I've posted to the windowsxpbasics newsgroup with a subject line of
Incomplete Boot. The advise regards a possible MOBO replacement. It is a
Dell and the reply poster declared that to replace the Dell MOBO a new OS
must be requisitioned...unless it is the same Dell MOBO. Can someone ...

I have been sifting through the responses on how to remotely disable
screensavers for XP through the registry.  We have a handful of PCs
networked together using workgroups, for which we would like to disable
the screensavers on all machines for all users.  Due to the nature of

I am using Win98SE2. It is fast and reliable, so I don't want to upgrade it
Yet unfornately I accidentally deleted the driver for sound and unable to
reinstall it again !
The PC cannot playback any sound now.

XP.
What a joke.
This is an example of Macro$haft support for a "supported product" ?
How many bandaids can you (should you) apply to a product before it

I'm really stuck and would appreciate some help.  I'm trying to run an iPod
on Windows 98, not the iTunes software, just connecting the hardware.  I
downloaded the driver set that's supposed to make this work.
When I plugged in the iPod for the first time, Windows did the expected

A friend is having a problem trying to install NAV 2006 on her Windows 98SE
PC.
The installation goes to completion OK but the PC always hangs up when it
gets to the point where it says "Configuring Norton Antivirus".

Changed my operating system from Windows 95 to Windows 98 SE some months ago
and now the HP 2100c, scanner, is unavailable to my Dell desktop computer.  
This scanner, cables, etc. worked on this very same computer when it ran
Windows 95.  Also, I moved the scanner to another ...

When we boot up, at the end of the bit with all the "wordy" info scrolling
up the screen, it comes to the bit with the desktop background, in our case
a space station, WELL, at this point, we get a box appear entitled, "ENTER
NETWORK PASSWORD".

I am facing a strange problem. I have win 98 SE installed in one of my
networked PC. All is working fine but today when I tried to open one LAN
operating software following error occured:
Description: The attempt to connect timed outNumber:10060

How do I use the Windows 98SE DOS ping command to ping a particular port number? I need
to test to see if my ISP is blocking certain ports.
For example, if I want to ping Port 25 on SMTP.MYSITE.COM  from my computer. I tried
C:\> ping smtp.mysite.com:25

Greetings all,
I have 3 almost identical HDDs and I thought to copy one (HDD1 as C drive
Master) to another (HDD2 as D drive Slave) - so that if HDD1 fails or is
infected I can rapidly put HDD2 in its place. Normally HDD3 is the D drive

Sorry to say, www.Crucial.com is no longer carrying many of the memory sticks for older model PC's.
However I found that www.4allmemory.com is still making older model memory sticks available.
I had always relied on Crucial for memory, but now find I can get more from 4allmemory, ...

While I was cruising around the registry about a week ago, I temporarily
went insane (understandable ;-) and deleted a key for an unused email
account.  Now Outlook (ver. 2000, running under Win98 First Ed.) won't
remember my email account password, blanking it out even with the ...

I'm hoping someone could explain why the following occurred.
For the first time, I used the magnifier, found in Programs/Accessories/...
I was attempting to see if I could make out the letters in an image, but it
didn't help.  Under settings, I then checked the "Use High Contrast" ...

It's been some time since reading this newsgroup.  It's been a great source
of information and advice for me.
My mom, was given an older Compaq Pentium 75MHz with 24MB RAM and a Cirrus
Logic 5434 with 1MB of video RAM!.  My old Pentium 60MHz, had a Cirrus Logic