I bought a used W98 machine that was on a company network. On the "General"
tab in the System Properties box is the name & company of the original
owner. Where in the registry can I remove or change this info?
Thanks in advance.

Since I replaced my MoBo, I'm experiencing an infuriating
pause, mid-operation, while the IDE HDD LED comes on for
several seconds before priority is returned to the process.
This happens during cut/copy/paste etc of large audio

I have a Dell 866 with 384mb of memory. I can work about
an hour with various apps before I'm down to 30mb free or
so. Closing programs to, say, just Zone Alarm and Explorer
doesn't improve things. So, I've gotten used to doing

Says open GL doest suppoprt this mode, when try to enter
game?

I've been reading all the posts I can find about this common problem
with Windows 98 and the Windows Explorer.
Just try and delete 200 files in a directory using Windows Explorer:
the system "pauses" for about 1 to 2 minutes, then it's ok.

Who can tell me the best resource to help go through and
determine which files can be safely deleted to help
improve computer performance, particularly those files in
the windows directory, registry items, etc.

Whenever I try to install a program I get three errors:
#1: C:\windows\temp\_ins0432._mp file appears to be
corrupt.  Reinstall file, and then try again.  (How do I
reinstall the file??  I don't have a Windows 98 cd. My

Whenever I boot my computer, an explorer window opens at c:\windows
How can I stop this? Using msconfig I have looked for an entry invoking explore
at startup and found none. I also looked in the registry 'run' entries and found nothing
TIA

I need to get the "tweak UI" for win98SE. Plse advise
source for downloading same. Tks. Errol

    I have lost all volume and do not know where to go or
what to do please can some one Help?

this is an ongoing problem my computer keeps locking up
and when I do clt alt del it comes up and either tells me
that the wndupdater or the msgsrv32 is not responding,
this always leads to a shut down.  HELP

Using windows 98.  Cursor begins to jump all over the
screen when you move the mouse.  It doesn't follow
properly.

Companion exe' cannot be found Help!!!

File or folder'Companion exe'cannot be found. How do I
find this ?

Some times during working on PC, an error
comes "Explorer.exe" as i click on oK some of My services
get stop.
To rectify it i hav to install a fresh copy of Win 98.