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The jr college where I'm interning has a win 2k machine where the start menu freezes for a sec, then disappears. It's a Dell, 700 mhz Pentium, 256 mb Ram. When the start>programs is clicked if the user is real fast with the mouse they are able to open a program, but if they take just a few...

I've edited my autoexec.bat file to delete the contents of the index.dat files. It works fine, my question is: Is deleting the contents of the win386.swp file beneficial? I realize this is my swap file for virtual memory, but I was under the impression that it didn't store data in it, that it...

My parents Win 98 SE crashed and I installed it, and they lost all their contacts from the Outlook Express 6.0 address book. I found an old e-mail they sent me that contains all the addresses of their contacts and was wondering if there is a way to add the contacts back without having to...

I'm running Windows ME and have decided to get a firewall after spending numerous hours restoring my homepage and deleting files. I have a Compaq Pressario, 1 gig processor, and 26 gb's of freespace on my drive. I would appreciate it if someone could recommend a free firewall thats worked well...

I downloaded Adobe Reader 6.0 and Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 starter edition Tue. 22nd and I get an error ACRORD32 has caused an error in ACRORD.EXE ACRORD will now close, when I try to run the program. I also got this error on startup, then I got the blue screen of death OE:018F:BFF8E64B. After...

I fdisked, partioned, formatted a 10 gig drive and installed Windows 98 SE upgrade, everything went fine until I tried to reinstall the modem, I didn't have a driver. Since it was an old rockwell modem, I bought a new one today, a US Robotics. I installed the modem, driver. Then I went to...

I'm reinstalling Windows 98 SE and having problems installing the Rockwell HCF 56k Data Fax RTAD PCI Modem. According to the Quick Installation Guide AM56HCF this is supposed to be a PnP, but Windows doesn't recognize it. I tried to install it using the AM56HCF floppy by double clicking the...

My parents Windows 98 SE will not load windows. I get a dos prompt that says Drive not ready Insert BOOT diskette in A: Press any key when ready. They don't have a boot or startup disk. I tried downloading one from the internet from http://techtips4u.com/downloads/#Win_98se but when I try to use...

After making some registry changes manually, running ad-aware 6.0 and Norton 2004,and deleting the temp folder, the virus scan did not pick detect the file it had earlier C:\Windows\System\appsys.exe. This is really puzzling, but the computer appears to be working fine, at least for a few boots.

I have Windows ME on a Compaq Presario with 1 gig procesor, 128 mb memory. My browser's been hi-jacked by Search For, it reminds me of coolsearch. I have ad-aware 6.0 which deletes the registry changes and for a few boots eveyrthing is fine, then Search For comes back. When i run Norton...