i deleted the user.pwl file and have gone in to control
panel to be sure the profile stuff is gone. but the stupid
thing keeps asking me for a password when it starts up. it
has my name in the first box and nothing in the second. i

On a KM266 PRO motherboard with AMD Duron processor, using a Avance
Logic Audio driver, my daughter is able to record sound from the
microphone and replay it using MS sound recorder. However, when using
MSN, she cannot hear her friends, nor can they hear her. The other

I AHS A SCRRENSAVER PROGRAM THAT I DOWNLOADED OFF THE NET
AND WHICH SEEME TO BE CAUSING PROBLEMS WITH THE RUNNING
OF OTHER PROGRAMS. I WENT TO THE CONTROL PANEL,
ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS, SELECTED "OCRAWARE" AND REMOVE

I know that somewhere within my windows xp / e machines computer, I have the
ability to somehow connect the two computers so that my xp can fix my win 98
problems.  Does anyone know where I find that again?

I've inherited a "pre-owned" pc and I'm trying to clean it up for my
grandson.
I've noticed that even when it's "idle" the hard drive seems to be working
constantly.

Lately, ScanDisk goes all night and into the following
morning, but never finishes the scan. I have it set to
automatically scan twice a month.It seems to stick in the
one place, even though the little wheel (top left) still

All of a sudden, without making any changes to the way I
log in, I cant access any of my control panels. Whenever I
try to, I get the message 'Access to the specified device,
path or file is denied'.

I have Windows 98SE
I just increased my RAM to 384
I have run virus scans and spyware checker programs (Ad-
aware, Spybot,Cool Web Search when necessary, Spyblaster

Can someone please help? my system locks up completely
each time I try and open either My Computer, or Control
Panel. Each time it happens my only solution is to reboot,
and this problem seems to have a knock on effect in speed

I am stumped on a problem I'm having at a client's office and hoping
someone else may be able to shed some light on the problem.
It is a Win 98 SE machine that was working fine until Friday, then all
of a sudden started running really slow.  I have removed spyware, temp

When I try to shut down my computer I get the following
message:  "A fatal exeception OE has occured at
0028:C02A37A8 in VXD VWIN32(05) 000012D0.  The current
application will be terminated".  Then I have to hit any

I bought an old dell optiplex off ebay and the hard drive
was completly bare. Well i put in some RAM chips from an
old computer that the power supply had gone bad in. well
i put 96MB worth in it and the BIOS says that is what is

My sister has windows 98 and is getting the error message
C:\windows\system\comiaee.dll file missing, I have done
searches on this and she had norton antivirus remove the
file any ideas.

1. Firstly, Is there a GUI way to increase GDI and USER resources?
2. Secondly, if not 1,  is there an ascii character representation file
manipulation way to increase GDI and USER resources?
3. Thirdly, if not 1 or 2, is there possibly a hexadecimal edit of files (by

Is there any way to speed up performance without adding a
new memory card?