NB: X-post to Win98 General & WinME General.
FYI:
Windows 98, 98SE and ME: Information about Support Lifecycle and MS06-015
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/06/09/434300.aspx

One of the comps' I got given recently has two 64meg sticks of
pc100 sdram in it, yet I know for a fact that this computer used
to have one stick of 512 pc133 sdram in it;;    is ram at this level
interchangeable?

After a brief flirtation with Kazaa, now suddenly random words on the net
show up as blue "links". I've uninstalled Kazaa, used Kazaabegone, Adaware,
but this is still ocurring. Any idea how to get rid of it?
Thanks.

Where do I tell Win98SE to not open a new window every time I navigate to a
different folder?
Thanks.

When MS stops supporting win98, does that mean all the MVPs here will
scatter?  One of you mentioned going over to Vista.... what will you
do in the mean time?  Are you guys all going to the same group?  If
so, that alone would be reason enough for me to switch to Vista.  :))

Whenever I reboot my computer I get a message that reads
/sytemroot/windows/system32/autochk.exe not found skipping autocheck
After this message appears it goes to my desktop and everything seems
to be running normally tried to search the autoexec file which appears

Where does winipcfg get its information.
Last year I had to release and renew winipcfg because I could not
get to a particular site. Could not even get a ping response.
I just ran into the same problem when trying to DL Java -7. When

Internat casued a general protection fault in module ATI 2DRAE DRV at
0003:00001053  
after clicking igore and then closed the opened IE brower and ICQ and Yahoo
Messenger, turned up a blue screen Fatal Exception 0E at 0028:C152465E in VXD

My Win98  unit was locking-up on me, so I re-booted (several times).  When it
finally came up, my shortcuts no longer worked.  
Instead of opening what they were linked to, they displayed the "Open As"
box where you're suppose to select the program to open them under(it

When I boot step-by-step, it makes it thru msmouse.vxd and continues for a
while after Ethernet lights up, then the pc hangs.  I have to hard reset to
recover, as it won't ctrl-alt-del reboot out of it.
I've tried the Q262232 (hsflop.pdr) fix, which didn't fix it.

OS is Win98se
Machine by Dell
Sound system is Turtle Beach Montego II
In the process of reinstalling my OS to a clean single partition, the sound

I downloaded all the updates and saved them in a folder.
Since there are so many of them how would I know which one I need to
install. So far the Windows Update site has an option to scan the computer
and detect which of the updates I need. But once this site becomes

i have three technical questions pertaining to windows 98:
ONE: i am using the asus a7v333-x motherboard, 3dfx voodoo4 4500 agp and
viewsonic p95f+ monitor. and i am wondering if theres a setting i can change,
remove or uninstall, from the system, that doesnt require editing the

i have three technical questions pertaining to windows 98:
ONE: i am using the asus a7v333-x motherboard, 3dfx voodoo4 4500 agp and
viewsonic p95f+ monitor. and i am wondering if theres a setting i can change,
remove or uninstall, from the system, that doesnt require editing the

This post is an outgrowth of the thread "Excessive Disk Activity on Startup", in which it was
suggested that I pose a more Norton AV-directed question.
From that thread I determined (thanks to much help from PCR, et.al.) that NAV is causing a 3.5
minute delay in my startup process.  ...