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MS Windows 98 operating system that was released for PC computers in 1998
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Sarfraj.alamHow to dual boot Win 98 and XP: 1. Create two partitions in your hard drive. 2. First install Windows 98. 3. After this, insert...
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Using a Windows Start-Up Disk Here are opinions and answers from WikiAnswers Contributors: Find out more from the readme.txt...
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To reformat your hand drive using Win98 you need a Win98 boot floppy with reformat and fdisk options on it. To get started,...
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AnswerIf you installed Windows XP in this method you can downgrade. That is, if you upgraded Windows XP from Windows 98 SE means...
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On some motherboards, when the CPU temperature gets too high, it will automatically reboot the system in hopes of cooling the...
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Answerwindows is a plug & play OS so every time you add a new device it will give you a new hardware found prompt.to prevent...
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in processess tab click on the outlook process and clikc 'end process' button.
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To answer your question, you can take off applications that you want to keep but you must have a good means of storing that...
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You can not convert a FAT 32 drive to NTFS in windows 98 because windows 98 does not support it. You can however mount an...
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The best way for your PC to recognize the CD-Rom drive is use a boot or Start up floppy. Make 1 from any Windows 98 based PC. Go...
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Answerfirst you need to select the folder. then right click the mouse once. select properties at the bottom of the menu. select...
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AnswerI found dozens offered on eBay a few months ago. Answeri remember seeing one at compusa
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go to start>programs>acc.>system tools>system monitor. There is also a free tool available at www.analogx.com, called netstat...
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AnswerNo. Unlike in previous versions of Windows, there is no possibility of "uninstalling" Windows XP. The reason is that in...
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If you've format your hdd using NTFS, then you need a windows 98 bootdisk to startup, run fdisk.exe and choose Y to treat NTFS as...
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For Unix, any command is run as a sub-process. You don't need an actual command to create the subprocess. You can also force the...
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I'm sure a true geek would answer in much greater depth, but here's how I would characterize the differences. Windows 98SE was,...
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Type conf.exe as a run command.
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They are practically worthless, though you may find someone willing to buy one, usually because they don't know any better.
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Yes. There are a couple ways you could do this. 1. You could purchase an external CD-ROM drive that connects to the parallel...
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AnswerThere were a multitude of changes between Miwith the Microsoft 98 and 2000. First there was an other opperateing system...
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Though not terribly impossible, you would need a file splitter, and a couple hundred floppies. Also- you would be violating...
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Win98 has a FAT file system, XP supports NTFS as well.XP has a system restore featureSome Windows 98 machines do not have USB...
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This usually occurs after formatting or putting a new hard drive into a system and needs to be fidisked. To do this get to a...
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No. Windows 98 it DOS based. Windows 2K and XP are NT based. The software instalation will fail. However, iPod itself can be...
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Passwords are completely useless in Windows 98. If you would like to recover a personal profile, all you need to do is delete the...
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Well the electronic components has an effect on the proccesser and spazzes up! hahahah
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Put the Windows 98 disk in the CD drive and reboot the computer. This should take you through the steps necessary to install 98.
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If you mean reformatting the hard drive, then go to start>shutdown>restart in DOS mode>okay. Your computer will reboot and stop...
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Windows 98 should automaticly assign it a drive letter. You can try running new hardware wizard in the control panel if the...
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If there is space left, you can use Partition Magic to reduce the 2000 partition and make room for the 98 partition. Just install...
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There is no way to downgrade from Windows XP to Windows 98 without formatting.
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In order to prevent the deletion of a folder (or file, program, etc.) in Windows, locate the folder with the find function or...
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Start-programs-accesories-system tools-system information-tools-system configuration utility-startup- From there you can see what...
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Just start the windows 98 setup from DOS, the CD comes with an installation diskette or you can boot off of the CD-ROM, and...
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It it will not run at all, Insert your Win98 CD, and go to a DOS prompt. Run c:\windows\system32\sfc.exe to verify your system...
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I went so far as to install 98 on a system at home just to check this out. I was unable to find an option that would let you...
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Restarts "Windows is shutting down..." or restarts like someone hit the reset switch? If it is the former, you have a process...
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On a Windows 98 system, there is very likely to only be one partition on the disk. The difference between formatting the disk and...
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Yes you can. You can use is as a slave drive. There's nothing to worry if you have windows 98 installed on the HD.
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There are a number of programs you can buy to facilitate this. Both a partition and a CD are possible, but the partition is a bit...
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AnswerI had this problem consistently occur with my PC and this operating system. As I remember it appeared to occur after I...
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No updates will "hurt" it; but for space's sake, only apply updates to issues that you know will affect you. For example, if you...
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The drivers for the mouse might be incompatible with the Windows 98 operating system.
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You can not disable a partition in Windows 98 but you can remove it(everything on the partition will be lost if not saved...
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This disk is used to start Windows 98 command prompt. It helps to resolve or format issues within Windows 98. All you have to do...
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Possible reasons: 1. Installation problem. 2. Corrupted installer. How to fix this: 1. Write down the filename of...
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You would have to get a CD drive which fits in your laptop or get an external USB one which you can connect to it
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Go to "control panel">"administrative tools">"computer management">"storage">"disk management" choose the partition...
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first of all u create a folder then use: attrib -h to hide it. u can also lock folder using dos by usin number key ...
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You can't convert it. You can back up your data and reformat it (wipe the drive clean) using fdisk (Start>Run>fdisk) if you want.
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Run ScanDisk first. If you have disk errors, Defrag will not run. If ScanDisk will not run, install Norton System Works. Run...
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I would start at microsoft.com, look for support, then search for your problem in their knowledge base. hope that helps
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From the dos prompt, you can copy most files only to a floppy as the system won't recognize any other devices (e.g. cdrw).
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Just reload Windows 98, all your files should still be available but you may have to hunt for them.
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This works if ousb flash device works fine with with other computers. i have asolution fo this...u can format it by a utility...
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Safe Mode is a way of allowing the user to access the Control Panel, Hardware Manager, and other portions of the Windows...
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This is a pretty drastic process and takes several hours. If you have system slow downs and ongoing bugs you may be able to...
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Make sure that u r installing the program on the ACTIVE partition (the one the computer boots from, this should be letter C:)...
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Yes, you can it work just fine.
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Click on the start menu. Click on shut down. Choose shutdown from the drop menu box. Then click OK.
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yes as long as you can find the right driver files for that modem try www.driversguide.com
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AnswerNo, you shouldn't need a drivers disk besides the Windows 98 disk. It is however always better to do a fresh clean install...
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AnswerMethod 1:* Place the Windows 98 CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive, and have a floppy disk available. * Click Start, point to...
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if the drive formatted? check drive properties (right click on new drive), and see if it has a file system on it. FAT/FAT32/NTFS...
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You should be able to reinstall win98 and not format your storage device. If prompted to repair windows, do that instead. Another...
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If you have a Microsoft Windows 98 Upgrade CD, you simply put it inside the CD Rom drive and it should launch and proceed to do...
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Here's all dos...
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You will need to do a clean 1k then defrag Fdisk then format
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the question is, what command interpreter are you lookign for? if you are looking for the CMD of Windows XP/NT ... you are...
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You need a boot disk to start it up. Either use your emergency repair disk that you created for that operating system. Boot up...
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Windows 98 came with support for USB built-in; Windows 95 needed an add-on released only for OEM versions. Windows 98 supports...
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AnswerIf the floppy disk is in (assuming you don't want to format), the drive letter of your CD ROM (D:). If the CD ROM is...
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If you have the Win98 disk you can format the drive and wipe ME off and install 98 over it. BACK THE SYSTEM...
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It works for me.
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you shouldn't have to format a cd-rw just save files to it
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Preparing a Hard drive for Windows 98Usually, the problem is with the state of the hard drive at the time of the istallation....
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Yes, I just did it. With the XP Upgrade CD in, in windows 98 go to run in the start menu and open setup.exe from the cdrom drive,...
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start PC in DOS, if you hard drive is drive C then enter FORMAT C: it will prompt you that you will lose all information. type...
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It is very easy to do this. The only thing you must remember is that you cannot install windows 98 from Windows XP environment....
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2000 has stability, security, and better networking, but you lose 16-bit program support.
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If by "load" you mean ejaculate then Yes, it is fine, you can't run out or over use your penis.
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Use a Boot up CD or Boot up Floppy to format the C: Drive and then install ur Operating System. to create a boot floppy go to...
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Using msconfigThis kind of depends on if you already have the ability to select Operating Systems or not. Assuming that you've...
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To anser you're question, First you uninstall Me. Then you need a floppy of windows 98 and the Installation disk for window's...
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No. Windows 95 supported only VxD drivers, which no Windows in the NT line (NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4, 2000, XP, Vista) support....
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It sounds like the drive is too large for Win 98 to recognize. I've seen varying accounts of the largest drive Win 98 will...
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I have now found the answer elsewhere, thanks.
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The physical and logical structure of computers is normally described i n reference manuals provided with the system.
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It's the System folder. But if you are looking for windows/dos commands you'll find them in the Command folder
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Hello, To upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP first make sure you have the correct system requirements: - at least a...
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AnswerInstead of getting to Windows ME from Windows 98 ... Why don't u go to Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 installed later on or...
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Answerwhen the reinstall starts cancel it go into my computer open the CD ROM drive in a folder window a look for the files...
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Yes, there are many ways to password protect a program file in Windows 98: 1. Use a compressor and compress your program file...
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Remove programes from startup,means,go to start-startup-remove all the prog,try this
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That's a bit of a trick question. There really is no such thing as an "XP Hard drive" or "Win98 Computer". If you're asking if...
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