My six year old Windows GUI customization project may be nearing an end. The
idea has been to put the heavy hitters in the quick launch toolbar (and
rename them using single keyboard symbols, like } or ;), put the lesser
shortcuts in a meaningfully organized start menu, and clear ...

I turned of the typical password for the screen saver when in idle mode. But
when the computer is first turned on it askes for a password which I don't
have and so just press the enter key and it boots fine.
But if I don't get to it in time the screensaver comes on and asks for

I KEEP GETTING  WINDOW 'ISTSVC HAS PERFORMED ILLEGAL OPERATION' ALSO POP UP
WITH ISTSVC HEADING HOW CAN I GET RID OF ISTSVC AND WILL IT CAUSE ANY HARM BY
DELETING IT

My Win98 machine's HD is partitioned into C: & D:, 2 gigabytes each,
and the swap file is on C:  I've notice, during the defrag of C:, there
are certain blocks of spread-out clusters that never get moved.  I am
assuming they are the swap file.  Would the swap file function better

Convert videos / audios to PSP
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I have just pluged in a USB key, and the system requires a USB Mass Storage
Device driver.
Where can I get hold of one, as I cannot find one manually searching
Microsoft or the internet manually.

One last topic this morning.
I recently broke down and bought a full version of Win98SE, OEM on
eBay.  Since 98 was installed on my Thinkpad by IBM, I did not have an
OS CD, so, rather than do an upgrade, and still have the OS on the HD,

I need the "open with" function. The literature says that holding down the
shift key and pressing the right mouse button will bring it up. It doesn't.
Neither does shift-F10.
I need this function so badly that I am even willing to get into the

I have one machine running XP Pro and another with plain old Win98.  I
recently saw a series of posts on the XP Maintain Usenet group,
regarding the use of registry cleaners with XP.  The consensus was,
DON"T, and NOT NEEDED.  Therefore, I WON'T.

Hello Mr. Badour/whomever:  The Phoenix BIOS Setup Utility on my
computer, reports my installed O/S as:  [Win98/Win2000]. Is this a
Win9x environment? How does this concern the files I use for updating,
troubleshooting, diagnostics, and etc.? There was also this: "Legacy

Computer keeps crashing with fatal exception message 0028:CE3AF162 in VXD DVP
(01).  How do I solve this?

I'm trying to troubleshoot my wife's computer's shutdown problems. It
hangs at the "windows is shutting down" screen. This is a daunting
task for me since I'm not a computer tech. There is a wealth of info
about win98se shutdown problems but they all go quickly into areas

I cleared temp internet files and the operating system disappeared. upon
reboot into safe mode the desktop says nothing but safe mode when the gui
comes up. It asks for product key when booting normally. I don't have the
original manuel w/key and it is awindows tower but no ...

How can I add an arrow to a picture so that it point to a specific area in
the picture or person?
Sol

Suddenly all my jpegs open w/ quicktime. I want them to open w/ iexplore. I
went to settings and it says my jpegs should open with iexplore.
What can I do to get my jpegs back?