Macro$haft issued a fix for this item back in 2005 (I think) but it
only addressed half of the potential vulnerability (ie it was only a
half-baked solution).
What I'm not clear on is if Win-9x has any built-in associations for

Hello,
My step sister has a problem.. she is running win98.. dial up... after about
10 minutes online, her internet just shuts off. Everything else is fully
accessible.

I really don't know what I did to cause this.  Anyhow, suddenly (although
the BIOS identifies it correctly on boot) Windows thinks that the (IDE)
Maxtor 40G is a generic hard drive, with the consequence that I can no
longer read SMART data with any monitoring program.

Is it possible to assign a permanent drive letter to a removable USB
drive?
For example, I have a CF (card flash) drive that I'd like to make drive
'W' permanently. Went to device manager but the section to assign a

I daily cold boot.
Just starting today, when I drag a file or folder, the name appears in a
sort of transperent format at the
cursor as I'm moving it.

I was given a computer from my former employer which is running Win98 SE.  
They had upgraded all the MS Office programs to Office 10. (My outlook,
excel, word, etc. was using XP).  I started having some problems which lead
me to do a registry clean which I now lost all my XP ...

Will Flash 10 work on Windows 98SE?
Angel

Hello,
My step sister has a problem.. she is using dial up.. on win98, she looses
internet connection after about 10 minutes. Can someone please advise me how
to help her fix this problem. Everything else runs fine. I read up on an

I have an OEM system with 98 SE and recently dual booted with Linux.
The existing dialup modem doesn't work with Linux so I ordered and have
received a new modem that will work with both OS's.
I intend to "remove" the existing modem via Control Panel and physically

Tried Googling this but found nothing I could use.
Does anybody know of a generic driver for Win98FE, that will enable me
to communicate with a HDD connected via the USB port, which is 1.1, of
course?

I am using Netscape 7.2 on windows 2000 proffessional system,When i
get an mail with an attachment and when I click on it to open it,it
trie to save the attachment.Please help me to solve this issue.....

I am running Windows XP professional and I recently installed an
Airlink Wirless card.  The router that I am using is a 2wire from SBC
Yahoo DSL with the built in wireless.  When I try to connect to my
wireless network, it just sits there with the message "acquiring

As stated in the subject, I'm trying to install a Network Everywhere Fast
Ethernet card (NC100 v2). When I start to install it, it asks for a huge list
of .dlls, some extensionless files, and several .386 files. The popup says
that I can get all of these files off of the Windows ...

Are there any freeware utilities to convert .pdf to .doc or .txt?  I didn't
know where else to ask, sorry if this is the wrong place.  maybe someone
knows of a more appropriate venue for this request?
Urge

A friend want me to fix up an old laptop, so that he can give it to his
daughter. The harddisk is broken, so i doubt that i can extract the old OS,
WinME. The CPU and RAM is too weak for effective win XP/2000/Vista, and win98
is then the only solution if we exclude Unix clones. I ...