Does anyone know how to determine which programs are open
and running within Windows 98?
My 2nd older PC is running slowly and I've attempted to
defrag and scan disk cleanup.  However, there are

I have a house-bound friend who calls me whenever he has
probs with his PC. I don't know much, and can't help him
on many items. His prob is that he turns on his Compaq PC
and he gets an err mess. that says, basically, "Windows

doesn't work, error on loading what on my computer

When I open control panel or My Computer, I get error
message Explorer caused STACK FAULT IN KERNEL 32 DLL.
Thank You

My system (98 2nd Ed.) crashed. I re-initialized and
formatted and loaded "Word Perfect," "Compuserve," my
"Hewlett Packard" printer, and a Boy Scout Program,
"TroopMaster." Every thing was working A-Ok for a couple of

This has been happening ever since I installed an hp
photosmart model 7550 printer!!!

Anyone,Glen & Tweak(if you are still out there)
Sorry for the delay in responding.  Was out of town on
emergency for a couple of days.....
Thanks for the info about Swen.  Yup, I got it somewhere.  

just bought an amtron 1.5 mgh, 256 mg ram, 30 gig hdd,
and loaded it with windows 98se. In about 15 min. or
less, it starts acting like it is cacheing memory. I have
checked for conflicts, all seems to be within normal

while shutting down windows i get another box pop up
entitled regbackup. it states you must quit this programme
before u quit windows! any thoughts?

My friend is a shut-in and calls me about computer stuff
that I know little about. His problem is that he has an
err message that says "Windows Protection Error" "YOU NEED
TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER" wHEN HE DOES THIS, IT STILL HAS

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I see another person just posted the same question I had
yesterday...and now I have a few more questions...
Why does it automatically send messages to my email? They
are Microsoft messages. How do I unsubscribe from

I'm getting the following error when trying to re-install
Netzero (which quit working two days ago - Netzero support
says this is a Win98 issue).
<UNKNOWN> caused an exception c0000006H in module

Does anyone know if win 98 will run dual processors and if
so how to get it to use both??

When I boot-up I get an error message..."Cannot
find 'svcinit.exe' (or one of it's components).  Make sure
the path and file name are correct and that all required
libraries are available."