I have a customer that has the winroute program installed
on her machine, she uses this machine to assign IP
addressed to her other clients in her office much like a
DHCP server, this in turns forwards requests from the

Have cable modem.  Normally used for internet, and one email account.
Another ISP, have to connect via telco modem, then collect my email from
that ISP mail account.  Use USR 5686E (V.92) external modem via com 1 for
that account connection.

When I first turn my computer on I get this message.
C:\PROGRA"1\MCAFEE\MCAFEE"2\SAFE&S"1\FBWIN95.VXD
Press any key to continue.
I can finally get on but this happens everytime.

I copied some excel files to a windows server 2003 from a
windows 98 machine.  When the users acces the files they
come up as read only.  I checked the security and opened
it up.  That did not work.

I had a look at this page here:
http://cwdixon.com/support/win98_support/disk_defrag.htm
and, I gotta admit, it makes sense. According to the above page, the Win98SE
defragger optimizes files so as to place them in the order accessed when an

Windows 98Se broke on one of my PCs.  Could be a virus or
whatever but confident HD is ok (ScanDisk passes). I
uninstalled 98SE expecting to reinstall.  The first hurdle
is that the Boot diskette thinks there is still an

Thanks for the reply. Here is what I found so far. Startup
was set at "selective". System.ini and startup group were
checked. All others could neither be checked or unchecked,
i.e. they are a faint green color. When I hit the

My IBM desktop has been freezing.  Then, when I try to
restart it, nothing happens.  The tower is silent, the
screen is black.  If I let it set for a couple of hours,
most of the time it will restart.  If I try to restart it

When I first turn on my computer I get the message: Cannot
find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a
window application. The windows registry or system INI
file refers to this device file, but the device file no

Does anyone have any information on a fix for a bug in Windows 98SE with
regards to the way Windows Explorer handles the collapsing of folders in
tree view?
I just discovered that if you set up Explorer so that the File list on the

I am getting a Fatal Exception Error 0028:co2a27a8 in VXD VWIN32(05) + 000012DO at Shut down.  It only happens when I browse with IExplore6 (my primary browser is CompuServe).  I'm stuck on this one.  It all started when I upgraded to IExplorer 6.  I am running Windows 98SE and ...

My Win98SE system no longer autoplays audio
CDs. It will autostart data CDs with autofun.inf
files just fine, but no audio CDs autoplay.
I have been into View>Folder Options>filetypes

When downloading Norton AntiVirus 2004, I mistakenly hit
Open rather than Save. I now have eight Norton icons on my
desktop. How can I reduce these to one or two icons
without losing any Norton files?

Hello; I am getting an error message on boot up that looks
like this:  
"MPREXE caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff7a4b2.

I get alot of kernal32 errors and have to shut down my system.   How do I fix this?