my computer is teling me that drive A is using MS-DOS
compatibility mode file system. can anyone tell me how to
fix that asap

Hi everyone! Can anyone tell me if there is an internet site or book that
will show me what applications should open with a the correct program?
Someone really messed with my computer. They did many things. This being
just one of them. I cannot even get any .Bmp images to open ...

I had windows 95 and was upgraded to Windows 98 on my old
machine.What does the message mean, "You have performed
an Illegal Act and will be shut down"? How do I stop this
from coming up all the time?

I need some help?
My computer freezes alot. It freezs randomly. I defrag
recently and problems still occurring. Does anybody give
me suggestions to fix this problem?

something is writing to my c drive and keeps me from
scanning and defrag.Had a tech look at it and he couldn't
fix it.

My computer's clock seems to stop working when I turn off
the computer each day. When I arrive in the morning, my
computer clock is still on the previous day. I can reset
it, and it works fine while I am working during the day.

Dear Sir,
When I give shutdown command to my computer having WIN98
the system restarts and i am unable to go for a proper
shutdown process. Please help me in this matter.

this is probobly the wrong newsgroup to post this
question, so sorry.
i need to know how to change the administrative privilege
on a windows 98 computer, i have a program that will not

I'm creating a delphi program that needs a lot of
TWinControls and therefore eat a lot of system resource.  
No problems occur when i run the program on Windows 2000
or Windows XP.  However with Windows 98 a get all sorts of

When I try to defrag, I receive a message stating I do not
have enough free memory, quit one or more programs, even
tho I do not have any open.  Is the problem the programs
running in the background on the taskbar.  How do I resolve

Seems like the disk rattles along for minutes. Whats it doing? Looking to see
if every darn thing that was ever in the registry is still out on the disk? How
do you get rid of all that old chaff?

Ever since I decided to do a clean reinstall of Win98SE
(including FDSIK & FORMAT) it occasionally pauses for an
excessive period during disk intensive activities. It
boots up ok (in ~30 sec) and shutsdown real fast as I've

Removed some "spy ware" entries using Ad-ware 6.0 and
didn't save removed entries.  Now, on boot, monitor
briefly displays "starting windows" screen and goes to C:>
prompt.  "win" keyed on the command line brings up

Hi, I am getting a "suggested SDRAM cas latency time is
2" during boot.  Can anyone help me out with a definition
or explanation about this?
Thank you, John Pushaw

I am no longer able to move my desktop icons around where
I want to. If I move one, it just goes to the end of the
list. Does anyone have any suggestions?