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Been using Win98 SE for years, just about to install XP Pro on my new PC. With Win98 I always used to copy the win98 directory from the install CD on to the HDD, then run setup from the HDD. That way I never needed to insert the Windows install CD when installing new hardware, or adding Windows...

Been using Win98 SE for years, just about to install XP Pro on my new PC. What I want to do is have 3 HDD's, one with the OS, one for applications, and one for data. By default an application usually installs to the 'Program Files' directory on the system drive, and the default save path for...

I am new to networking. I want to learn how to set up a server based network. I already have a peer to peer network with 4 Win2k Pro PC's. I have just installed Win2k Advanced Server on on an Athlon T-Bird 1.1 GHz, with a 20 GB HDD partitioned with a 16.6 GB NTFS primary partition (C:), and a...

Lost functions from context menu! When right clicking a folder the "Sharing..." and "Properties" items on my context menu are still there but they do nothing. When I click them the context menu just dissapears, "Properties" still seems to work for files but not for folders. It's like this on...

I'm an old fossil who has been using win98 SE for years, but I have no experience with 2k Pro. I recently bought a second hand PC with 2k Pro. I created an account for myself as an administrator, but the system automaticly boots into an account for the old user (also an administrator). How can...

OS Windows 98 se, CPU Athlon Thunderbird 1066 MHz, Motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VA, Chipset VIA VT8366(A)/8367 Apollo KT266(A)/KT333, System Memory 256 MB. My PC seems to have caught mad mouse disease, after using the PC for a few minutes moving the mouse seems to cause random events, these...

I am frustrated by the "My Computer" view settings. I want to have "My Computer" open with the display set to "Details" and "Folders". I try using "Like Current Folder" under the View settings, but next time I open it, the view has reverted to...

Using Windows 98 SE. What gives with scanreg.exe? I regularly backup *.cab files in the SYSBCKUP directory, on the theory that I can use scanreg.exe to restore them if needs be. Tonight for the first time I needed to do just that. I renamed one of my backuped cab files to rb000.cab, but it did...

I want to make a batch file that can read the contents of a one line text file into an MS-DOS environment variable. Can anyone tell me how to de this please?

I have a small macro that I have written in MS Word 2000. The macro does a search then types a few characters. I need to put the macro into a loop, until it has searched the whole document. How do I do this? Below is the text of the macro: Sub Macro7() ' ' Macro7 Macro ' Macro recorded...

I want to copy a dialup connection on a Win95 system to the default user profile. I would also like to backup the dialup connection. Can someone tell me how to do this please?

I have an application (Pose4), that looks for and loads files from a predefined path under the directory that the app was installed in. I want to make it load files from a different location, preferably a CDROM drive, there is no way to do this from within the app its self. Is there some way I...

I’m looking for a free utility that will compare two text files and show any differences between them, preferably this would have two windows and display one file in each, it could be either an MS-DOS or Win9X program. Any suggestions?

I am about to do a clean re-install of Win98SE and need to backup the e-mails in the Outlook Express Inbox, but I can’t workout where Outlook Express stores the data. Can anyone give me some information on this?

Does anyone know of a fix to make the Favorites menu in IE5 cascade instead of scroll?

Is it possible to run Windows98 SE from a CD ROM drive? I don’t mean all the time, it just seems it could be handy as a troubleshooting device. I’m thinking that the registry and possibly win.ini and sys would have to be stored on the HDD, so I imagine the one question is: How do you tell...

CPU= Athlon 1GB Motherboard=Gigabyte GA-71IXE4 RAM=128MB PC133 SDRAM Display card=nVIDIA Geforce2 MX (AGP) PSU=300W Power Master KC300 ATX I have just assembled the above new system. The PC fails to boot, no POST beep, and no display. There is power to the M/B because the CPU fan works...

Could someone tell me how to hide a logical drive on a (D:)on a primary HDD. Also I would assign drive D: to the CD ROM and E second HDD partition, is this posable?

OK, I have this problem with a PC I'm trying to fix. Spec: CPU=Cyrex 333. Motherboard= GemLight GMB P57SAX V1, with SiS 5598 chipset, onboard graphics (SiS) and sound (ESS). OS=Win98 SE. Problem: The PC Hangs on the inital screen, and after the text: "SiS True Colour Graphics and...

I am trying to repair a PC (not mine). It hangs in the boot process at the second screen, at the message: "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." It does not go so far as saying “Success”. Very occasionally it will boot into DOS and work OK, or boot as far as the Windows Splash screen. I have...