Hi
When I turn on my PC it freezes at the Windows 98 screen.  Ive tried to go
into safe mode also but the screen just goes black. I recently moved house so
thought something mite be lose but I checked all the connections and they

How do I turn on Active X

Win98se
Office XP Pro
IO/IE v 6
When I decide to burn any discs, I clear the sytem tray of all active

Trying to achieve sound...which I had prior to formatting H/D and clean
install of Win98SE.
Tried various drivers for the sound card (Opti16 audio).
No sounds either via control panel/Sounds route.

On my Win 98-SE, I can no longer boot into graphical mode, only Command
Prompt and not Safe Mode either. After "Starting Windows 98" appears, I get
error message:
       While initialized device VF Backup, VF Backup could not load

Hi
Does anyone now how to disable the password function in
Windows 98? Ive forgotten the password for my computer
(password nr 1)- so Im completely locked out of the whole

I have the same problem as Crystal. (see copy of email
below) Also, now everything is huge and wider than the
width of the monitor, so it is beyond where I can reach it
with the mouse. I have a 17" monitor.

due to a problem with installing a program I could not delete it and had to
find each piece and get rid of it which I did, but cannot get rid of whats
left from "add/remove programs", how can I do it ?

I downloaded a voice changing program recently and soon
after it told me to reboot, I did so and then and now ever
since then i've been getting a message that pops up
telling me the following.."The following system files have

When I start my windows 98 compaq, a black screen loads
and tells me that windows registry or SYSTEM.ini file is
not there and that it was erased. If i erased it on
purpose then i should delete its other application or

I have Windows 98 first edition.  I want to buy a new
printer that states it only works with Windows 98 second
edition or greater.  A Gateway tech told me that if I have
all the "updates" offered, then I have the equilvalent of

Hello Sir,
Thank you for the solution, but still can there be any other alternative ?
Since I need to use IE/Outlook Express in the day time several times and
that too offline ? so everytime it will go for connection.

When I start my windows 98 compaq, a black screen loads
and tells me that windows registry or SYSTEM.ini file is
not there and that it was erased. If i erased it on
purpose then i should delete its other application or

Win98
Oldr PC..133
Works fine for what my daughter requires for a 2nd pc, but an annoying error
shows up on the dos start screen as follows:

I get this  fatal exception OE has occured at 0028:
(00063A5 in VXD umm(01) + 000053A5   the current
application will be terminated. This happens at shut
down. What is this and how do I fix it? Any help would be