I was a windows 98 pluss user. my hard drive crashed and
was given by my son windows 2000 witch I do not like. how
can I download window 98 of the net. the whole shubang.
and burn it on disk in case i get a really nasty virous.

hopefully someone can help me. i use to know how to do
this but i have forgotten.  i am wanting to back date my
computer.  i don't remember what i did and i had it wrote
down but that was a few years back.  i think i was in the

        lately i am getting the error "EXPLORER has
caused an illegal operation" on startup.Clicking details
yeilds the address 017f:00401f31 as the culprit location
 can someone send a solution

History of this system is not well known (I'm fixing it for a
coworker).
His problem was that Internet Explorer won't load.  When I try to
reinstall, uninstall, or do anything with Windows Installer, it claims

 When I run msconfig. from the run command nothing comes
up. Nor if I try to run it from the system information. As
a tool.

Can you tell me how to get rid of the Windows 98 password
window thats displays on boot up? It doesn't even work
with a password- you just hit cancel-and you're in! But
when I start up it hinders my boot-up becuase I have to

my computer has had this problem since i received it...it
will lock up now and then on a blue screen i get this
message. "a fatal exception has occurred at 0028:C0059773
in VXD VMCPD (01) +00000213. the current appliacation will

I have a small non-microsoft program and it's been working
fine for a long time. Untill I started Uninstalling some
things I didn't need. Untill a couple days ago, everytime
I double Click on the icon, an error message pops up and

 When I run msconfig. from the run command nothing comes
up. Nor if I try to run it from the system information. As
a tool.

Does anyone know how to upgrade windows 98 2nd edition to
allow video cam corder file transfers through usb
connection?

Greetings all,
   Following a bad virus attack, we had to wipe and reformat the hard
drive. Re-installation of the OEM Windows 98SE from disc worked fine.
Re-installation of the drivers (for video, sound, modem & printer) from the

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 8:04:44 PM, on 4/18/04
Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Explorer: this program performed an illegal operation and
will be shut down. Explorer caused an invalid page fault
in Kernel32.dll at 0167:bffc06af
If problem persists,contact program vendor.

If I go to System Information, then- Internet Explorer,
Cache, List of objects, how do I get rid of 2 entries?  
List says they are damaged, and they are part of a trojan.

When i open the control panel -> system -> devices,
i see only the word "computer" and no other devices !!!
How can resolve this ?