What is this? Two versions of an undocumented ping command?
My provider is Verizon DSL.
8.15.7.117 seems to be a redirect via Verizon
Is therw a web based Reverse DNS I can look these up in?

Is anyone running a win 98 se virtual machine under XP using ms virtual PC
2007?
FACE

I've had my win98se PC since 1999. Its running 85% free resources atm. I've
finally had to buy another k/board which has a USB plug only.
There is a USB port on the rear of the PC and mention of a heap of USB files
after doing a "search for files".

When I type anything in Internet Explorer, Word, etc all of the windows
minimize and sometimes Windows Explorer opens. This doesn't seem to happen in
DOS mode. Any thoughts?

I am helping a friend with a small problem, and I would appreciate
some help. He has an older Sony VAIO laptop and we are trying to
install an SMC PCMCIA card so that he can join a wireless network.
When we insert the card, Windows pops up and asks for a driver for a

Was doing a virus scan and Norton found a low risk virus that it
automatically removed. Just to be sure I looked at the docs for the virus and
it mentioned that certain entries may have to be deleted from the registry.
Since I use my own account, most of my keys fall under

I'm not sure where to ask this.  I need to get a new ISP because the
one I am using now cut the newsgroup access, their spam blocker sends
the spam and blocks my good email, and now they are insisting I
upgrade to XP.   Their service was already horrid, and now they are

I have followed the Help for installing Dial Up Networking Server, but
it does not show up in the Dial Up Networking folder. I have un-
checked it in the Windows component list and restarted to be sure it
is uninstalled, then checked it followed the prompts for getting it

I began downloading a .ISO file, but I stopped it.  I know this is a
CD image file, but I do not burn CDs.  I do not use CDs at all except
those that come from a factory with data on them.  I would not have
the faintest idea how to even begin to burn a CD, and in all honesty,

For some reason, the second physical drive I have in my system got really
slow.
Acts like it is even slower than without DMA and it hogs system resources
when trying to do any type of read or write functions to it.

I am trying to get to get win 98, on my old laptop,  to read my pcmia card.  
When I run set up from the downloaded driver file from the US Robotics web
site, it tells me that it detects win95.  It also tells me to run the win95
setup wizard but I can't find it.  Help would be ...

Iam able to connect through INTERNET EXPLORER and iam getting the
webpages.But iam unable to connect through OPERA and MOZILLA
FIREFOX.The webpages are not displaying and saying a message that
"unable to connect".

Thank you everyone! I really appreciate you sticking with me through this. Someone
sent me the 3 DLL files I was missing. I installed them and was able to run the
repair tool for IE6SP1. But that didn't help. I cleaned up my startup items with help
from the group. I deleted a lot of ...

We are having a severe weather alert.  The weather reporter just said
"Stay away from windows".  Does that include Windows 98, or is that
just for XP and Vista?
Maybe I should use my Linux computer to get the weather report

Just want to thank Gary, Pa Bear, Glee, and all the other folks that have
contributed here.
After b11_ left to the xp general group, its been pretty quiet.  Not
complaining mind you.  Last long thread I saw was about XP SP3, not 98/98SE.