Dear Windowers,
I have a problem with my Win98se. The menu icons in the windows upper right
corner (minimize, resize and close) have changed into strange icons.
Also many programs, like MS office applications (Word, Excel) can not find

When I try and access msconfig or regedit, the box appears and disappears.  
I've read where I should start the computer in the Safe Mode by using the F8
key and running my Virus Checker.  Except that doesn't work either.  Any
other ways to get Safe Mode up?

my computer wants to keep starting in MS-DOS mode, and I can't seem to get it
to go into Safe mode or do a regular startup.  
Please help

I installed a Western Digital 80GB second hard drive in an HP Pavilion 6630
running Win 98SE.  I manually entered it into the Bios as a primary slave
drive (my CD is the secondary primary drive), and the information has
survived numerous reboots.

After restoring Win 98 Ver 1.1 my keyboard has gone crazy. The letters and
numbers are OK but all the signs are wrong.
How do I fix this
Blair

My Windows 98 Troubleshooters are not working, when I select a radio button
then <next>, nothing happens, righthand side of window just goes blank.
Any ideas on how to retore (presumably) missing files - other Help files
seem OK.

Hi all. In my Windows TEMP folder, I have all these folders called
istmp15.dir, where (15) can be any number. Also, folders called pft61A4~TMP,
or pft8384~TMP, or pft82E0!TMP, Just to name a few. My question is, can this
stuff be deleted. I'm trying to clean up my hard drive. ...

We have a system that the HD association isn't right on.  If we double click
on it then it comes up and asks what we want to open it with.  However, if we
right click on it and select open then the directory structure is displayed.
Anyone know how to correct this problem?

Recently had to reinstall my system
- Formated my drives
- reinstalled win98se and downloaded all the patchs, updates etc
- No new hardware installed.

Have just received & deleted two fairly authenic looking emails supposedly
from Microsoft but actually emails containing trojans/viruses - and detected
by
my anti-virus software (www.Vet.com.au). Both had attachments.

My hyusband says our modem has a fax built in. We also have fax wizard. I
can get there by going to file, to send to, to fax recipient. I can set up
everything and it says it has sent my fax. My printer prints me a copy of my
fax. But then, I get a message from my e-mail that ...

I have recently had an almighty crash on my desk computer (Windows 98se) I
have lost most of my drivers but managed to reload some. I can't access the
internet or use sound, niether can I load any programs, so my MGI photosuite
files are now listed as Paint files and Word docs ...

Using Windows 98 SE.
I am trying to clean-up my start-up menu and I would like to remove one file
that I don't use.  It shows up after Alt.,Cont., Delete as Loadqm.  I read
and tried to apply M.S. K.B. 309418, but I don't have the files mentioned or

An error has occured in your program. To keep working any way, click ignore
and save your work in a new file. To quit this program click close. You will
loose information you entered since your last changes

I have finally removed my old CD drive, and left the (newer) DVD/CD drive in
as the complete replacement (since there is no point in having the old CD
one too).
Except that - now I can't access the newer DVD/CD drive in DOS.