I recently bought a used Toshiba "Satellite" 2105CDS (WIN98se) laptop.
After I downloaded the drivers for this model from Toshiba's site, I formatted
the HDD and installed Win98SE (not from a "System Restore" CD).
I installed the drivers.  Everything is fine, but the dial up ...

Thank you Ron Badour. Your suggestion worked. Got to windows: but message
came up-your display adaptor is not configured properly-to correct the
problem click ok to start the hardware installation wizard, clicked ok. I did
this but it is telling me that i have problems with my ...

I use BING to make a perfect mirror backup of my main hard drive, to an
identical, separate, backup hard disk, before I install any big new
applications.   But it's kind of a pain to have to keep disconnecting and
reconnecting that damn 40 pin(?) IDE connector to the backup drive ...

How do I get Windows Explorer to start working again?
This was all precipitated by the slave HD locking up the bus.  Had to
remove it from the PC
But after removing the failed HD, rebooting can't get Windows Explorer

By now, most online reports and commentaries about the VML
vulnerability are mentioning a fix or patch available from ZERT:
http://isotf.org/zert/download.htm
They are posting a link to a page that should crash your

I am encountering the following BSOD error below whenever I turn on my
computer.  I have no way of get out of the BSOD and would like to know
what steps I can follow to get my kids computer back up and running.
Just a little background, the computer was running fine until I tried

A few days ago I formated the hardrive on my Windows 98 Second Edition
computer(because it was giving me blue screens and application errors). After
I start it up again I lose 16 bit colors and 800x600,and  1024x768 pixels
screen size. When I go into the settings tab of display ...

After installing all critical updates on a clean Win 98 install the following
error message comes up when setting the clock or calendar.
"Calendar can't find one or more of the files it needs to run.
run the Calendar setup program again to install the missing files.

I have noticed these out in the Internet and do not plan on installing
them.  However, I was wondering if there would be any good reason to
install one since Windows 98 Second Edition is not likely to be updated
again by Microsoft.  Thanks in advance for your comments.

I mentioned this in the gaming thread but I thought I should start a new
thread on this.  Is it possible with a separate partition to install
MS-DOS 6.22 and how would one go about doing that.  I am starting to
feel a desire and passion for the past and I have decided I would ...

When I select Folder Options / General / "Custom, based on the settings you
use", and then hit Apply, the selection is accepted, but once you leave the
box, either by closing it or selecting "Settings", it reverts back to the
Classic Style entry just above it. What I'm trying to do ...

How can I stop Windows98SE from automatically checking for new
updates?
I delete Windows Critical Update Notification, WULOADER.EXE  from the
scheduler but it comes back every startup.

Trouble on startup with win98se.
Message tells me that system ini has registry reference to file: cshook.vxd
that is missing, and that I should re-install the application to restore the
file.

Windows 98 set up on my computer.  Children were playing a game and informed
me that they couldn't bring up windows any more.  When system is booted it
stays at the c prompt but it does show the Windows 98 logo screen before it
goes back to dos c prompt.  I am not totally ...

Well, I can no longer access the Internet in Microsoft Windows 98 Second
Edition.  Everything is okay now in Windows XP Professional and the CPU 100%
cycle is much less since I worked with a Microsoft Support Representative on
getting the latest supported drivers for the XP Pro. ...