My mother got a new computer for Christmas, and I'll be setting it up for
her. I'm sure there is stuff on old machine that she would like to be on the
new one.
The old machine does not even have a cd burner. It does have a USB port, and

I just installed a Intel 865perl mother board, New Intel processor, PSU
and a sata hard drive (Seagate SATA 300GB), I reused a 30 GB pata hard
drive.
Now the problems:

My CD drive is not working, and a reinstall is desirable, as my current install is
about 5 years old.
1. Recommendation of webpages, MS and otherwise, on install from cab files on hard
drive.

I know how to form a URL to a NG as a hyperlink in an email e.g.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
but, is it possible to do that AND take someone, (who clicks on that
hyperlink and who is not, in OE, cuurently subscribed to that NG but, who

I tried to install windows xp onto a 98 machine and provoked it to do so by
running the winnt.ext file from the i386 directory rather than go through
the usual set-up procedures.
What happened was that win 98 now doesn't load up at all with the computer

PCR, this ng moves so fast, I thought I better post this new to update you on what
I found out about my HP CDWriter drive that quit, as you wanted to know the outcome.
It turns out my HP Cdwriter is bad, surprise due to HP brand, but the tech
said mine was after HP went to China, ...

I am reposting the problems I am having, just in case it was getting missed in other post.  Please also see "TO glee, FROM daddyzaring's POST!" post to see previous progress.
I am using, a HP Pavilion 6573Z, P3, 500mhz, 256mb RAM, total of 80G HDs
capacity, with Windows 98SE,
The ...

With some spare time in the offing, I opened
XT Gold, logged every file on my computer
and sorted in descending order of size.
This fellow was evident at 300Mb  and unknown to moi.

I probably should'nt ask this question in this forum, but I could not
find the proper forum/discussion to ask this and I really need to
figure this out very urgent.
I want to use a .reg file to make changes in the registry. I am trying

My monitor stopped dispay anything with one computer.  It now works fine with
another second computer I purchased.  I had to install video drivers to make
it work with the new computer.
It does appear that the old computer is "working," based on the sounds I

I have a bizarre issue. When I install any drivers for USB 2.0 flash disk
(irrespective of the brand) on my old Windows 98 notebook that is an
executable file rather than an INF file, the installation wizard starts for
an already installed active control loads instead of the ...

The day before yesterday, Win98SE began doing its restarts
at an initially very slow pace.  On my 2000 Compaq Presario
7AP190, the red "Compaq" now appears on the screen for about
half a minute instead of a few seconds, and from then on

Does anyone know a way to clean the power supply fan?  Mine is not
consistently coming on when I boot.   I can make it come on, by shooting it
with canned air, and once it is on, it stays on.  I have tried cleaning by
shooting with air, and also oiled it after cleaning.  Any help ...

I'd like to buy a Kingston 512 MB USB Flash Memory Stick. In its
features, it says it is for USB 2.0. I have an older computer and it
has USB 1.1. Does that memory stick work on my computer, though slower?

Strange thing happened today after turning on my Win 98 SE computer.
The computer turns on, the bios test runs, the windows 98 splash
screen shows up and then after the message "Windows 98 is starting"
the screen goes blank.  I could still hear the computer running and