Thanks Charles;
It is a ToshibaTecra 500CDT, I was in A: from the 98 startup disk then went
to D:. It does boot up...oem disk? not sure what you mean. It boots up says
the pci bus scan and all that was complete..everything comes up good until I

I have done about a half dozen clean installs on different
machines over the past several months.  The problem is
that all of the machines have a 60 second hesitation
problem that occurs randomly and not very often.  It

Last week I fooled with my LinkSys LNE100 network card. Now WIN98 (1st
edition) boots very slow. It stays on the blank desktop for over 1 1/2
minutes, then the icons start to load. I reinstalled the network card
drivers several times, did updated NAV scans, spyware checks etc. A ...

I found it necessary to reinstall Windows 98, then discovered that I
had lost the product key. Is there any legal way around this, or am I
stuck? Thanks.

Please help me....I just formatted my laptop so I could re-install the 98 SE,
as there was too much garbage in my system. When I got to the D: and entered
Setup....it told setup cannnot be run in DOS mode??? Can someone please tell
me how to get it so I can install the system ...

Hello - I'm getting emails and browsing using Avant, but if I open up a DOS
window and to ping www.ibm.com, I get Timeout messages.  I'm not sure this
is the problem, but I have a firewall, Tiny Personal Firewall, but I do not
know what setting is causing ping to not work.  Or if ...

Someone told me that the Microsoft website has a free upgrade available for
download from plain Win 98 to Win 98SE.  Is this true?  If so, could someone
please provide me with a link?
TIA

To all,
MY question is does anyone know which files and folders I have to save to be
able to restore my OS from a cloned disk.  I have a w98 CD and  W98se
installed  on my C: drive and backed  up the entire disk to my F: drive.  If

I have a generic computer running windows 98. What command will tell me what
processor and speed I have in the computer?

With limited RAM at present (64MB's), I'm working hard to keep up with a
selection of fault messages and reboots, and in the last few days, Dr Watson
is reporting:-
"Windows User-interface core component attempted to access memory that does

Running windows 98 SE.
On startup internet connections show "always dial a connection" if I alter
it to "never dial a connection" it is ok but on startup it reverts to
"always dial a connection" and yes I do click the "apply button"