Suddenly, today, my OE indicates
that I have 4  eg:(4) unread emails in my inbox.
My inbox is clear
are there gremlins aboard perhaps?

my firewall is internal and i can not find how to turn it off or to add a
internet site to it.please some one help i can not down load any music while
its on.

Trto remove some programe thru the add/remove program but it fails. Program
like Search Bar, Yahoo Instant menu? Thanks in advance.

My home PC not able to dial up due to my modem some missing files during
installation. I was advice to download it from the internet the missing
drivers/files. The problemis my home computer using Win98SE and my office
using WinXP as the result whatever I download from WinXP I ...

I have installed a sound card on my computer that has windows 98se.  the
problem is that at startup, windows detects and tries to install multimedia
device that i donot use.  i believe that this device is part of the
motherboard.  is there anyway to stop windows from detecting ...

Thanks to all suggestions from all MVP's
I used Brian's post,
although I had 4 id's, I located the ID that had dbx's that
mirrored all those in my current OE folder.

"Please try to use microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion for future
posts and replies because this group (microsoft.public.win98) is
practically a dormant group" says 98Guy in Networking discussion group.
I acquired  a computer from a  former employer who was going to trash it a

i need ur support,i have domain controller 2000 server and i want to upgrade
the server from 200 to 2003 server standard edition.the clients used windows
98 and i can't upgrade the clients because there is another application just
working on windows 98.my question when upgrade ...

Even with firewall and anti-virus disabled, I can't open the file
<jre-1_5_0_09-windows-i586-p-s.exe>, which is the latest version of Java
5.0. In fact I couldn't even delete it without rebooting first. Anybody know
what the problem is?

when installing my new anti virus program I get msg that I need to update my
windows installer... have tried but when I try to install the new version I
keep getting "service device already exists"..
how do I install the new version so I can install my anti virus?

this is the message on the screen and everytime you try to get online
you get a message that says it has performed an illegal action and has
to shut down.  unable to get online for patches on that computer d/t
shuts down and reloads each time.  it also says the computer has been

This should go to the Outlook Express group, but no one has posted there for
a couple of weeks.  Thought I'd try here 1st, in case someone may know the
answer.
I just did what we probably all have done at one time or another.

brought a second hand computer with windows 98 already installed on it, the
computer worked fine until my sons went exploring on it and deleted some
files. when i cut the computer on it say "cannot find a device that may be
needed to run windows or a window application" as stated ...

Is there a program (preferably free) that will allow one to recover a
deleted folder in Win98 and WinXP?  I know there are programs for
deleted files, but I need to recover the whole folder.
Thanks

I need to find the date that I installed my new DVD drive.  I'm sure that there is a changed .inf or something that will reveal all.  Having a blonde moment.