My computer hangs when it is started. all i get is a dark screen with
garbage all over it and then it freezes.
Whjat can i do to get around this delema
Tim.

When I shut down my computer and power it back on, the
windows initialization stops and I get the following
messag in a box on the screen:
Windows did not detect a mouse attached to the computer.

I have an athlon 2000+ with 503mb? ram (I think). the
problem i am having is that when i print and try to carry
on using programmes, the programmes run very slowly.
Its as if all the juice is being used to fuel the printer

When on the Internet my system hangs for minutes at a time.
Is there an easy cure for this?
I am running Win98 on a 2GHz machine with 312 MB memory
and AMD Athlone processor.

is there a new virus because my computer, my aunties
computer and my whole schools network is down?

When I try to open any Control Panel icons, I get the
error message "Access to the specified device, path, or
file is denied.
Also, when I right click on any icon on the desktop, I get

After downloading critical updates for Explorer and
Windows 98, I now constantly get these two error messages
even when the system is just sitting idle. It causes me
to lose the Internet or closes a program if I close the

when I bring up a troublshooter I get the question screen,
click on a symptom dot the hit next and all I get is a
blank page. I reinstalled windows and it does not matter
which troubleshooter I use they all do the same

Would appreciate help with fixing a fatal exception error
0E at 0028:C0005338 in VXD(01)+00004338. thanks

I was loading a program and the computer locked up. I get
a message "load error hit any key to reboot" but it
remains at that pointe. I would like to get into the safe
mode to correct the problem. Any ideas

I have saved pictures to my hard drive which I now can't
view because I get an error mesage saying "cannot find
.exe to see a jpeg picture.   How can I fix this?

Why would System Properties/ Performance box show "Virtual
Memory" being disabled? It is now set for windows to
manage the size of virtual memory. I am having memory
problems with error box showing "not enough memory" at

My machine is set to "let windows manage my virtual
memory". When you check out virtual memory status under
the performance tab though it says that virtual memory is
Disabled. Why is this? I have 2 sticks of 512 mb ram

Hay,
I have a compaq D530S computer with OS/win98se and a cdrom
player. Here come's my question. How can i disable the
cdrom player in the registry. I can't disable the cdrom

iam a student in need of assistance, when i turn my
assigned computer at school on its give me an error that
one of my mutltimedia devices is not present but the real
problem is a loaded win 98 as assigned and it is telling