I don't really want/need "My Briefcase" - actually, I never really
understood it or managed to use it properly.
Can I simply delete it or would this have unforeseen consequences?
Thank you.

Just recently I got a very unexpected laptop only used for 3 months!
Although it is technically obsolete I have many applications that I
have come up with to use it for. However, it has two different hard
drive partitions it came with, C and D, one is completely blank, one I

  I need to to a fresh install of Win. 98 onto an old Dell laptop. i don't
have the laptop with me but i know it is old and came with 98 when new. My
question is,
does 98 boot from the CD like XP when you are doing an install or is there

How do I find which program is running in the background after starting
W89SE, I can only see my Anti-Virus Icon near the clock & I don't believe its
the problem.
Are there any good programs that will detect & show whats running in the

There is a directory in C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files
What is the purpose of this directory. Is it safe to delete the entire
directory and how? Would it cause any problems if I do?
I was playing with this directory and I made a duplicate directory in my D:

I have an old puter with Windows 98 originally loaded and Internet Explorer
4.0...having many problems...(previous posts)
I have a copy of MY old Windows 98 Second Edition which I want to install.
Can I run it right over without removing the Windows 98 that came on the

I had Windows 95 on my old laptop, I upgraded to Windows 98 using the Upgrade
disc.  Now I am installing a new piece of hardware and drivers.  The
installation process asks me to insert the Windows 98 disk.  I only have the
Windows 98 upgrade disk, which is not acceptbale.  What ...

    Extracted contents of a rar file to my 'foto' folder. Extraction
progress bar showed as working. Nothing showed up in 'foto' folder!? Tried
again and extraction window said files already exist and so replaced all.
Still nothing in 'foto' folder. Tried extracting to another new ...

I have more troule in W98SE with the Recycled Bin than anything else.
Awhile ago, PCR gave me good advice on corrupted bin:
In DOS prompt,
Deltree  /y  c:\recycled\

On 29th Jan '06 posted multi problems on Win 98 Performance here (Dr Watson,
etc.).  These all now satisfactorily solved, but I have one fault that
remains - it's always the same and reoccurs after about an hour when the
'browser' page open is entered to clear an address or text, ...

I've been successfully using the CD burning program Express Burn from NHC
Swift until recently, when it mysteriously stopped working, popping out the
CD shortly after the burning process started, and displaying a failure
message on the screen. In their Help forum some others have ...

How do I enter a password for Win 98?  Right now, the window comes up with
the word "default" already typed in, and that works.  I would like to set an
actual password, so how do I do that???

Ok here's the story.  I lent my old PII to a family member with Win 98
installed.  After about a year I get it back and they had installed XP.
Of course it's slow like malasses and since I was going to let my kids
play games and connect to the net, I formated the HD and tried to

(I am running Norton Crash Guard.)
When I attempt to launch "add new hardware" (either from the control panel
or from the 'found new hardware' dialog box), I get crashguard intercepted a
crash in rundll32.exe.

I am using Windows98 and have an Olympus D-360L Digital Camera. The sotware
for this camera got corrupted on my PC (Camedia Software crashed everytime
I wanted to access it) so I deleted it from my PC thinking that I will just
reinstall it from the CD that came with the camera. ...