I have an old Win98 operating system on one of my computers.  It recently
started giving an error stating it cannot find WINAPI32.dll.  I did a
scandisk and found a couple of bad sectors on my hard drive - probably where
this file resided.  But I'm not familiar with this file and ...

Hi to all,
Wishing to make a back up of my system using Drive image 2002 9x - v-1.0.0.1.   Have tried with the CD method, but didn't work.  As I have about 13 Gb's of 20 Gb C drive free (5.47 used space)  I'd like to create a partition to put the data so as to burn this to CD's.

1-my pentium 2 hangs up frequently.
2-when I leave computer unattended say for 1 hour,it stops responding.
please help.

A friend of mine has an IBM ThinkPad w/ Windows 98SE (or so it had  W-98SE),
he tried to play tech and now it doesn't boot up.  He thinks he needs to
re-install his boot disk?  Well, his CDRom drive isn't working either.  Any
suggestions?

... that will:-
error check all my drives,
defragment them,
search out duplicate files,

I would like to know how to get rid of websites that "Search and Destroy"
found and put in my Restricted sites in the Internet Properties. There are
app. 1998 of them found. I do not want them on my computer. I never plan on
going to any of them. I never went to them to begin with. ...

My kids turned off the computer we have. ....using the hard shut down. now
when i turned it back on it keeps loading in dos mode and i cannot get
windows to come on....help!!

Have been away from home for extended periods and in on weekends for a only a
few hours at a time. On one of my weekend "visits" (mid to late Aug. '04), I
had several Critical Updates available, which I downloaded successfully.
About a month or so ago, I was home again and doing ...

Pls advise what can be done to fix: example: ms works open, try copy - paste  
info, try to paste into another document, and error message "out of memory".
Running W 98se on an older IBM Aptiva, 256 RAM, K-6 processor.
I am about ready to reformat disk and reinstall OS and programs ...

didnt think i'd need to ever post this question, but its gotten out
of hand.
my standard win98 defrag mechanism takes absolutely forever to
happen.

Looking at new Dell 8400 systems. 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM. Both systems run
Pentium 3.2GHZ 540 processor, 800mhzFSB. One system RAM is rated at 400MHZ
and the other at 533MHZ. How significant a difference is this? Thanks, Steve
T.

and there's always a "but"--I cannot connect using IE6.
This is W98Gold.  Had a meltdown, and had to reinstall my ATT dialer.
Wouldn't authorize, so AT tech supp worked me through all the dialer
issues.  No joy.  So uninstalled dialer, DUN etc, and reinstalled DUN

     I just installed one of these onto a friends XP e-machine (PC).
     One LAN lead goes to the above and one LAN lead goes to her older W98
PC
     Now, I had sort of gathered that a hardware firewall is supposed to be

I was runing IE 4.0 and I downlaoded and installed IE 6.0, along with all the
recommended critical updates.  Having done that, I now get the following
message when I start up:
EXPLORER

Over the years I've been in and out of MSCONFIG, and programs
that once were in my startup menu have been deleted from the disk
and no longer exist on my computer.  But they're still listed in
MSCONFIG.