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Hi, - Running Win 98 S/E. - I have lots of folders with pics in and was able to open a folder, highlight a pic and it would give me a little preview to the left before deciding if its the one you want to open or not. Yesterday, I upgraded from impact 5 to 7 and now it don't give me the preview...

Hi. - - I was asked to partition a friend’s hard drive. I did everything necessary to create a primary dos partition at 85% and the extended partition of 15%. Reformatted both drives (C and D). – Then rebooted. At the “A” prompt I typed E: and hit enter. Got the “E” prompt okay and then...

Hi. - - I was asked to partition a friend’s hard drive. I did everything necessary to create a primary dos partition at 85% and the extended partition of 15%. Reformatted both drives (C and D). – Then rebooted. At the “A” prompt I typed E: and hit enter. Got the “E” prompt okay and then...

Hi - I am on a friends puter and we need to know how to drop monitor resolution from 85 to 75 hertz. Its easy to do in XP but forgotten how to get to the damn thing in Win 98. Mel in the UK

Hi, - I have a friend running windows 98 SE and everytime he uses his web cam he gets a message "Behind a firewall". Soooooooooooo, he wants to know how to disable his firewall. Sorry I canot tell you much more than that. Any ideas please. Mel in the UK

Hi all, - I don't know if this is the correct forum but will try. I entered my bios an hour a go and set up a password. Now when I try to get back into the bios, it asks for the password of which I enter, then it asks again. I enter it again and then it takes me thro to XP splash screen...

Hi, - I don't know if this is the correct posting for my problem but someone will tell me if it isn't (I hope). I am running AVG anti virus (the free version) and now when I click on it to access the res shield or look for updates, it only stays visible for 2 seconds. It doesn't give me time...

Hi just me again. - - I guess I'm having a bad day!!! I accidently started to install an old scanner driver instead of my up to date one. I realised immediately after hitting set up that I didnt want this so I quit the prog. Now everytime I boot the computer up I get a small window and in the...

Hi, - Booted up yesterday (XP Pro) and went thro all and rather than the screen displaying my desk top it was just black. I noticed one of the neon green lights on the monitor went out but power was still to the monitor. Soooooooooo, decided to reboot in safe mode. No problems this time, my...

Hi - - I just got today an unexpected gift of XP pro full edition. I’m currently running the upgrade of XP Home Edition and commonsense tells me to use “My gift”. - - Question is: What is the best way to go about installing this without losing my files, programs updates etc. The XP pro disc...

Hi, A friend of mine can just about switch a computer on so he has no chance in doing what I did for him. He has win 98 SE, 500 processor, 4 gig hard drive and 64 meg of ram. PC 100. I had a spare strip of 64 meg so inserted it in the other slot. When re-booting I heard a noise like...

Hi all, - I logged onto outlook express this morning to check my e-mails and noticed a one that was sent by microsoft inviting me to download the very latest patch to stop yet another virus. I was JUST ABOUT TO ACTION THIS and thought, "Hey just a mo, Microsoft wouldn't just e-mail me...

Hi, - - I want to do this purely as a learning process. (I have nothing to do and all day to do it in) so I want to convince myself that I can carry this out without any mishaps. I want to have my computer as though I had just purchased it from the supplier. I presently have it set up as...

Some time a go I created a dual boot putting windows 98SE on “C” drive of 20 gig and XP Home on “D” drive of 20 gig. The reason for this was in case I was going to experience all the mishaps with XP that we read about in this forum then at least I could still have my other operating system...

Hi, - As per the subject. Reason being because very soon I will be f disc and reformatting from 2 partitions and going back to a full hard drive with no partition. Ideally, would like to install XP Home and then install the service pack. Where would I find the full download of SP1 if I am...

Hi, - Running XP home on a duel boot. Each time I boot to "D" drive where I have XP installed I get the following message with the arrow pointing to the task bar. The message is saying, - - Devices or applications disabled. Windows has prevented these drivers from loading. Click...

Hi, - I have a duel boot running Win 98SE on "C" drive and XP Home (upgrade) on "D" drive. Both op systems are Fat32 at present. I want to change XP to NTFS but does this mean I will have to reformat "D" drive before I can achieve this?? Any help would be...

Hi - When I log in it indicates that looking for personal settings, hangs for about 20 seconds and then only displays my wallpaper BUT NO ICONS. - I canot even get to the start menu to do a system restore!!! Any suggestions please. I am able to send you this because I have a duel boot. Example...

In my last post, I asked the best way to create a duel boot. I have done this now. (Oh boy, that’s a story in itself) - - Okay, now I have another question cos this is bugging me. Picture the scene. – I created 2 partitions of 50% each. Example drive “C” has 20 gig and drive “D” has 20 gig...

In my last post I asked the best way to create a duel boot. I have done this now. (Oh boy, that’s a story in itself) - - Okay, now I have another question cos this is bugging me. Picture the scene. – I created 2 partitions of 50% each. Example drive “C” has 20 gig and drive “D” has 20 gig. I...