I realize this question is OT, but I hope someone here is familiar with ME.
The Recycle Bin has 273 MB of folders that won't delete. Also, they are named
De01, etc.
I had this problem in W98SE, good advice here led to delete the Recycle Bin, it

When I boot my machine, I get the message "While initializing device
LMOUSE:" on an otherwise blank screen and the machine just hangs there.
Booting up in safe mode works and everything seems fine. Any hints
would be very gratefully received. Here's what I've done so far after

HP 8200 CDWriter and Mitsumi CD drive in W98SE
I don't use the writer drive very often, but it usually makes data CD's
with few coasters.
Last time, I was making backup data CD's, made several fine. I reboot

When I try to delete an icon from the desktop I get the message, 'Recycle Bin
Format is Invalid.  Do you want to continue?'.  The machine freezes at this
point, and I have to press the power button to turn it off.

Has anyone had dealings with free BSD?
 http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/bsd.html
It is a free base/build your own OS.

I must be one of the few dying breeds that still uses win98se on a
fairly decent machine (P4 2.8ghz 512mb ram nvidia fx5900 etc). But the
problem is nowadays there are lots of new games that have their minimum
requirements as Win XP only. I haven't had the time to upgrade to WinXP

Recently I reprogramed one of my computers and now am unable to access text
files: I can open and use the notepad but can't open a saved file, although I
can access it using the quick view mode.  I have checked the file types and
see there is reference to the notepad app.  Can ...

[boot]
oemfonts.fon=vgaoem.fon
shell=Explorer.exe
system.drv=system.drv

I think this started after the last win98/IE updates.
When I open, let's say, "My Documents", View as Web Page shows nothing but
the little icons that come up when pictures won't load. This is the same in
any opened file.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\AlwaysUnloadDll]
@="1"

Hi, I am having a small problem getting up on the Internet. When I
click on Internet Explorer icon after using my dialup connection to get
on the Net, it goes to a .....dnl.servererror thingie, sure you know
what I mean. Now, if I do it again, it finally works, then kicks me up

I'm wondering if I've got a problem here -
I just downloaded the latest WU, 3.5mb. Big day on the computer, as earlier
in the day I installed Verizon DSL. The actual download went fine, but the
update has been installing for 25 minutes and is barely half done.

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (905915)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms05-054.mspx
Successful Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1

I added a new 15" LCD and every time I restart windows, I have to power
cycle the monitor to get the display correct, or not turn on the monitor
until windows fully loads. The desktop is stretched vertically off the
bottom of the screen but horizontally looks correct. The icons and

WIN98SE
I've set up a batch file with a few SUBST commands, and a shortcut to the
file in the Startup folder.
The batch file runs OK at startup but does not terminate. I have to close