I'm trying to use my webcam. I've installed it, but I keep
getting a message that says "Windows was unable to locate
a driver for this device". Can anyone tell me what I need
to do to be able to use my cam?  

While rebooting, I receive the following message:
Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a Windows
application.
The windows registry or SYSTEM.INI file refers to this device file, but the

I vaguely remember many years ago having this error message when booting up
windows98 on another computer and have forgotten the fix. It occured after
doing some updates on an old non-internet connected system I was asked to fix.
"Windows Help" ...not enough memory available for ...

folder:   C:\WINDOWS\
How can I force it to goto a folder of my choosing ???
Much thanks!
Byrg B.

Hi!
In accordance with instruction from the great guru, Gary
Terhune, I've been trying to wet up a clean boot
environment so I can properly defrag - but have

I have posted this to several Win98 newsgroups, because I am not sure which
one is the most appropriate.
I have an older computer on which Win98 is running.  This system basically
crashed after an attempt to re-install a printer that was giving me a

I have a 98SE box that now goes into 'not responding' everytime I enter
Start|Settings|Printers (while trying to detect the installed printer(s)).
I did a scan disk just before this happened and it found several lost
clusters...

If i dont change anything, and I use the same working win98 directly, etc etc
etc
why if I unplug a card, or change its socket, or something, why does win98
start-up, but before any desktop, searches and tries to re-inst. everything

I have a problem the cause of which could be a corrupted or infected
MBR, but virus scans with Norton AV and Trend online don't find a
virus. I've been advised and come to the conclusion that my only
chance to fix it was to run fdisk/mbr. I'm using Win98.

I'd like to reformat an empty hard drive into two partitions.
Can someone give me some advice on that - or a URL to go to or.......?
I'd also like to copy one hard drive on one PC to a hard drive on another PC
but I forgot how.

First when I open help in start menu and click on a
troubleshooter I can t start the troubleshooter how do I
fix this.Also when I click on search in help nothing shows
on any pane.

I have a computer not connected to the internet running windows 98. It is
mainly used for running an inventory system of scouting kit, and for related
tasks (paperwork etc). I recently installed softare including winzip. After
installation i restarted the computer, and, after ...

When i start my computer it comes up with "cannot find
win.com, unable to complete loading windows."  I have both
boot disk and windows 98 on cd and access to win.com on a
computer running windows XP.  Could anyone advise me on

when i boot up scanregw runs. when i check in the
temporary folder in the windows folder there are two (2)
files created by scanregw. i ran scanregw manually to
confirm that it was creating the two files. i delete the

I had System Mechanic 4 on my computer.  I decided I
didn't want it and uninstalled it. I removed everything I
could. I even edited the Registry and removed any
reference to System Mechanic.