I found it necessary to reinstall Windows 98, but have apparently
misplaced my product key and am stuck there. Is there any legal way to
get around this? Thanks

Yesterday and today I have whilst in IE or OE I have had a IEXPLORE or MSISMN
GENERAL PROTECTION FAULTs. Why is this happening ?? Do I need to fix
something?

Bill Gates says in his wmv vulnerability bulletin FAQ:
Are Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium
Edition critically affected by one or more of the
vulnerabilities that are addressed in this security bulletin?

<QP>
[FAQ]
Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME) were previously listed as

05-Jan-06 / Weird long filename problem...
DELL / WIN98SE/ IE6
If anyone interested, here's a strange one. It's a bit long on detail so as
not to miss anything that might help explain this.

have a Win98 system that kept getting Invalid System Disk so i put in a boot
disk and did sys c: and now when it boots it just goes straight to a command
prompt c:\> and if i hit F8 it gives me the menu than when i choose safe mode
or normal mode it says "Windows is bypassing ...

I have been having trouble with scandisk for a while now, but only in my hard
drive C and not in the removable drives...so I'm wondering if anyone else
knows what's going on and if there is a way to uninstall scandisk and
reinstall it to fix the problem its having?

When I boot Windows 98 I get the error message  "Error in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\NvCpl.dll   Missing entry NvStartup."  Can someone tell me
what the problem is, and how to fix it?  Thanks

From my anti-virus software I receive a notice that a vulnerability has been
detected on my PC (windows 98).  The message is; Vulnerability MSOS-050
To delete it you must apply the patches that fix the vulnerability.
My question is where do I find that patch.

Re: V. long filename download to DeskTop
Just a quick pop-back-in here to drop a comment. This might be
useful to someone. I experienced these minor problems recently
when downloading web pages w/ "very long file names" (which

03-Jan-06
Re: Tweak UI (the note at Power Toys download site said this would work in
Win98 also)
I tried to install TweakUI (downloaded a day ago from Microsoft site for

 I would appreciate a little advice on MS URL's.
 Is a URL name that does not start with:  microsoft , a valid Microsoft URL?
 Fir instance,  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkID=24748
 Thanks for any advice.

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Now I have a new error message. I re formatted the hard drive and
reinstalled Windows 98SE. Now after Windows is installed but not
finished configuring I get: A fatal exception OE has occured at
0028:C003BD1E in VXD FAT(01) =00003DF2

This is an ME question.
A month ago, I had a corrupted recycle bin. With good advice here, I deleted it
and recreated it, basically as I had done, with advice, in W98SE.
But in ME, I now notice that when I delete a file, it vanishes. As if I deleted in