I can not get the hourglass to go away.  It seems
something is always running in the background.  I've tried
shutting down all running programs using CTRL-ALT-Del.  I
shut everything down but Explorer and the hourglass is

starting this thread over since my last post turned into
something else-
I'm trying to update win98 to win98se on a computer at
work-- all the others on our small network were updated

Hello guys...I have Windows 98 and two days ago of all sudden it won't
let me start in NORMAL mode, I'm able to have it in the SAFETY
MODE...but that's all:( I defragmented the whole drive in SAFE MODE
(it took 2 days to do that, 60GB drive) and I hoped that this will

I originally posted this as a problem with Windows
Explorer but while talking with the person using the
machine, realized he was talking about IE instead.  So
the same question remains - with a little tweakin'

How do you go about copying emails from Outlook Express from one machine to
another using floppy disks?
--
Norman Perry

Can someone help me please?  I seem to have lost my defrag, disk clean,
notepad and drive converter programs from my PC somehow.  I am running
WIN98.  How can I go about copying them from another PC to this one?  I
tried going thru the start menu and sending the icons on each to a ...

I have installed a new graphics card (128 Mb ATI Radeon
9200).  Recently my computer display "locked" in 640x480
and when I try to change the display settings I get the
following error:

How in the devil do you reload the screensavers from
win98se?????

Turn on computer, seems to try to boot up, then displays
invalid  page ...
Tried going into safe mode using f5. It appears to go
into safe mode, still get invalid page message. Can't do

In Windows 98, I've noticed that if I delete an item from the recent
docs list (start : documents : right click on item and select delete),
the item goes away (good), but then the maximum number of files in the
recent docs list is decreased by one (bad).  That is, when I open

Hi, I am trying to load broadband, and the drivers won't
load completely because it keeps saying that a file is
missing. Usually it's a .dll file, and when I have found
one on the windows 98 2ed cd and reboot, it begins to

    When right click a TEXT file in Windows Explorer, the
above error message prompts out.  I've checked that in the
file assoication setting, the "view with quick view" is
selected.  Did anyone encounter the same problem?  Please

Bought some old computers at an auction (P1 with Win98)
to learn how to "fix"/play with older computers.One of the computers
doesn't start up and the video signal doesn't go to monitor so I took
out hard drive and tried on another computer and the hard drive is

Does anyone know how to fix 0028:C002B85D on win 98 SE?

Lately, when using word or excel or palying a game, my
mouse (Kensington ValuMouse 3button) will freeze up.I
haave to Con/Alt/Del or shut down to go back to normal. I
have lots of RAm and have cleaned up the start-up thru