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Until a couple of months ago, I had a really good computer, but it broke down and due to an important deadline approaching, I needed to acquire another one immediately. I bought one in an auction and picked it up the next day. (Actually, the seller arranged to meet me at his car, and we...

A week or so ago I downloaded a file mkwact097b1.exe and ran it to install an application called "MKW Audio Compression Toolkit." Straight away I decided that I did not want this particular application installed on my system, so I sought to remove it. Ufortunately, it did not appear in...

I have taken an Athlon XP 3000+ (333Mhz) with Thermaltake Volcano 10 heatsink and fan off a Gigabyte GA-7VA motherboard intending to attach it permanently to a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 Rev 1.0 motherboard. The interface surfaces were covered in a white paste, which I cleaned off. The parts were...

I have a very sick computer, and recently bought a PCI/ISA POST (Power On Self Status) code diagnostic card. Symptoms: computer runs extremely slowly; windows and applications continually stop responding, sometimes temporarily, often permanently. Internet browser (IE 6.0) is a waste of time...

I want to uninstall Service Pack 1 from my computer. When I click "Remove" in Add or Remove Programs, there is a dialog in which I confirm that I wish to remove Service Pack 1 and restore my previous configuration. After I do that, there another dialog entitled, "Service Pack 1", which starts...

I'm running Windows XP Pro on a standalone computer and have been trying to clear out my C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Local Settings\Temp folder but I have a problem with Perflib_Perfdataxxx.dat files. Some I can delete, but there is always one that is locked. I located a relevant...

Both my hard discs are nearly full, and I want to replace the smaller one, which has 37GB of data. Is there any way to transfer the data to the new drive without backing it all up first? (I'm running Win98 SE and I'll upgrade to XP Pro when the new hard disc is installed). "640K ought to be...

I have a P166 running Windows 98 SE. When I cold boot the machine after it has been off for several hours, the startup sequence stops at a DOS screen with a couple of statements: "Floppy Disc(s) Fail (C0)", and "Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter SETUP". When I press F1 the...

I have a problem and a question. First my situation. I have a P166 with 32MG RAM and a 2GB hard drive, and I have done a clean install of Windows98. I wanted to put the swap file on its own partition at the beginning of the drive, and have separate partitions for software and data. I started by...

I have a PC with one hard disc, and I have done a reformat and clean install of Windows 98 SE. I wanted three partitions, with my swap file on its own partition at the beginning of the disc, so I created three primary partitions and hid the first one, which has a size of 50MB. I then installed...

I am planning to do a format and reinstall of Windows 98 SE on a Pentium 166. The reason I am doing this is that an error occurred in Explorer.exe after I upgraded IE 4.0 to IE 5.5, and now Windows will not load. My problem is that when I try to boot the PC from the boot disc that I created, the...

Some time ago, an event occurred (probably related to a Windows 98 reinstallation), which changed the current system year to 2019. I didn't notice the error for a week or two, during which I accumulated many email and Microsoft Office documents, all with incorrect dates associated. This caused a...

I have imported a large number of fonts to my Windows\Fonts folder. I needed to reinstall Win98 so among other things I backed up the Fonts folder to a different drive. Afterwards, when I tried to copy the backup folder into the new Windows folder, I ran into problems. As soon as it had started...

I've just reinstalled Win98 and both during Windows setup and since I've been plagued by this error message: Grpconv This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor. [Close] [Details>>] GRPCONV caused an invalid page...

Every so often, maybe 30 min, maybe 2 hrs, my PC spontaneously restarts. I had a hardware upgrade a couple of weeks ago, and I've had many problems getting programs to work properly since then, but this one has only been happening in the last two or three days. I can't find anything on the...

When I recently reinstalled Win98, Outlook Express started afresh with empty default folders and the only messages there now are ones I received since the reinstall. I know where the .dbx folders are that contain the old messages, but how can I open them in Outlook Express?

I've done a reinstall of Win98 and now I can't use my soundcard (Soundblaster Live). I get this error message: *New Hardware Found* The file '2gmgsmt.sf2' on Creative CD-ROM cannot be found. Insert Creative CD-ROM in the selected drive, and click OK. Reinstalling the Soundblaster Live software...

Recently I have had a problem with my PC that has prevented me from accessing the Internet. Luckily I have another PC, an old Pentium, that I have turned to so that I can operate my email and also search the net to find some clues to help fix my PC. I have had the Pentium for a couple of years...

I downloaded a program in the form of a compressed file. This unpacked to a cue file and a bin file. I was hoping for an exe file that I could install. The little iformation I have been able to glean on this topic suggests that these files must be burnt to a CD and that the best application to...

This is just a simple (I presume) formatting question. My report is too wide and each page extends into the next, so that each odd page has a narrow band down the left side from the previous page. I've tried dragging in the side in Design View and also setting the Width property but without success.