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  1. Handy1

    Trouble recognising Network Hardware after reformat

    I finaly gave up dealing with Win 8 and reformatted my Dell laptop. After reinstalling Vista I can't go online anymore. I get the message "Not detection network hardware" and " No Wireless Network Adapter". I had no problems before the change. Could it just be coincidence that my wireless...
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    Western Digital 1 Tera External HD

    My wife got me a 1 terabite harddrive for Christmas A year ago. After less than 6 months it died taking a lot of my files with it. Upon internal examination, it would appear that the onboard power supply failed. Burn marks evident on the pc board. As Western says component parts are...
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    reinstall trouble / Network Hardware

    I finaly gave up dealing with Win 8 and reformatted my Dell laptop. After reinstalling Vista I can't go online anymore. I get the message "Not detection network hardware" and " No Wireless Network Adapter". I had no problems before the change. Could it just be coincidence that my wireless...
  4. Handy1

    XP goes blank on start up.

    I have a Dell CPi D300XT computer with P2 and 6.49gig IBM hard drive. When you boot, Windows XP starts to load, then the monitor goes blank and nothing else happens. At this point I loose Keyboard and mouse function. I can hear the drive spinning away but nothing on the screen. I know the cause...
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    Total RAM ?

    I recently upgraded the Bios on my Gateway PC. The PC has a Celeron "A" 333MHz chip. I want to max out the RAM but don't know how much the new bios will support. Right now it has 128 MB of PC100 168 Pin Memory installed in 1 of 2 slots. The bios I am using now are AMI OAAKW040 dated 7/15/95. I...
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    Re-installing Win 98 over win 98 se

    I know, why would I?. Well, I have 2 machines side by each. 1 has 98 the other 98SE. The 1 with 2nd had the install program on the c drive (no cd). I tried to connect the 2 machines, via direct connect to move the Win98se file over to the other machine prior to reformatting, without success. I...
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    daosearch / web accelerator with adds

    I'm looking at my sons computer to try to rid it of the nasties while he's away in jolly old England. He must have loaded the accelerator program at some point and who knows where this daosearch thing comes from. I've tried my old standbys, Spybot, ad-aware etc.. to no avail. How can I clean...
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    2nd hard drive

    I'm running W98 on an old Gateway 333mz machine. I recently got my hands on a used 4 gb Hdrive and thought I'd add it to my setup. It went in fine. I set the system config to match the new slave drive but when I boot it seems to see the drive but it's not assigning it a drive leter. The new...
  9. Handy1

    jigallo infestation

    I have been infected with the Jigallo whatever. I seem to have stopped it from calling out (it actually installed its own dial out connection, "jigallo*US") and giving me a popup window selling, oddly enough, tools to remove spy / mal ware. It was also placing an icon on the desktop which...
  10. Handy1

    Desktop "~" Icon

    I just got done scrubbing my hard drive an am in the proscess of re-installing programs onto my Windows 98 system. As soon as I installed my Office 2000, an old "friend" was back!! An icon on my Desktop named simply ~. When I try to open it I get the "Open with" box. The first iten in the list...
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    trouble re installing

    I have reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled 98. For some reason it then failed to recognize my modem. I got a new driver from the manufacturer and it seems ok but I can't get to windows update and am recieving many many script error messages. Have I missed a step somewhere? I did this once...
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    Windows 98, Version?

    I picked up an older machine at a show. It's running windows 98 but which edition, the original or second. It seems pretty basic, I know, but where do I look for the this info? Will the Version # tell me which edition I have? Is there a cut off # between 1st and 2nd editions? I even have two OEM...

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