I have an intermittant problem under WIN98SE that SEEMS to be due to
programs not closing completely (I'm not sure, though).  When it
happens, it is most often my Mozilla 1.5 browser... but it has happened
with other programs.

i installed win98se on a 2nd hard drive for a dualboot (first xp) i had to
skip MANY "cant find drivers for" (i disconnected xp drive just to make sure
nothing in it was touched) now that i think about it, i guess i could have
had setup look in it for drivers, but i'm still a ...

One of my friends has a Pentium I 133MHz machine with a 1.2 Gigs Hard disk
and 32 MB RAM. In his Cmos setup screen, the id for primary master and slave
is none. He can't install win98, when he hits setup from this bootable disk
it says File system is HPFS or NTFS. I can't use ...

Mikhail, all three come back as having 8192 bytes per allocation unit.
Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:

I recently got a new XP, and bought the network equipment to go with it...
My old 98 (which I am now going to give to my brother) worked OK. I
networked them, then transferred all my old files into the new computer.
My next step was to format the old computer, and put Win98SE on ...

My old PC running W98SE is in a sorry state - I suspect "rogue"
installer progams have overwritten or deleted system files and so on
because several things no longer work properly (notably multimedia).
System File Checker isn't showing anything obvious although, to be

Blue screen said that it was low on memory. I deleted some files and then did
a defrag and scandisk. My partner started to surf the internet without
restarting it (i.e no anti-virus or firewall or anything) While he was on
there, the DOS  screen came up saying 'INVALID SYSTEM ...

This machine is running Windows 98 SE. I have run into a strange
occurrence. If I go into MSDOS mode even once, when I select
"shutdown", the machine would then restart instead of shutting down.
If I don't enter MSDOS mode, then the machine shuts down accordingly.

Howdy! I've been running Win98 and decided to upgrade to Win98SE, but There
was a mixup and bought a full installation version of 98SE.  I tried running
it anyways, but the prompts tell me I must have an upgrade since I already
have 98 running on it.  I was wondering if there was ...

When I shut down my system, sometimes it restarts instead of shuting
down. There is no specific pattern to this, sometimes it does,
sometimes not. Does anybody know why this happens?

I have a PC with AMD K7 processor, 512MB RAM and 2 hard disks. I have XP
Professional SP2 on my C: drive, but have some older software that won't run
with XP. I have set up a partition on the other disk (F:) and formatted it
FAT32. C: is my default drive and the one my PC boots ...

I notice I have duplicate names in the DIRECTIORY along with the file names.
Is there any way to delete these duplicates??

Have I gone stark raving mad?!
took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on
secondary(single drive)
copied "xyz" from C: on computer A

A relative downloaded some type of virus on the PC that would not let
Explorer operate.  Therefore I could not run control panel, open up my
computer, etc.  That person then deleted some files that they believed were
the cause, and did this by the date of the corruption.  ...

I was receiving "this program has performed illegal operation" errors and
could not run any internet applications.  I attempted to use the steps listed
in Article ID : 298343 to repair the comctl32.dll file but it seems the file
was removed but then was not extracted (was given ...