I have a NEC laptop with Windows 98 installed on it, and recently Ient
it to a friend of mine for a couple of days.  She claims that one day
she started it up, and all it would allow was the 16 color display
option in properties, and it also wouldn't allow her to connect to the

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200512/kt2005121319341211780.htm
"Seung estimated about 10 percent of Korean PC users depend on Windows 98 and merely half of them would substitute the decade-old
system with higher versions like Windows 2000 and XP.
``To protect those who ...

I am using Win98 First Edition.  The IDE hard drive controller is the Intel
82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller.  Will this controller control both
IDE and EIDE hard drives?  What is the maximum size (GB) IDE and / or EIDE
hard drives that it will control?

Got a Gateway with 98se running with all updates. Almost crashed because HD
was full. Got 80 gig auxiliary and dumped pictures and such over there. Still
was tight so I deleted windows programs I was not using. Now I cannot share
network with my sons computer. He has ethernet ...

Yesterday my computer worked fine, but suddenly the windows update logo
pops up in the tray, telling me that my pc is infected with spyware. I
tried to make it stop, as it kept popping up - disturbing me in my
work, but with no luck. I therefore restarted my computer and now

How can I read a diskette formated with doublespace??
thanks

I currently have a test computer with three older/smaller hard drives for
Win98se, WinXP and NT2000.
I use a TRIOS unit to select the hard drive to boot up into.
I just bought an 80GB drive. I understand that I can Fdisk three separate

When I click on the shutdown button in the login screen, the text shows
up but not the pictures. I can not click on any button in the shutdown
screen. In an account it will show up, but to see the desktop I have to
go into the task manager. I then have to click new task and start

I upgraded my Win 98 to SE and it failed somewhere during setup and I got a
black screen.  Some of it installed because under System Information it says
I have Windows 98 SE.  But my computer won't shut down, my help files are
messed up, Dr. watson doesn't work. I had some messed ...

If I leave my computer unattended for some time, it is frozen.  any help to
fix this issue will be greatly appreciated.   thanks.

I use a simple boot diskette which includes the two system files and
a few DOS utilities like Fdisk, Format, etc.  I also use a floppy
to run Diskedit and sometimes Ghost.  It would be convenient to have
a functioning mouse for these other programs.

    I have experienced an annoyance in Win98SE on several systems.  I
run two full-screen MS-DOS prompts that are usually in the background, and
often switch back and forth between the DOS sessions and Windows
applications.  When I switch from a Windows application to DOS, using

I may be in the wrong topics forum for this question.
While cleaning up a friend's Compaq Presario 5070, I wrote a note using
notepad; the keyboard letters worked fine but the special characters did not.
ie: left square bracket gave me a double circumflex accent instead ( [ = ^^

Is there a program available that will display, in real time, the amount of
RAM (in MB) in use?  It would be handy if the displayed amount appeared in
the System Tray and was active all of the time.
Paul

Back in September there were some postings about what looked to be IE add-in
which kept starting up and appearing at the bottom of the screen, then
sucking memory and slowing the whole show down. (I think the poster was
"Strongest").  If I don't Ctrl-Alt-Del and close STATIC then ...