I have Windows 98 and am using McAfee virus protection.  I
have contacted McAfee with my inquiry and was not
satisfied with their "non-answer."
I am trying to decrease the amount of time it takes for my

I am missing the mscdex.exe file in windows 98. My cdrom
needs it to work how do i get it in the system without
the use of the cd.

Can anyone give me advice on how to get my computer to
recognize my CD-ROM's again?  My operating system is
Windows 98.  Any advice would be appreciated.  Please e-
mail me at nathanwayne9@yahoo.com.  Thanks.

Cant get the computer to continue its start-up process
after the "Windows 98" window appears.  I think it is
missiing the necessary drivers.  Any suggestions?

I upgraded my windows 98 from 32 ram to 64 ram, (I know its old, I am a
student and it was given to me).  The computer works fine, except when I go
to shut down it now says on the screen "It is now safe to shut down your
computer", before when you went throught the start menu, ...

I have a Code=15 problem (conflict) on my System Board
extension for PNP bios. When I attempt to use the Hardware
conflict troubleshooter it opens up, asks me to click on
my problem (only one choice to click .... Hardware

I just formated my hard drive and I am trying to upgrade
my color palette so that I can have it set to 16 bit and
right now I only have 16 colors anyone know how I can do
this???  

Sorry if this is a repost.  Am using Google to post and I think I
messed up sending my last post.
Anyway... I went to Eshelman's site and faithfully deleted Enh 386
from system.ini.... still trying to trouble shoot that shutdown

Why can't I seem to remove these and keep them out? They
all keep returning .... DSO Exploit - an
HKEY,User,Microsoft,Internet Explorer ... what is this ..
it comes back? I can't find SearchSquire or anything

 On startup I get a cascading series of DOS windows (15 to 20 ) which then
vanish. When I attempt  to run an app a dos window pops up, vanishes , and
the app will not run. This behavior started after I installed AVG anti virus
software ; but there were similar issues prior (control ...

When I try to start IE 6 nothing at all happens. I have
tried the repair in Add/Remove, SFC, Re-Extract IE,
nothing helps. Also Norton AV which was running fine is
out of commission. My Computer and Control Panel will

I'm running Win98SE, 200 MHz CPU and 64 M RAM.  This problem just
started.  I might add that I run with Windows Explorer on all the time.
For the last 2 nights, when I went to shut down my computer, Windows
Explorer hung everything up.  The first night I got a message that said:

My windows 98 crashed and I have a recovery disk. I
performed the full recovery and it reloaded windows. The
problem is it requests the license key and I don't have
it. Can microsoft provide this?

Ok I don't know what I was thinking but I disabled my port
for my mouse and now I can't use my computer except only
so slightly in safe mode. What I was wondering does anyone
know how I can access the system window in control panel

I have Windows 98, and I have needed to restore the
registry a few times in the past month, and every time I
go to scanreg/restore and get the Microsoft Registry
Checker, there is only one of the five registry backups