I have recently been updating an old win 98 (gateway computer) and I
did a restore using and old packard utility ( long story short the
orginal hard drive died - i took it from another machine that was a
packard bell) it worked but i had other problems so i went back to

I have an older gateway,E-4200 system,
and ever since I installed a Seagate hard drive as a slave, I can not seem
to get to the page where you have the options to boot to safe mode, command
prompt only, start with CD rom support etc.

For some strange reason ZoneAlarm have dropped their Windows 98/ME firewall
product.  As Windows XP has a built in firewall I can't see how they can
make money now but anyway..
Does anyone know of a firewall product which I can download for Windows 98.

Been spending time chasing down bsod's and appropiate hex error msgs.
Have used KB but with no luck relating to 4 of the msgs. I also
know of 3 other 'good' sites, but still cant find ones I need.
Anyone know of  a 'good' site with 'Fatal Execeptions' as only and

   I often downloaded software from www.simtel.net.   Now, they changed their
system which I assume is suppose to be more secure?
   I have a Windows 98 computer with Netscape 7.0 browser.  When I tried to
download a program.zip ("program.zip" is not the actual name),  I ...

I have recently been unable to get any sound from my sound card.  I
currently have a driver conflict in my device manager.  I own a
Soundblaster Audigy card and the conflict is with Creative SB16
Emulation.  The message is as follows ---

I recently added a removable disk to my Windows 98SE computer system.  I
did this in order to have a ready backup capability on my computer.
Now, here is my dilemma.  I was about to purchase Norton Save and
Restore or Norton Ghost 10.0 software for this task.  I note, however,

I have a question about hardware on Windows 98. If there is a better
place to ask this, please tell me.
Basically I developed a ISA card myself. It has a 16-bit ISA Bus and
does not support Plug & Play. It has 8 switches to select which address

Can anyone tell me if I can run a second home PC for the kids on Broadband.
The kids PC is a Pentium 566MHz running Win98SE. I would be running a WiFi
Router from my PC which is a P4 3.2GHz.
If not will the second system work if I up it to either Windows 2000 or XP

Just writing to see if others feel the same way. I am not of the
computer generation so every new computer learning experience is a
challenge. Without books or courses, I somehow manage to enjoy, with
increasing comfort, my Win98SE computing experience, on my P3 600, 256

 I am trying to install win98SE on a gateway computer. My problem is,
when I get past the "gateway" screen, the screen goes blank. I can hear the
CD running, but the screen never comes back in. I am at a stand still and
have tried other video cards, different cords, etc...but ...

I recently installed a new hard drive and configured it to be the Master.
Since my computer and software is so old, I installed Win98 SE. With the two
hard drives, and a Zip drive, my cd-rom became the F drive. When I installed
Win98 SE, I disconnected the D drive because Windows ...

where does 7.0 put web cookies & temp files?
Does not appear to be same location as Explorer 6

How can I remove my name from the registration of the computer and software?  
I am giving away a pentium III computer with the relevant software but do not
want my name remaining on the computer.

Happy New Year!
I am a die hard running Win98SE and on start up windows can not detect a
mouse.  It's been fine apparently until my daughter downloaded some mouse
enhancing program. I've tried to delete that and  I've run the hardware