I have noticed when Windows XP has trouble reading a CD it seems to
suddenly jump the Central Processing Unit cycle to the maximum possible
although this does not seem to help.  I am puzzled as to why XP
Professional does this and I have not noticed this annoying behavior in

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My computer crashed over the weekend. I have Windows 98 on my system. When I
turn on my computer, the only thing that appears after the windows screen is
an internet explorer box saying that there has been an error and the program
must close. When I click on the x and the close ...

Can anyone tell me where can I get the following files so i can boot my system.
himem.sys
dblbuff.sys
ifshlp.sys

i wish to add extra parallel port to my computer. for which i am
thinking to add a parallel port PCI card. i have searched for it on
ONLINE market but finding it quite expensive. please can any one
suggest me any other way to add extra parallel port to my computer???

I have a (MicroHelp) Unistaller program on my W98se computer.
Orginally designed for W95, the program, amongst other things, "packages" a
program, and all of its components, on a computer running Uninstaller, to a
second computer also running Uninstaller.

can anyone email the files below to scotty52060@yahoo.com. I would really
appreciate it.
 himem.sys
 dblbuff.sys

One post suggested my optical mouse could be causing this. I believe it is a
hacker probe from a MySpace user causing these 20 second interruptions. I have
eTrust AV and the Tiny Personal Firewall 2.15. I don't have a router, but maybe
I should get one after this.

can anyone email the files below to scotty52060@yahoo.com. I would really
appreciate it.
 himem.sys
 dblbuff.sys

Will someone tell me what to do about this, please?
I back up files to zip disks. It's been a few weeks since I last did
it. I haven't done anything unusual with my computer lately, but today
I tried to back up to zip and couldn't. Windows insisted nothing was

Tried to shutdown windows98-stay on logo screening and tells me it is
shutting down-froze up. Shut down computer. When restarting: comes up:
verifying dmi data....  then
c:\>c:\windows\net start

When I left town for three months this summer and knew I was not going to be
able to access the Internet I shut down several programs that normally start
on startup.  I did this by unchecking the boxes for the programs at a couple
of the tabs under "control panel --> startup."  Now ...

My system came from a commercial LAN (a network named "Bluegrass" geared
toward mechanical contractors), and calls for a password at system startup.
I bypass it by pressing Enter, so it's a minor inconvenience, but I would
like to remove it altogether.

Sorry to bother you all with this, but I've got a T22 that I want to
install Win 98se on. Scandisk comes up with that there might be a
problem on C:\. It then says choose fix it  to correct the prob.
But then it says don't fix the drive if its been formatted with NTFS,

Arrrrgggg!
getting slow, sluggish
some websites cause a distinct
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be closed"