Hi,
I'm trying to setup a Dell Optiplex GX520, to multi-boot Windows98, 2000, XP
pro. I found the knowledgebase entry on microsoft's website, for setting this
up. I made 3 partitions. First one is FAT32, and the other two are NTFS. When

by mistaken i change excel properties to notepad.
by right clicking on it i am able to open it with this option:open
using microsoft excel for windows
but the icon displayed for excel sheet is same as that for notepad. so

I have a win98se machine, ASUS P5A-B motherboard, 450mhz K6-2 chip, 107
PCI/AGP Blade vid card,  and this problem has been there since first
building this box.  It seems I did a registry hack to reverse the diplay
setting, but now can't remember exactly what I was told so many ...

Greetings;
My brother has a Gateway computer many years old which has win98 installed
and is not capable of USB 2.0 for an external backup disk.
I have a win98se CD. Am I able to upgrade his machine to win98se from this

In folder right-click mouse, will popup a menu.
I dont know why today lose(miss) two import item in popup menu.
a, "send to--> desktop shortcut" item is lose.
b. "new --> folder, text file, ......" item is lose.

Is it possible to copy psapi.dll from some XP machine, to my win98 system
directory and gain support which usually missed in win98?
Thanks
Gimi

I hope somebody can help, I have an old Compaq laptop that is ready to die,
but I need to grab a few files from it.  Everytime I try to boot, it drops
into Registry Checker, tells me a good registry has been restored, and asks
for restart, but on restart it keeps dropping back ...

Hi - My internal floppy drive failed so I replaced it with an external drive
(USB)
I changed my BIOS to have "ATAPI CD-ROM Drive" as my first boot selection.
I have my original start-up floppy that I got with my Win.98SE and know I

I have an older machine, on my modest 2 machine network, that I use
for utility work & longer computer-intensive tasks. Not
mission-critical, but I sure hate to have it off-line.
It's W98 (not SE) & has been running fine, for what it does. Was an

how do I upgrade my BIOS so I can use larger hard drives?

I installed IE6 on top of the existing IE 5.5 installation in a W98SE
system in one of my computers.  Now, all Internet accessibility via my
DSL account with the computer involved has become disrupted.
My guess is that a driver somehow got messed up but I would appreciate a

I just added Win98SE to my Win2k system in a dual boot configuration. Win2k
still works which is good since that is my primary system. The basic Win98SE
works except for the network. During installation I got the usual "Unknown
Device" errors, most of which were fixed when I ...

I've got the same problem as Greg, exactly the same. And sorry, but I
was unable to find a suitable solution from the hints and links that
were suggested in the reply. Moreover, as that topic seems to be
closed, I hope someone will provide me a better answer... need it!

I just setup a old computer in a new computer tower. But when i  went to
boot it up it saids it fail and i don't know why. All the pins are ok when i
took a look at them. I try three other floppy drives and it said the same
thing. Is it the cable to the floppy or could it be the ...

Does anyone know why autoexec.bat does not execute when window 98 start up?
I have added a few to clean the temp internet folder, such as
DELTREE /y C:\CWIN98\tempor~1
but when window starts and I check this folder, and still find cookie there.