Hello. I am using an old Windows 98 computer that doesn't seem to work
properly.
Apart from all the hard drive and boot problems, there are more problems
with the drivers on the computer.

My kids were playing with my older laptop and tried to use the install disk.
Unfortunatly they did not complete the set-up process and I don't have an ID
Key. Microsoft support would not help me since the version is unsupported.
Any way to get a key for this thing?

I get a "Too many Parameters" message when I start up my
IBM laptop running Windows 98SE.  How can I fix this or is
it OK to ignore.
Thanks

When I right click on a picture and select "Save As" the pop up window has the list
of
files all jumbled.  When I right click in that list and do an "Arrange Icons" - "By
Name", the list is sorted in reverse alpha.  Repeating this does not result in an

A friend has an old eMachines 480i in his office, with two phyiscal hard
drives; a C: drive (named "Server") and a D: drive named "Presario." The "D"
drive came from a former computer and contains his office management
software. Until Friday, when the computer would boot, it ...

Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell
Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy,
choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have
Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at ...

Thanks to all,
finally nutted it out thanks to a fantastic forum
with a cynosure on Australian Broadband
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum.cfm

This is Win98se
For some reason there is some icon confusion going on.  For example, I
have a program called "Hosts Toggle" (to turn on and off the hosts
file).  Right now, all files with the PDF extension have the icon from

The other day, I tryed to restore a backup registry but, according to
Scanreg, all 5 backups were bad. Why would all 5 registry backups be bad?

Hello, I've not used this group before but if someone could point me in the
right direction I would be grateful. Trying to fix friends laptop with 98
installed. Gets just past boot up then we get Norton warning (in a DOS
screen) that the "Ripper virus was found in memory" and to ...

I have some questions about my Verbatim 1 GB Jump/Flash drive I am
running windows 98SE
When I fill the flash drive up and then trash stuff does it open up
space on the drive? Are these type devices more picky about non

I'm currently using an old windows 98 computer. And on it the My
Documents folder has been mapped to a UNC address that is no longer
valid/active as the server that it addresses has been since
'decomissioned'. However, I can't change the location of where the My

I used to run Cakewalk 3.0 music sequencing software on my old 446 machine  
running Windows 95.
I now have it installed on my Celeron PC running on Windows XP. It works
just fine there too.  

when i start my system a messege appears in red saying system hardware
abnormal it still boots up and run's but it is kinda slow what can i do about
this

While I would like the USB and other upgraded support options of SE, I
have been putting off upgrading to SE on an older laptop, because, 1.)
the FE config is running great & 2.) if anything goes wrong with the
upgrade, I don't look forward to reinstalling FE with all the fixes.