Up until today, one of my systems had been working fine. I have a feeling
that the harddrive that is the main problem; however, Win98 Gold has
also gotten somewhat hosed.
Specifically, upon bootup, sometimes the drive will be found and will

I know this is not the right place, but where can I go if the 98 Power
Management section is perpetual out of service.
My question is I need to press the buttom for abt 10 sec before the power is
off, where can I adjust it to shut down quicker. I cannot find in the BIO'S

  I have a d-link router configured with a 3 station workgroup. An XP pro
box and a 98SE box are hardwired. A W2K machine is running wireless.
  I am able to connect to the internet successfully and can see / share
files between all 3 machines.

if the updates on the CD is not available is it possible downloading them so
they can be burned to CD?

I have a large capacity drive...200gb...that I was wondering if there
was a faster way to perform maintenance other than with the
Maintenance Wizard provided with Windows.  It seems like it takes
forever for the program to run its course !!  

I fancy trying out the new microsoft anti spyware programme but as I have
98SE I am not sure if I can. Anybody with this OS tried it ...Bob

I posted about this a few months back, but no-one took the bait, so here
goes again...
I sometimes have need to convert audio files from one format to another
(usually .wav to .mp3), and I use DbPowerAmp (though not the latest

Does the newer version of McAfee Firewall work with Windows 98 SE
and/or Windows XP? I tried it with 98 SE a few years ago and lost
the use of my computer until I got in safe mode and got it uninstalled.
Any info appreciated.

Anybody heard of this file and know what it does??  Harmful?  Helpful?
Would love some advice.

I originally had a 4.00gb HD as my main C:\ drive (with call of my
system files on it)....the drive was also partitioned to create 3
drives...Drives C:\, E:\, F:\.  Over time it has out grown the small
size and I decided to install a new drive. I also have a 2ndary drive

when i boot up computer, after desktop loads, i get a pop
up error:
cmanager
application fatal error unable to connect to ccd process?

Background:
I had McAfee VirusScan-9 installed & was trying to run a normal update. The
update kept failing. Tried to re-install it. But now all my
installation/update attempts fail. So I worked through their troubleshooting

There is a file (index.dat) in the cookie folder.  I don't recall seeing
 it there before (although it could have been) and if I try to delete
it I get this:
Cannot delete index

win98se
Never seen this problem before.
I updated a scanner program/driver and now not only is the scanner is not
being reconized but I can't uninstall and/or install new driver/program.

Forum folk;
I view this ng in OE and over 8000 messages are evidently d/loaded each time
I visit. Can I pare this down to a more reasonable number?
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