When windows is booting up i get this error massage .Windows found an error
in your system files and restored a recent back-up of the files to fix the
problem.Then it tells you to restart,but nothing happens but the same
massage, over an over ,thanks in advance.

Question for M$ Fanboys:
Is Windows 7 finally the compelling reason to migrate from Windows 98?
Side question: what do I do for Microsoft Fax?

This is KB973688 (released just last week?).
Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 has been tested on Win-98
and appears to be compatible.
It includes the ANSI Resources file (msxml4a.dll).

There will unfortunately come a time when you will have to repair your
computers registry. Most of us who use computers are continuously
installing and removing multiple software programs which are the root
of registry problems. You see, when you perform the above actions it

For the first time ever, when I bootup 98SE, I get a "Drive not
Found", insert boot floppy then press any key, nothing happens. When I
reboot the machine with the boot floppy in it, I get the 3 possibility
error choice before the "A" prompt. either not a valid Fat32

In W98, no sounds. In the Sounds dialog, the arrow for testing Sounds events
is grayed out. I figured it was a driver problem. In Device Manager, it says
PCI Multimedia Audio Device. I double click on that and it says "drivers for
this device are not installed. (Code 28) To ...

Some new/additional vulnerabilities have been defined which may be of
interest should you be running JAVA and Office applications [2002 - up]
[Excel, Word, other]. It is recommended to review these potential
issues, and seek updates or fixes if/when available.

I still want to be able to play YouTubes and other videos online from
Windows 98 using Firefox. An earlier thread talked about the FLV Player, but
that doesn't seem to play videos online. It's for saving files to your
computer and playing them there. As it is now, if I go to a ...

After a system settings change that requires a computer restart or when I
select Start/Shut Down/Restart, the computer will not restart:  Diskette
Drive gets interrogated, but the display remains black with no further
progress.  I have to turn off the computer by the tower switch ...

What type of PCI modem do I need?
I didn't realize there are two different type of pci modems.
The larger pci modem will fits the whole slot,  the smaller pci modem
fits it but does not use the whole slot and wont work.

Is there any software out there that would allow me to ghost a win98 machine?

Can't convert with free version of Foxit Reader, works well to read
the new format pdf's, but does not convert to text
free-pdf-to-word-converter.exe  588KB
Free PDF to RTF Converter 1.5 seems to reorganize the simplest of

Tried three of flv players:
??
Flash Movie Player
Riva something

Some of the below may not have relevance in 9X, make sure to check the
actual related articles.
adobe -- shockwave_player
Vulnerable software and versions

Microsoft has released a new version of mshtml.dll.  Apparently there
was a problem with the one they released as part of the IE update
roll-up MS09-054 (974455).
Do not download/install this file if you haven't yet obtained and