugh Candlin directed a poster to
"computerhope". Curiously I followed, and ended up downloading  DriverGuide
Toolkit for which it listed all of my drivers and then appeared to find only
one that required an update (listed in red).

I have a Compaq Presario (Celeron) running Windows 98 SE.  
Periodically, the machine will reboot itself or give a
BSOD with the following error: A fatal exception 0D has
occurred at 0028:C00028EA in VXD VMM(01) + 000018EA.  This

I recently installed directx 9.0b(Win98se) and everyhting
seems pretty much ok except for out of the blue I will get
an error saying that ddhelp.exe has performed an illegal
operation and will shut down. Click ok and things seem

can someone plse help me. i was given a computer that is
running win98se on it and everything is running fine. it
came with two network cards but no modem. i have taking
one of the network cards out and have installed the modem

With direction from the microsoft support site, i copied
my shell32.dll from a non win98 machine to the win98
machine using DOS. upon reboot, nothing happened,
literally. windows didnt start, it just sat there. can you