I recently formatted a computer that was heavily virus infected and more
trouble then it was worth to try and repair it, so I just went to clean
reinstall. The hd is now formatted, but after hours of searching I have only
been able to lay my hands on my win98 boot disk, my win ...

I was having problems with my emachine ETower 500ix, WIN 98.  The screen  
kept getting frozen too many times.  So, I decided to format the hard drive.  
During the process I noticed several error messages as follows "inflating:
c:\Programs.............file name...... Bad CRC <file ...

Good Morning and happy New year to all.
My dad tried to start his PC this morning and received an error stating that
the "Operation system can't be found on any device, press any key".
I have tried to start the pc in Safe mode but do not manage. He told me he

When trying to defragment my computer it stops in the middle of running and
says it cannot continue because there are errors on the drive. It then
prompts me to run Scan Disk. The first time I ran Scan Disk it said it found
errors but fixed them. I ran it a second time and it ...

    during start up the error message could not find file"sservice.exe(or
one of
it's components)comes up.
also another error message under it says could not find WIN.INI file.

Happy New Year everybody!
When I try to make a backup disk, on the report, I am told error program was
busy
or can't compare. I also am having problems with troubleshoot. When I go to

Recently, I started having a problem with the hard disk running for about one
second every minute or so. This causes annoyances such as the mouse freezing
and the sound player to stutter for that one second. Everything was running
smoothly until I got hit with a bunch of pop-ups ...

When I click "Start" > "Run" then type in "regedit" or "regedit.exe" I get
the message "Cannot find the file 'regedit' (or one of its components).  Make
sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are
available."

My dad says it would be a huge risk to format the hard drive and reinstall
windows 98.  He has done this before with the help of a thechnician on the
phone.  That was when the computer was under warranty.
Now, there are many problems that could be solved if I could format the hard ...

The command for creating new folders have gone missing from the "File" menu
in the explorer on My Win 98 SE system. In fact, the command seems to be
missing entirely and the only way for me to create new folders (or any other
new objects such as documents or other filetypes) is ...

High, I was around a friends house the other day, and he has this strange
behaviour of system monitor.
Some software, he showed me freecell, but it does it at other times as well,
seems to make the processor usage on the graph go to 100 percent and stay

Running Windows 98 SE, just fine for ~6 years until...
The Device Manager shows a resource conflict (code 15) for the "System Board
extention for the PnP BIOS". (Driver VMM32.VDX 4-23-1999)
Under the Resource tab, the "Conflicting device list" has no conflicts but

Where can I buy a 98SE upgrade?  I can't see anything at Microsoft.

I have had version 7 in place a few days.
Now I continually get a pop up on the
"AVG email scanner
connecting to 64.4.50.50"

A question for the experts:
I wantto use a dual monitor VGA for editing AND output DVI to my  inch HDTV.
Can Output 1 of the radeon 9550 go to my desktop 19 inch LCD and  output
2connected via a y connector like this one