Can anyone help me out here?  My computer won't start.  I
boot it up and it gives me the C:\  I type in dir and get
a bunch of directories.  After those is a list of 4.  One
is called win386 and the number next to it is

[this is edited version of post in thread in non-MS Company's newsgroups.
Posted in XP group cuz it's busy :-) ]
Quick background:
Computer is Win Me, FAT32 one HD, no partitions.

I'm currently running XP.  I have an old floppy with
records stored under Windows 98.  Where can I go on the
MS site to get this open and or convert/up date it to
open under XP.

when im using my comp.i keep getting a message"prepare for
standby mode"my screen goes off then comes on when i move
mouse.how do you disable that?when i play music it messes
up the song because it keeps goin in standby

My PC works fine on every level that I can think of except it won't play DVD
movies.  I've tried both Intervideo WinDVD 6 and Cyberlink PowerDVD 5 with
no joy.  The computer has been able to play movies in the past but there
seems to be something missing now.  PowerDVD wouldn't even ...

I intend to network a Windows XP notebook & a W98 SE
desktop.  It appears that a virus has damaged my W98 SE
OS & files beyond repair (fortunately I have a tape
backup). Should I reformat the hard drive & re-install

don't know where else to go, need help, Knowledge Base has
no info. got fatal exception error 0E in 0028:C000247A in
VXD VMM(01) + 0000147A  when I did the press any key the
screen went black then did a cad and another blue screen

Can anyone tell me how to prevent the system time from
being changed?  I run a timeclock software program on my
office computer for employee time keeping and want to
prevent anyonm from tampering with the program's ability to

We had a GEO disk on our Desktop. It was sent to us about
a year ago through the discussion groups. We had had
troubles defragmenting. The GEO disk solved the problem.
Our computer had to be repaired last week. The Geo disk

I'm not sure I'm in the correct forum, but here's the problem, which seems to
be registry-related.
I have a problem with a computer I just picked up at the dump (and now I know
why it was there!). It's a P-II running just under 1Ghz with 300-some MB of

Several mornings a week, about 15 minutes after my wife
cranks up her Win98SE-P4 Internet-Connection Sharing host
and dials into our ISP, and well after I connect thru my
ICS client, her machine will either freeze with the bluse

ANybody come across this before? ALl my
minimise/maximise/close buttons have squashed up aswell
as all the items by the clock (and the clock).
The standard icons on the desktop/quick launch and open

Go into Control Panel - Settings Time - Time - Time style-
then alter time to suit eg hour/min/sec etc

Windows 98 shutdown after installing McAffee Virus scan.
It kept rebooting many times, but windows would not load.
I've tried my to start Windows 98 from my backup disk, but
it always starts in DOS & I don't know the DOS commands.

I have Windows 98SE and my system clock displays in
military time.  I have gone into control panel settings
and changed it many times, but it changes back to military
time on reboot.  Any ideas how to fix this???