If I use Dial-Up to access the Web do I need an Ethernet device showing in
my Device Manager ?
It has a yellow question mark beside it .
drew

For some reason, the screen looks blurry.
When the PC starts, the Windows boot picture looks just
fine (so I know it's not the monitor).
This happened after I installed DirectX9, and set the

Hi, i recently re-loaded win 98 and now all i have is 16
or 2 colouurs and a bad display. someone said i need a
driver. can anyone send me this with idiot instructions as
to how to fix my problem?

My Norton Anti-Virus tells me C:\windows\winlogon.exe is
infected with a Trojan Horse and I should delete the file
and replace it.
I have found Symantec's very detailed removal

Hi, I have 20 files that were originally opened up in
Excel.  CPU crashed...many changes later...I have
installed 'MS Works Suite 2001'.  It looks like 'xls'
files, are now 'xml'!?!?!

   I recently installed a new motherboard, MSI 865PE Neo2-FIS2R, which
includes the Intel 82547EI Gigabit LAN built in. The machine has yet to boot
normally with the LAN enabled. I get a black screen stating "Windows
protection error, you must restart you computer". Doing so puts ...

can't bring up windows explorer?

Suddenly, i couldn't open MS Word or Excel.The Error
said "Invalid page Fault in module HLPA.DLL at
0167:61c05319". So, i uninstalled MS office in safe
mode.But, when i tried to install MS Office in Normal mode

Hi...
How can I find files/folders whose names have spaces? Eg, if I search for
'30 Dec', I'll get everything which has '30' or 'Dec' when I only want '30
Dec'.

When I check to see what critical updates are available,
how do I know which ones I need to download? Should I
download all of them? Thanks in advance for any help.  

I would be very grateful if someone could help.
Somehow I have wrecked the boot sequence for my laptop
which runs on Windows 98.  As it attempts to load, I get a
message saying:

When starting up I (my mother) get an error message that
says Windows cannot detect a mouse.  I have already tried
EVERYTHING. I'm fairly well versed in troubleshooting but
my mom is on the opposite side of the country and is

i cannot get active desktop to ....open hour glass appears forfew seconds
then nothing
Anyone help me ?
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I am troubleshooting a Win '98 box; when the PC is booted
windows begins to start up (the chimes play, mouse move
etc.) The background then flashes white and I can have no
interaction with the desktop. I can click on buttons on

Last week I tried to install a WD 80G HD I bought on sale in a HP Pavilion
4450 running W98 (not W98SE).  I never got windows to recognize more than
the first 40G of partitions.
I installed 5 partitions using all 80G using the WD installation software.