Every time I boot up 98SE I get a prompt inviting me to enter my Network
Password
for Microsoft Networking that pauses the boot until I cancel it. This has
only started since I installed a Voyager 210 router and whilst it's not

Hello, again......
        I decided to try something that involved my registry, and now I
need some guidance.  No, my computer seems to have survived my
experiment thus far.  Here is a little background that leads to my

Hello all you musicicians here in XP General and W98, and hardware NG's :-)
I've just spent a very satisfying morning, pulling a system box apart and
putting it back together again - PROPERLY with LOTS of TLC !!!! - ...I think
it was built someone that "knows all about computers"  ...

I recently installed Alcohol 120% (30 days trial). At the time of
installation, I created a virtual DVD drive to load image files. At the
end of trial, I decided to uninstall Alcohol 120%. So, I uninstalled it
through it's Uninstall option in Start Menu. However on restarting the

I was deleting stuff off my old computer, including AOL, to give to my niece
and now it displays this exact following message part way through start up:
""Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a Windows
application.    The Windows registry or System.ini ...

I am moving to new ISP. Broadband connection via cable modem (share cable TV
signal and internet). After attaching modem I find that web pages not loads
in browser. IE browser status bar show 'Detecting proxy settings..', then
'Connecting to site: IP ... ... ....", all this is ...

My system is a Win98se system with all updates. Recently I went to the
Symantec site to use their 'autofix' program and it says I need ActiveX.
There is "no" yellow bar which says 'install' so where/how can I get ActiveX
as a download and install the ActiveX? Are there 'several' ...

Howdy! I have a bunch of messages in one of my OutlookExpress folders that I want to convert all messages to a word processor format. Is there any easy way to do this?  Thanks! Always, Gene

After Win98 did an "automatic" registry replacement to something that
did not work, there was a good excuse to reinstall Win98SE, Office 97
etc.  all clean start.
But now, Windows Explorer's expansion and contraction of the view in

I'm trying to use a Dell USB 64 MB removable drive/stick with Windows 98. I'm
trying to download a driver from Dell to make this work. They direct me to a
dead-end link. Any suggestions?

Using a Compact deskpro, I am having a problem with the Excel program that is
on my Office 97. Every other program in the Office 97 works great except
Excel. It has been working great and now when I try to open it I get a
message that says “This program has performed an illegal ...

W98 SE doesn't boot on my IBM ThinkPad 600.  I can boot to
Safe Mode and Step-by-Step loading mode, but not to regular
mode.
ONSET:

As a result of a much screwed up attempt to install a removable drive (done
right on another machine and working fine), we have a phantom removable
drive in the first machine.  It appears in My Computer as "Removable Disk
(E:)" (there is also the C drive and a CD drive).  The ...

This is a continuation of a previous discussion, that I started
awhile ago titled “Ad-Aware and SpyBot Questions”.  In reality, that
earlier posting ended up being a discussion about the removal of McAfee
from my system…particularly as it related to removing registry entries

I need to find an easy route to a replacemnt disk as mine has been lost.
I have the product code
As you can guess i'm a complete novice
Thank in advance.