i have win 98. while pc is on, it starts giving continous
short beeps , please explain it to me as iam worried ans
not able to find the answer.is there any problem or pc
wants to tell something?

I am unable to start windows98.  The PC starts to load,
Windows98 Logo, gets as far as the wallpaper & "fanfare"
and then freezes.  The toolbars and shortcut icons are not
displayed on the screen.  The keyboard is also frozen (Num

what is this ? and how do I get rid of this? I have
windows 98 SE

I have my original CD for Windows 98 but have misplaced my
product authorization key. I am getting ready to (re) load
Windows on my machine due to several problems I've been
having (The problems are significant and I simply want to

Is there a way to have the view in Explorer always be list view rather than
icon view? I have to change it at each visit.
Jerry in Vegas

How do you edit or get rid of that the index.dat file in
the cookies folder? I've tried everything, safe mode,
using dos from the startup disk, etc. I know Windows will
recreate it anyway, but I want to clear all of the info it

Does anybody know how many troubleshooters are available
on win98 and 2000????
Thanks :)

I cannot install my new flash card reader. A message
says,"1155 File: C\WINDOWS\TEMP\INSTMSIA.EXE cannot be
found".  That file is nowhere on my hard drive.  Tried
installing the driver from a Winzip download and using the

Recently when this machine boots up running WIN 98SE, it
gets gpf's in mstask, mdm, explorer, and rtvscn95.  All of
the gpf's are in kernel32.dll at the same address of
017f:bff76324.  Does this seem like something has become

I keep getting a pop-up box on my computer that says the
following:
The APPB5.TMP file is linked to missing export
SHELL.32.DLL:SHGetFolderPathA

I dont remember asking them for it but microsoft has
sending me updates to windows via email (I checked and they
really are from microsoft.) The attachments are huge and
getting several per week. They're filling up my email box.

When I restart my computer, the screen just stays blue and
throws out an error message that says: Explore causes and
invalid page fault in module shell32 at 017f:7fcb2342.
Need help on what to do.  Thanks

autoexec.bat
SET PATH=%Path%;C:\3dsmax5\backburner2\;"C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\"
That is what it says in my autoexec.bat file...I need it

Sir/madam
i Installed Windows 98. Machine is AT cabinet based. When
i tried to shutdown the machine, iam getting a blank
screen instead of getting "Its now safe to turn off your

How can i tell the difference in win 98 and win98SE on my
computer?
I have installed the WIN 98 disk and the 1999 cdrom called
Windows Update, Win98 Service Pack 1 which includes year