Dear Helpgroup,
I would like my Windows 98 SE Computer to boot faster, or know that it is
doing the best that it can.  I have tried to speed it up, but only have
modest success.  It takes 145 - 150 seconds to boot up.

When I run "regedit", the regedit box appears for about
one second and dissappears. Does the same thing with
msconfig as well. What's the cause of this? Never has
happened before. Thanks!

I have the latest wmp (9?) on my work computer... an older
model XP with the service pack installed and I've discovered
how to store specific tracks in specific files on my
computer.

How to re-associated my jpeg file extension to proper
program as it is currently associated with windows media
player

My pc with W98 will reboot on its own.  Sometimes at first
startup it will reboot continually. It will then reboot
less often and finally stabilize and sometimes remain
stable for several hours.  Sometimes it will start and

when i start win98,then blue screen appears.The error
information is"A fatal exception occur in ob with
04BF:0000158C".and i can not enter safe mode.
how can fix it?

My friend's computer con not start up the computer request
ATI CD with atfchsxx.hlx file. She tells me that her
computer just stop working last week and can't get going
again. I went and looked at it and I can't get it to go

Yesterday I placed by laptop on standby twice - and twice
it would not "wake up" from standby and so I had to power
down and reboot (happens occasionally for me - maybe once
every 2 weeks). On the second reboot, a box popped up

Dear Helpgroup,
I have the strangest question.
I was trying to use Help to Troubleshoot a Shutdown problem.  I was going
just fine and it looked like I was into the troubleshooting the I clicked

My son installed adobe photoshop and configured it to open
all .bmps .gifs.jps etc.
I dont want them to open under adobe so I have some
opening in paint and some under explorer. But before I had

I bought my brother a used eMachines PC for christmas last year. The
floppy drive doesn't work, something wrong with the MB the shop owner
said. A CD writer was cheaper than a new MB so it came home with one
of those. The problem is we can't figure out how to create a start up

What is babylon please?
trh

Does anyone know what Bullguard is?
I found it in my windows explorer. Apparently it was
downloaded at some time. Just dont know what it is.
Thanks

Can anyone tell me the function of the file IconRA.exe which runs at bootup.
I see that it is in both the WINDOWS folder and in an Iomega folder for a
portable flash memory. I have been unable to get any info through a google
search.

for a while now when moving from window to window or
playing the CSI adventure cd rom, my pc has has been
displaying a box saying this program has preformed an
illegal operation and will shut down there are 2 buttons