How can I restore the Standby facility to the power options? I removed it at the
prompting of a message on W98 and would like to restore it.
With kind regards,
Basil Grose

Following the recent installation of Broadband on my home
PC, I am having problems with shutdown. When I exit, the
PC looks like its shutting down but just "hangs there".
When I try turning off the power, it re-boots itself so I

When i click on a hypertext in my e-mail from a friend -- it wont open Explorer -- it gives this message -cant find FASTBROWSER.EXE  -- i had fastbrowser installed -- but uninstalled it because explorer is much better and EZer
I did check and Explorer is my default browser.... so ...

We just picked-up a hard drive this afternoon and it
starts to set up we get the windows 98 screen then it
shuts down.  When we try to set up in safe mode we get
error gdl.exe.  And when we try to set up in safe mode

I installed and uninstalled the ez trust armour antivirus and firewall. Upon unistalling now on boot up I get this message that there may be a problem with windows program. The deive file can no longer be found in the window system.inf . the file is refering to vsdata95.vxd. ...

I have been unable to open or manipulate in any way,
certain types of downloaded programs/files, etc. Mostly
the problem presents, when I attempt to download any type
of driver, not exclusive to MS or Windows, any driver;

windows '98. Get this message a few times while on
computer. "A fatal exception OE has occured at 0028:C0059)
2D. Current application will be shut.......etc.,etc. Press
any key....." but then I lose where I was and have to

Thanks to both hugh and brain a for their help..
Long story/question short....I have a curropted IE 5.x program and reinstall is NOT working.
I do not have MS IE listed as a removeable program, and do not have the repair tool available in the system info tools either (msinfo32).
I ...

Is there a program that will allow the block of colour around the text on
desktop items to be removed?

In windows '98 I use to have various icons in my Favorits
files and then one day, without notice, they dissapeared.
It was a great way to distinguish one file from another
quickly while scrolling down in a hurry. CAn anyone help

while in am saving a file in paintbrush or imaging there
is no file type jpg. Please guide how to include file type
jpg

I have had problems with pop-ups and may have deleated
something?  Since I have upgraded to 98 2nd ed. from the
one that came with the computer but I still have the
problem.  When you press the above key combination a

Hi, I posted recently about a boot problem and someone kindly gave me
the URL to a Microsoft page all about this kind of problem.  I'm still
stuck though.
Everything works unless I select the option to load the Windows Drivers

when i attempt to start my computer I get a "failed memory
test" message and a secondary message "trouble
initailizing VPD Device" Any thoughts

Recently, I installed a Spyware Search & Destroy
Software.  After running a scan of all files, I identified
a few items to be removed.  Once these items were removed,
the VFAT error started to occur.  I tried to restore the