Contracted a virus or worm. Installed a virus program. One
of the corrupted files was in Notepad.exe. After the
program ran and cleaned or healed corruptions it can no
longer find the Notepad.exe file.  My 98 Windows disk is

Running win 98 2nd edition
Runs really slow even though loads of hard disk space.
Some windows do not open or close properly
win386.swp file is 50mb, can this bea problem ?

Can anyone tell me how to change the default folder when I
start up windows explorer. It goes to my start up folder,
I would like to alter this to my documents but can't for
the life of me find out how...what am I missing?

I have had my PC since 98, and it has served me well
until about a year or so ago. I opted to qownload an
upgrade to win98, which took for ever ( iam still on
56kbs) all seemed ok until I restarted the next day. the

Is it possible to download and install Windows 98 Second
Edition over the top of Windows 98?
Thanks!

please help me.I had installed additional fonts but
unfortunately it affects my other application. Example,I
opened business card maker but I cannot understand some
text because the fonts become boxes. Please help.

After doing some system mainentance (Norton Utilities),
all of a sudden whenever I click on any file with the
type "Application," my PC does NOT launch the application
but comes back with the "Program Not Found" Window,

Why doesn't Win98 recognize my headset?  The
microphone/headset works fine with WinXp machine.
Help!!!

I've got a friend running Win98SE, on a Compaq 333MHz, with 128Mb of RAM.
When he copies something from the internet and tries to paste into a word
processor (Works 4.5, to be precise) it tells him the memory is full.

Same friend, Win98SE on Compaq 333 MHz, 128Mb RAM, HP722C printer, anytime
he prints to it, it gives an error message, says it must shut down...when
you press enter it then goes on, finishes print job, and everything is
normal.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling printer, no ...

does anyone know how to change the sound effects for when
windows starts up, shuts down, and for opening and closing
programs?

From View in My Computer, I recently changed the file type
of my *.mov (Movie) files from QuickTIME to RealOne
Player.  When I realized that this is not what I wanted, I
went back and changed these *.mov file types to use the

I've attempted to check if I have the latest upgrades for my Windows operating system.  I go to Microsoft Windows Update site, click on the green arrow to scan for updates and then the screen changes and shows a % sign showing the progress but on my machine it sits @ 0% and will ...

My red border in Excel will not work.

Today, after working all day, I tried getting into my Word
Program (part of Office 97), but I would get as far as the
Word billboard and it freezes. When I press Ctrl-Alt-
Delete the prompt comes up with "insufficient memory."