All of a sudden my applications "icons" aren't showing on
my taskbar.  They're showing on the desktop.  Is there a
setting I can change to get my taskbar back so when I load
and/or reduce an application it is displayed on the

I know this may sound exceedingly petty to complain; I bitterly hate that
the windows address book insists that I, a single business owner, maintain a
"personal" and a "shared" contacts folder. Generally speaking, when I add a
contact, without fail, it goes in the other one. I have ...

I'm trying to set up a computer for a hispanic friend.  A
WIN98 HP was donatd to him with the initial software.  I
did a fresh install from the system restore cd's. now I'd
like to have it show the menus and etc in spanish.  is

Trying to upgrade 95 to 98. Setup can't find occache.dll
file to extract. Error message says to rerun set up if it
can't find the file. Any ideas?

Over the last week I have experienced problems starting my
computer.
Everything appears to be booting up normally but when it
gets to the desktop screen and just before the icons

A colleague of mine told me that you can do a re-
installation of Windows 98 over your existing 98 OS
without having it replace existing files/folders on your
system. Is this valid? I thought that if you did any re-

I recently replaced an old CD-rom with a new CD-RW drive
in my PII-400 running WIN98SE (unit has 2 HD + 128mg RAM)
The PC did not "detect new hardware" after installing
however the RW drive functioned fine with sound and drive

I have been attempting a clean 98se install on a Mag
tinynote/ NEC 120lt. There is no current OS on the
computer. It would normally startup with a "invalid
system disk" error message. I have tried multiple

i attemped to install w98se on my giga-byte nforce2 mobo
(GA-7n 400pro)and it refuses to install.no matter what i do
(in bios,such as slowing things down)it won't even get to
the installing file stage.HELP!!!!!!

I have inherited a pc. The setting for explorer seem to be
customized (messed up!). I can only see the Attributes
column in the details view. I have tried restore defaults
within Tools/Folder Option/View but does not reset it. Is

If I enter a url in Internet Explorer which is incorrect or cannot be
completed, I'm redirected to search.msn.com which offers to "help".
I hate this .... I'd rather get the standard error message with the
url I entered intact in the address bar so that I can edit it.

At startup, shut down and connecting the dial up network I
get an error: "C:\windows\WINRUNwinrun.EXE" cannot be
found.  AT reinstallation of Windows 98 an additional
error "RUNDLL32" not found. If you tell me what the hell

How do you load cdrom driver from a win 98 bootdisk on a
laptop with inter-changable cdrom & floppy drives that
use the same bay? New install on a newly partition &
formatted fat32 disk. I can't get a win dir either?

I recently had a problem with my m/c wicj is now largely
fixed, but two problems still persist.
1) when I start up my system cannot find a device refered
to in the registary or ini files calledc;\win\sys\VMM32,

Had problem-probably a memory problem and system will now
only boot into SAFE MODE. In safe mode the CD drive now is
not accesible . It is physically OK (floppy DOS boot disk
accesses it OK).