There were several things leading up to this but for brevity I'll start with this.
Was upgrading win98 to win98se and at the point where the system reboots I got a missing file message.  These were all related to riptide sound/modem combo card so went to internet on another ...

First, sorry for any lack of details. I'm posting this as
a stop-gap to help (hopefully) my father, so he doesn't
have to pay a tech.
All he can get out of his mouse is right-click to open

where would i find a fix for error 0028;coza278 in vxd
vwin 32(05) 000012700

someone deleted a file and now, when rebooting, a message
comes up "cannot find device file needed to run windows or
a windows application ... system INI refers to this file
but it is not there -- then it goes to  vsdata95.vxd  

Message:  Pls help if you can, How can I upgrade from
Windows98 to Windows 98SE-second edition?  I heard
Microsoft was giving away second edition updates, but I
don't know where to find the update.  I currently have

I am using 98 SE and when I try to send an attachment
through Incredimail I get (Socket Error 317) after about
22% sent. what do I do to fix this??????Thanks

I've got a Win98 machine that went on Standby one night and hasn't
come off.  Nothing will make it wake up.  It doesn't respond to the
keyboard (ie, Ctrl + Alt + Del).  I kill the power and unplug it, plug
it back in, and still it will not boot.  It simply appears to be on

salut;
    I just started getting this error warning. It began
when I tried to access a DAP.exe file/prog. Can someone
help a newbie sort this out?

I'm getting a General Protection Fault in module
LXAXPR.DRV, anytime I try to use Windows Word, Publisher,
Excel, Notepad, Lotto Pro etc. here is the actual error:
EXCEL caused a general protection fault

I have a user using Win98 SE and the time clock keeps
losing time.  It's the classic "losing several minutes
during the day when the machine is kept on all day but
rebooting resets to the correct time."  It isn't the CMOS

   I am using Win 98SE and was shocked to learn on the
weekend, that my Add/Remove Program list (via the Comtrol
Panel), was totally empty except for one application.  I
discovered this when trying to remove some older

Since Win 98SE's original installation, I've religiously
kept up with the updates and upgrades to it and the MS
Office 2000 suite. I've always saved, not just applied
(without first saving) the downloads. I still have them

I have done the debug thing to find out my driver type
and it shows that I have an
ATI Mach64
SGRAM BIOS 4.131

We had to uninstall Windows 98SE from our old Compaq
computer that we are planning on scrapping so that we
could install it on our new-er Dell OptiPlex, but, come to
find out, my sister (who we got the Compaq from) lost the

I recently bought a used Compaq laptop from Ebay which was
said to have no OS.  I purchased a new Win 98 os (which
someone recommended) to install.  The laptop came with
part of WIN ME installed (i guess so I could get drivers