Can anyone help? I stupidly agreed to help a friend by
installing a new hard drive after his old PC crashed. I
took out the old disk and fitted an Excelstor 40GB disk
with a new eide cable. Tried to boot from floppy: zilch.

Just to get my two cents in here: 98SE:
             System.dat = 8,337 KB
             User.dat = 1,541 KB
I am approaching 10,000 KB --- This is big, fat and sassy, I guess.  How does

When does the copyright expire on Windows 98se?
I was wonder when the copyright  on  windows 98 se oem software expire
and becomes public domain? I am just curious

I have a functioning 6 year old Compac Presario 2240 with
Windows 95.  I need to upgrade to Windows 98 to download
and run a program.  The old computer does not have the
capacity to run more than W 98 according to Microsoft

I'm getting ready to try to work on a persons computer and
haven't come across this problem before.
Their computer won't boot because they accidently tried to
install a program to the wrong drive. Anyone know how I

I'm trying to install microsoft active sync 3.7.1 which I
downloaded from microsofts website.  I'm running windows
98se and just as the install begins I get this error:
_INS5576 caused an invalid page fault in

My PC is running very sluggish with more than one program
open, i.e. it always seems to accessing the hard drive so
I'm wondering if there's something in my config.sys file
that is making the memory inaccessible. My PC (Dell) has

I was able to upgrade from win95 to win98 using my OEM
version CD; however, now when I start up my computer it
says that I am missing the following files:
ndiswan.vxd

My dad has connected a router in-between our computers, so
we can share a modem.  He has Windows XP and I'm using
Windows 98 SE.  How do I know if he has enabled file
sharing?  I can't read his files from my computer but I'm

My Windows 98 SE was was fine but now it always start
on "Safe Mode". The last meaningful activity before this
puzzling phenomena was I was installing the software for
Audigy 2NX Sound Blaster. Could this have caused it ?

My PC starts to reboot and then quits. I then boot to a
system disk, go to DOS, and delete the wininit.ini file
and then the PC will reboot ok. Can anyone help me with
this problem.

Everything WAS working fine-now I'm getting error messages
and have to close Explorer due to wininet.dll failure.
What's this all about? Bad memory board? PMS? What?

On W98 how do you start a service manually? The service
Cisco Systmes,Inc. VPN Service (as shown on a NT
Workstation) needs to be restarted, a reboot does not do
it. If the service is called something different on W98

Win 98SE, fully updated and fully patched.
Downloaded upgrade to MusicMatch jukebox software. Running this causes
program to 'crash' giving an error "Invalid page fault in COREDLL.DLL".
Uninstall, and re-install of software makes no difference. SFC finds no

My Win 98 system was running fine but now I have an error message that says  " No CD plater attached to this computer, CD player cannot start"  Has anybody had this problem or know of a solution.Any advice gratefuilly accepted.  Cheers Steve