thanks to Capril I sorted out other boot up problems.
Now when booting up as I get the main screen displayed  and just before
showing all idesktop icons I get a dialogue box saying msnp32.dll dynamic
link library not found. How can I get rid of this. I do not have a W98 CD.

My Win98 PC which I recently did a complete restore of my system (from a
clean start) opens a window with Windows but immediately a window appears
headed Explorer saying the programme has performed an illegal operation and
will be shut down. So I can not get opening the system at ...

;-/
I've noted this in a couple of msKB articles now since the
style-change.
For examples see:

I just installed a new Canon Bubblejet printer (USB installation) which
seems to be working asbsolutely normally, as far as I can tell. However, I
just checked device manager and there is no printer listed. Additionally, in
the Canon box for preferences and maintenance, the printer ...

I installed a copy of Microsoft Frontpage on my Windows 98 Pc 2 years ago. I
have now got a new computer running windows 98 second edition. I lost the cd
key for frontpage. I still have the original disk. Is the ary way of finding
out the 25 character CD KEY from my old computer. ...

I have a mascine running Win2k that is plenty fast. But I would like
to have a second screen displaying for example datasheets and other
info as I work on the "fast" mascine
Enter my old portable that is too slow to be used for real work

What is the difference in terms of an 'Application' and an 'OS'?

I've recently replaced my hard drive and reloaded Windows and all of my
drivers. My new video driver has some issues which I can't seem to figure out
(I have the nVidia Riva 128 and have downloaded the appropriate driver from
their website since for some reason my old one ...

A couple of weeks ago I tried to make the periodic backup image of my
primary drive C using Drive Image 5, But DI-5 locked up with a message
saying the it couldn't write to the mbr because it was protected, the first
time that had happened.   I ran the utility IVINIT and fixed that ...

Ok I have dial-up with a 56k modem and I can connect to the internet through
my ISP with no problems, and I can turn on say yahoo messenger and go to in
box then BOOM it kicks me off the internet. Sometimes it kicks me off every
30 to45 seconds and sometimes it won't for 3 or 4 ...

I noticed that System tray is missing when I apply Ctrl.Alt.Del.
I always understood that Explorer and system tray should never be deleted
Any suggestions?
Blair

Suddenly, when I double click on a JPEG file the following message appears:
"Access to specified device, path or file is denied."
Please advise on how to return to normal operation. This worked fine until
yesterday!

Please help. I have a laptop that is running Windows 98. I am getting an
error that says something about Microsoft Visual Basic. It occurs with
several programs so I'm not sure if it's a Windows problem or if it's with
another program. Is there anything that anyone can suggest ...

I am having serious problems with networking my laptop and desktop with a
direct serial connection. The file sharing software is malfunctioning and I
have spent many hours trying to rectify the situation that it now would
probably be best just to back up the data, reformat the ...

Hi, i have recently noticed that i do not have floppy drive in My Computer.
Instead there is Removable Disk (A:). my floppies do not work. i do not know
what caused the problem. I have used the floppy drive before.  I have also
checked the connections and also in the device ...