my friend has a really old ( doesnt have cd-rom) laptop
that he screwed up. He now wants to reinstall it. To do
this, he bough a regular Win98 setup disk. After that, he
realized that his laptop only has a floppy drive. Is there

i have had my computer for 3 years and have since upgraded
it multiple times. ( starting with 350mgz P2 to 1.73Ghz
Athlon 2100+) i have however never changed my OS. I have
for aslong as i remmember always tried to scandisk and

When I start my computer, I get the following error
message (before windows 98 is loaded):  While initializing
device VKD.
I tried to disconnect and reconnect the keyboard and I

I'm running Windows 98 and picked up a virus that
corrupted my msconfd.dll file in my windows\system
directory.  I was unable to repair the file so now I need
to get a new one somewhere.  I tried reinstalling Windows

I am not able to defrag (which I have done before).  I
have closed all running programs and have no screensaver
running.   I have even tried through Maintinance Wizard
and it did the first 2 steps and when it got to the defrag

I keep getting a 'EXPLORER' pop up that says:
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will
be shut down.
 If the problem persists, contact the program vendor."

I recently installed a virus scanner from the internet and
found that it had erased a file called "pcnm" file which
aparently opened "Application" files and a message box
comes up sayin that windows cannot locate it, what should

 I've just installed a chinese writing pad, but my windows can't read
chinese, so I open the njstar which can read chinese. But then it turns into
blue screen, and say the program has to be terminated due to some illegal
operation. I guess it's software conflict, but what can I do ...

because win98 is unable to maintain over 512mb of memory,
every one who has over that amount has to edit system.ini,
restricting windows to use over 512mb. What happens to the
extra memory? Are any other windows programs or games able

C:\> SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 VMM3S.VXD IS REQUIRED TO
RUN WINDOWS??

I am trying to reinstall windows 98 and keep getting this
error...says there is virus detection software running
but there isnt.....any ideas?

I am tryin gto load my son's computer game he got for
christmas. It loads fine but when you go to run it, I get
and error stating "A fatal exception 0E has occured at
0028:c902281E in VDX zzzzzzzz(01) + 0000234E. Can anyone

I am going to resume teaching math (12th year ie last year
of high school : matric. in South Africa) but have no
experience of making use of a computer for that purpose.
What advice can you offer?

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP ME!  MY COMPUTER WILL NOT LOAD UP
AT ALL.  I GET THE BLACK INITIAL SCREEN WITH BITS OF
INFORMATION, THEN A MESSAGE "WHILE INITIALISING DEVICE UKD
WINDOWS PROTECTION ERROR.  YOU NEED TO START YOUR

recently I started getting this error messages
error loading msconfd
error loading ctrlpan.dll
does anyone know of a fix?