I recently got a secondhand computer from an office, and i tweaked it to my
liking, so now it runs fine.
One little thing that bugs me is, since I got this junk heap, the "File"
menu has been missing from Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer! I can

I have a computer that has no info according to system
information when clicked, do I need to reinstall
msinfo32.exe? I tried to just copy off another machine I
have with no luck. I have a win 98se upgrade CD, can I use

I was looking at the system information tool and on the right side it
says, "The component which displays this information is not
functioning properly, or is not present on this machine."
It also crashes with the following error messages:

it's has taken my homepage.when i hit default windows
secure comes up.when i go online a pedowarning comes on
stating i'm under servilence........how do i get rid and
reset my home page?

I take digital pics of parts that I sell. I save them in a
subfolder under my docs.  For some reason pics that I have
taken mysteriously disappear.
When I use "search/find" of windows the files are no where

Here's what's happened to the wife's puter as far as I can recreate and have checked/tried so far.
1. At boot up memory test is run and says OK, next loads CD, Zip,etc. then " memory test fail". F1 to continue.
After this it looks like it's starting to load then if it goes to safe ...

I can't access Explorer through My Computer or Windows
Explorer.  I get the "illegal operation" message when I
try.  There's a further message which states that IE is
causing the problem.  I have managed to reinstall IE from

I have set a new wallpaper but the old one still appears
at shut down and startup.  How do I delete this old
wallpaper permanently?

I am fairly new to doing computer work and have been
trying to do a project. I am trying to get a map much like
you see on Weather.com in a Word file or excell file then
be able to put drop down menues or comments on top of the

My time setting is 20 minutes slow. This does not increase
or decrease. When I go into change Time Date, I change the
time to the correct time press okay and it returns to the
time that is 20 minutes slow.

Another non-related win98 question from me.
Is it true that MIRC needs a registration key?
What's going on there?
(Me? I stopped using that six years ago.)

Ok.
Last night, powered up a Win98 machine that has been
inactive for about a year.  Hooked monitor thru a switch
so an XP machine and WIn98 machine should run thru the

I can't download and install these latest two critical updates for IE & OE
on my win98 machine.  I followed all the help directions on the site, except
for re-registering the "regsvr32 msscript.ocx" file. I got an error message
"LoadL ibrary("msscript.ocx") failed. GetLastError ...

I have lost the odbctl32.dll file from my computer and
need to know how to get access to it to reload into my
system.

I want to add another pane on my programs list and I don't
know how to do it.  When you hit 'Start' and then go to
programs, a long list of programs show up in only one
pane.  How do you get a second pane so you can see all the