I've been using the Internet for 6 months or so and it was
working real good for me, but lately if I bring up a page,
my computer freezes.  I've been told by a friend that I
need to clean up my hard drive.  How do I do this? Please

Suddenly I am having problems with my USB devices. In the
Device Manager in System Properties (Control Panel>System)
I see that the USB controller has, for some strange
reason, disappeared. Does anyone know how I can get it

I've got a hp laserjet 1300 hooked up by usb cable to my
windows 98 computer, but the computer doesn't have a usb
port listed under printer properties.  there is a usb
driver that comes with the hp laserjet 1300 driver, but it

I have been deleting folder on my harddrive that I had
created and also deleteing file and folder in my recycle
bin.  Some files were too big for the recycle drive, so I
just had them deleted.  

I've some excel and word files saved on win2k server. When
I opened them by windows explorer on win98 or winME, the
PCs will hang sometimes(3-5 times per day or twice a
week). Then I need to reboot the PCs. It didn't happen on

At startup, Win98se stops and tells me it is testing XMS
memory (using himen.sys?). After completing, it then
tells me himen.sys is missing and tells me to restart. I
cannot get into windows. My rescue disk is no help.  I am

My home Pc has picked up the Opas worm, not sure how, got thru Norton but it
did, anyway I've run the removal tool from Norton, applied a patch from MS
exactly as instructed, BUT it's still there. On restart I get an error
message saying scrsvr.exe is infected etc...I 'heal' it all ...

Hi. I think this might not be the correct board for this posting. If that's the
case, I'd appreciate your directing me to a more appropriate board/newsgroup.  
I have a consistent problem with my Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 3150
printer/fax/scanner. It is not a flat bed. It is a ...

I have an old IBM computer here with a 4 gig drive that's partitioned
2, 1, and 1 (C, D, and E). It had never had any Windows Updates, and by
the time I got those all done, C drive is almost full. A lot of it is
pictures saved in My Documents. Is it possible to create a My ...

I'm trying to do a favour for a neighbour whose Win98
machine was badly out of date and riddled with bad
apps...
Made a note of all the software; video driver was a

Running Win '98 with IE 6 SP1 (all criticals installed).  
This morning a new error popped up where after boot is
complete and the desktop comes up it gives an error of
explorer.exe crashing with the details denoting a page

The hourglass behind my mouse pointer won't go away, until
I shut down the program "Sysupd" using the End Task
fuction with Ctrl Alt Del window.  What is Sysupd?  And
how can I fix this problem?

How do I use my photographs in a new sceen saver?

I just did a clean install of win98 but computer finished up with error #2
saying
setup could not finish opening a file on the source disk.
Then it went through a rather long list of the files that could not be

Please help! My Windows 98 will not allow me to turn off
the login window, that comes up on the screen, before
windows start. I saw another newsgroup a while back that
looked like it might help, but none of their suggestions