thanks again glee.  
i explained in a reply to "andrew carter" that this little
event actually happened on my mum's computer.  i wrote the
post in first person so as to avoid a bunch of Qs as i had

when I try to open Word, it says error, no application, or
something like that.  I worked on a draft of a report for
hours today and need to get back in to Word.  does anybody
have any helpful tips?

I restarted my 98 program and I've lost my product key to
complete and retrieve my files.

I re-installed windows 98 on my computer to retrieve some
files, but I have misplaced the product key .

I have a problem of the sound stuttering on various .avi files. The .avi files
have mpeg layer 3 sound. Some have ac3 sound.Gspot informs me that quartz.dll is
the codec that is playing the sound. Picture is divx/xvid. I have the Xvid and
Ac3 codecs installed.

I am using Windows 98 and i had a virus when i got rid of
it i think it took a file with it i now get this error
message a lot...windows explorer and other probelms crash
and come up with it

When running, spyware, virus, or even Norton System works,
the screen will hang up after several minutes, but the
program will, after time displays the final screen
indicating the task was complete.  During this the start

When trying to install a Belkin F5D6001 wireless card the
software must be installed prior to the card itself.  When
the disc is run the message   "The file oleaut32.dll is
out of date.  Program requires a newer version"  How do I

About a week ago my computer began to work very slowly
when I noticed there were new programs downloaded on my
PC.  I went to Add/Remove to delete the programs from my
computer.  After deleting all of these programs from my

I'm getting an error message when I attempt to open my MS
Office applications that reads:
A required .DLL file, MSo97.DLL, was not found.
I've read that this is a known problem in Office 97

The CD Writers in the store, e.g., Memorex and Sony, won't
work with W98 1st Ed, which I have on this computer. How
can I obtain an external CD Writer that will work? The
software in the Memorex box was by Nora. I have sent them

the workarounds include locating the environmental
variables and appending that path with the path location
of the mso97.dll file. This applies to Windows 2000, etc.,
but does not apply to Windows 98. Any suggestions?

when booting up computer, i get this mesage:
C:\afterdrk\adw30.386 file is missing...
Any ideas why and how to fix? What is it?
Thanks

For example to see what version of Windows 98
Click Start,Settings,Control Panel,double click System. At
this point nothing occurs.  On Show desktop icons
Microsoft Outlook is not a short cut and I can click it

I downloaded this application several days back. It
appeared to work fine the 2 or 3 times that it was
launched.I tried to launch it again recently. It seemed it
was responding, then its name appeared in the Task Bar and