Just bought a second-hand Laptop which has Windows 98
installed however when you turn the system on it tries to
boot from disk then returns you to DOS page - what
command do I need to type to boot up??

The clock on my six year old Compaq Presrio (Windows 98) is losing time at
about 2 or 3 minutes/hour.  Is this a hardware or software problem?

can someone help me with my fddrive. my board cannot detect it. may i ask if
there are different types of fdd slots because i noticed that my board has
less no of pins (hope u understand) as compared with other motherboards. or
is it the cable that causes the problem. please help!

I have win98 SE , when i work on excel word & outlook
during work it give this errer message,
Explorer,
This program perform an illegal opration and will be shut

I looked everywhere and I was unable to find an answer.
How do I upgrade from windows 98 to windows 98 SE?

I am unable to open attachments in my e mail - error
message says managed software installer failed to install
the programme associated with this file.  Where do I find
the installer and how do I load it - appreciate any help -

Hi All: Don't know why but all of a sudden when I right
click on any file in windows explorer to get info I get an
error message and it kills my PC. The message is "Failed to
load product info file"

Despite all apparent knowledge and authority that I can
find on the subject, safe mode has been disabled.  
I am working with a PC which was originally setup to login
to a domain, but I don't have other PC's with Server

I've been running a couple of spyware programs that
detected several cookies that were spyware and adware.  
I've noticed that my windows/cookies folder has nearly
3000 cookies in it, of which I am sure many more of them

I have been getting a pop up message supposedly from
Microsoft. It says there are critical updates available
and I can view them now or 24 hours later it would remind
me again. It says it recommends viewing now.I of course

I'm stumped, I hope someone can help.  A few days ago my
screen started growing wider.  I've tryed the front panel
control, reinstalled the graphic and monitor drivers, even
tried restoring the registry( which failed and I can't get

Hi All: I get this error message whenever I right click on
any file in Windows Explorer. The message reads as follows.
Failed To Load Producr Info File.
Does anyone know what this means and if possible a solution

I'm running a five year old Dell desktop with Win 98.
Just yesterday when I attempted to bootup I experienced a
fatal exception error, specified above, and can't seem to
get beyond it. Pressing 'any' key does nothing and

my mouse is acting very erratic i try to move it one way
and it goes another. any clue on how to fix this?

Hello, I'm having 2 problems;
1) The computer just goes blank when I try to restart it
and I always have to reboot it.
2) I always get this message every time that I log off;