I just finished writing a long message, and then when I went to post
it, I get a Service Error, and lost the message. So excuse me if this
is rather brief. One gets tired of typing things over and over!
Can anyone direct me to figuring out why Im suddenly experiencing all

Just as a follow-up on my question on how to get rid of the two
duplicate desktop icons I had in W98SE.  Got rid of them this morning.
Opened the icon, right clicked an icon inside, clicked delete.
Nothing happened so right clicked again, clicked delete, this time the

Every time I open my control panel I get the
message "Explorer" This program has caused and Illegal
Operation and will shut down.  When I click ok nothing
shuts down & the control panel opens!  Anyone know why

Wonder if anyone can help me and my daughter.  Her pc
crashed and on restarting windows 98 will only start in
safe mode.  It also doesn't appear to recognise the 'd'
drive.  I'm sure this is old hat to loads of you out

Something has happened to my daughter's laptop.  She can
no longer control desktop themes. She cannot remove a
screensaver to save her life.  The icon is there under
control panel but it won't do anything.  I have done

 I once had microsoft newsgroups going into my
OutlookExpress but I changed computers and I forgot how I
got it there in the first place.  Could you tell me how to
get it back.  Thank you in advance.     Keith

I have a 1.8M IEEE 1394 FIREWIRE 6-4 PIN CABLE NR CA007,
if i install a pc firewire card, will i be able to copy
and play movie from my mini dv camcorder on computer and
then can copy it to CD-RW.

We have some folder and files which we have found on our
hard drive. The folders are sound, unzipped and vid. All
of these folders have several files in them, but we do not
know where they came from. Is this something that is

i have a 3d program called blender3d. it is a share
program that has a large community base where you can
download 3d objects people have made with thier blender
software. ithe 3d objects are downloaded to me as zip

Hi to all!  My mother had her neighbor look at her
computer and he reformatted her c: drive.   She does not
have the disks to reload the machine.   Any advice how I
can get the machine reloaded?  I have operating system

I have upgraded my Toshiba from 98 SE to W2000 Pro, now i
want to remove the password that I have registered in the
TSETUP in the previous version (98 SE), (the password
before startup), but now the TSETUP is not available with

Any idea what a load error on VMCPD could be.  What
device might it apply to.  I read a MS Knowledge Base on
is.  It's not the math processor and the Bootlog.txt
shows all loads as successful.

How do I upgrade Windows98 to Windows98SE, which is the
minimum required for a new application?
seawheat@att.net

i am having problems with my computer freezing (it lasts
about a minute at a time but i happens every 5-7 minutes),
also i have no space on my pc left so i cannot install
anything. there are loads of things on this pc that

About 2 or 3 years ago, I bought this ATI external USB tuner unit for my
win98se system. Naturally, windows crashes from time to time, as I'm sure most
of us know. So then one has to reinstall the software for this unit, and
sometimes it would work and other times, it won't. It ...