I noticed that the Norton's antivirus from my Norton's
Systemworks 2003 had been disabled.I tried to enable it
but to no success. I tried to uninstall it but it wouldn't
respond. I then decided to reformat my hard drive.

Ok, since I thought I was going to have to backup my HD I
figured I would use the CD-RW for the backups, but it
wouldn't recognize it so I could use it. I know at some
point I really need to do backups. Any clues why its not

Ctrl+Alt+Del, Nc, end task; could finally
open 'FreeCell'.  OK, what's "Nc"?  Any help, greatly
appreciated.

I sucessfully installed XP and now have a dual boot system.
Thanks to the people here that gave me very solid advise.
I have already posted in the XP NG on some problems.
But the differance in the two NGs are very noticable.

Who has the link for the Windows update V4 engine?  This is another nightmare

It's way to quiet here.
Can anyone (especially an MVP) suggest a good memory manager for W98?
;-o
Curt

i use Win98, and i don't know the screen saver password.
what happen was that screen saver popup before anything
started and don't hv any chance to disable the screen
saver.

I am a nuff nuff burger, wot!!!!!!!!

Hi--I'm beginning to have serious problems with my pc.  My computer went
into a surface scan that took about 30 hours.  I'm getting all sort of
illegal operations messages and page fault messages.  It won't shut down
properly.  One message said the operating system couldn't be ...

When I attempt a restart, I get an error message:  Reg:
"This program has performed an illegal operation..."  "REG
caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL.DLL at
017f:bff773b7"

Running win98 se on gateway machine. When shutting down,
used to get the "windows is shutting down" splash screen.
Now its gone and all I get is a black screen, then after
several seconds the computer shuts off. Ran NAV, Adaware,

when I try to open anything in the control panel, I
recieve the message...access to the specified device,
path, or file is denied..I checked the knowledge base and
it said I need to contact my network administrator for

This may be a hardware problem, but this NG still seems to me to be the most reasonable place to
post.  If I'm in the wrong place, maybe someone can offer a suggestion or a more appropriate
newsgroup.
The hardware:  A Microsoft Internet Keyboard with 7 programmable keys above the ...

When I load windows I get error message above. I have not
noticed any problems in my system until today when I tried
to load a new program and now programs will not load.  Is
this problems connected to the missing file and how can I

I Just reinstalled Win98se and now my quick launch barwill
not keep my Q/L buttons in the order I put them after
reboot. And it also hides all but 4 of the buttons after
each reboot. Does anyone know how to lock the view of the