I had put a cd into my cd player and now I can't get it to open and take
the cd out. I rebooted and checked my computer and even the cd icon
driver is not shown. Sometimes in the past I was able to e ject the cd
via the driver icon. It is possible that in my haste to put the cd ...

Ever since I installed an external CD/DVD drive, my PC takes an age to boot,
appearing to hang for a couple of minutes before springing into life. If I
disconnect the drive it boots at normal speed again. Is there any way around
this?

I tried posting this in another section of Win 98 but no help.
Please help me if you have any suggestions
My wife has a P2, running Win 98 SE, with 458MB of RAM. She  uses a
Lexmark 6250 series All in One Printer/Copier/Scanner for emailing

After my screensaver has been running for a while, and when I move my mouse
to "wake up" my computer, a button remains on my taskbar that is very
annoying. I had this problem before, but do not remember how I made it stop
appearing. I know it doesn't have to do with the specific ...

I can only restart my computer normally when unplugging both of my IDE
Controllers from the mother board. I can start up in safemode. How do I fix
this so I can reboot normally with both controllers plugged in?

My Computers Resources Drop To 0% & Then It Goes To The Blue Screen & I Have
To Restart, Sometimes It Freezes & I Have To Use The Shut Down Button. My
Second Problem Is That  For Almost  Every  Window I Open A Window Saying,
"This Program Has Performed An Illegal Search & Well Shut ...

My Computer Resources Drop All The Way To 0% & Either Freezes Or Goes To A
Blue Screen & I Only Have Like 4 to 5 Windows Or Less. Also No Matter What
Program I Open It always Shows A Message That Say That The Program Has
Performed An Illegal Search & Will Shut Down Sometimes It ...

I've just re-installed Win98SE onto a new hard disk and done all the
Microsoft updates.
In Windows Explorer, right hand file window is set to "Detail" view but I no
longer get a column showing the file attributes (a, h, r, etc).

I'm trying to copy about 20GB of files from one physical hard drive to
another.  Many of the files are music files.  Both hard drives have DMA
enabled.  Virtual memory is set for Windows to manage it.  The computer has
1GB of physical memory installed.  MaxFileCache is set to ...

Is it my imagination or is my PC loading software considerably faster than
it was? Yesterday, mid-afternoon in UK, McAfee downloaded an update, which
wasn't its normal weekly update and ever since then start-up etc just flies
through. So fast in fact that I checked to see if the AVG ...

Windows 98SE limits?
What is the limit on the size of hard drive?
What is the maximum size of ram that 98SE can use?
Thanks Johnny

Win98SE
I am thinking that there is an fkey or other key sequence to minimize the
current window.
Anyone know what that key is offhand?

When I start my pc and pressing F8 I can get into the command prompt.
But after a while  the system hangs ,mostly when I use (to open files)  the
dos editor "edit" or after writing some commands  (they don't appear on the
sceen) my

I recently installed another hd into my system which made it 3 hd's and
1 cd rom. Primary ide master, primary slave and Secondary master and cd
slave. All went well upon post...see all devices there and in windows
explorer. I have XP. After shutting down the system for a few ...

If your have a wireless router located near the desktop computer, you
can connect the computer to the router through a wired connection,
without the need for a wireless adapter.>>>
that is how i'm using it now, but the wireless would give me the chance to move my laptop in more ...