Are there still any easy-to-configure remote assistance solutions where the non-technical end user is on Windows 98? Small sums of money may be available, but free preferred. [more inside]
posted by galaksit on Nov 10, 2008 - 5 answers

Will Windows 98 and XP run and dual boot (or, treble boot, I suppose,) with my new Vista running computer? [more inside]
posted by Snyder on Jun 8, 2008 - 5 answers

Where can I get hold of a power supply for an old - pre-USB - Mustek 600 UC scanner? [more inside]
posted by Lionel d'Lion on May 10, 2008 - 10 answers

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the music that used to play once you had booted into Windows 98 SE? [more inside]
posted by chairish on Apr 20, 2008 - 9 answers

How do I get ~40GB of data off my outdated PC? [more inside]
posted by kwaller on Mar 8, 2008 - 20 answers

I have a machine running Windows 98 SE on a cable internet connection. Why am I recently getting connection speeds of 91 kbps (or less!)? (Measured at CNET's Bandwidth Meter) [more inside]
posted by jaronson on Feb 24, 2008 - 4 answers

Installing Apache on Win98SE [more inside]
posted by unsurmountable on Jul 30, 2007 - 5 answers

PrehistoricPCFilter. Win98 (SE); bad clusters appearing every couple of days. Due to using Azureus? Just plain senility on the laptop's part? Advice greatly appreciated. [more inside]
posted by Gratishades on Nov 8, 2006 - 8 answers

Question regarding getting Windows 98 to play nice with a Linksys Router and another Win XP computer on a home network. [more inside]
posted by TrueVox on Jun 24, 2006 - 6 answers

How do I get my Win98 PC to recognize USB drives & SD cards as additional drives, so I can transfer files to them from my hard drive? [more inside]
posted by raedyn on Feb 11, 2006 - 9 answers

Help with file sharing between Win98 and WinXP? [more inside]
posted by Jaybo on Jun 19, 2005 - 4 answers

Email forwarding problem within the domain: Trying to fix my boss's email account. He checks his email using Netscape 7.2 on a Win98 PC. (We can't convince him to upgrade). He can send mail and reply to mail fine. He can forward mail fine, except when it is to one of use within the same domain name. It appears to send successfully but never shows up. I've tried looking through the email headers but nothing sticks out and I don't relaly know what to look for. Was wondering if this situation rings a bell for anyone?
posted by jacobsee on Jan 28, 2005 - 4 answers

There's probably an obvious answer to this one. My dad has an older pentium running Windows 98 and IE 5.0 connecting to the net via a cable modem. He does three things on the net 1) play chess 2) check email on Yahoo 3) check email on Hotmail. Three weeks ago he stopped being able to log into Hotmail. (MI) [more inside]
posted by dismitree on Dec 28, 2004 - 11 answers

Installing new Hard Drive. Trying to install a second, new 80GB hard drive under Windows 98. Will detect the drive, but won't boot... [mi] [more inside]
posted by sinical on Nov 28, 2004 - 10 answers

Connecting a Mac Powerbook (Panther) to a Windows 98 box. Help, please. --> [more inside]
posted by dobbs on Jun 25, 2004 - 43 answers

The new network Friday challenge: I need to set up a network for my new place and I wanted to do it with my available stuff. How close can I come? More inside. [more inside]
posted by Mayor Curley on May 28, 2004 - 15 answers

Updating Windows98 SE to Windows XP. (mi) [more inside]
posted by RavinDave on May 28, 2004 - 10 answers

Is this the easiest way to set the username variable with Win95/98?
posted by dogwelder on Mar 1, 2004 - 2 answers

My girlfriend's computer is from the late Jurassic period-- Gateway with an AMD 500-something mhz processor and 64 megs of RAM running 98 SE. It used to burn cd's from her mp3 collection generally flawlessly, but lately any cd made starts late in the first song and the track numbering is off (e.g. the player dosen't change from "2" to "3" until the middle of track 3.)

We switched from Roxio to Nero, tried converting to .wav with Winamp beforehand, but it's still off.

Any idea what the problem might be?
posted by Mayor Curley on Feb 28, 2004 - 3 answers

I have a home network with 3 XP Pro machines which can all share files perfectly with one another - and a Windows 98 SE machine which refuses. Help I'm desperate {more inside} [more inside]
posted by ac on Feb 16, 2004 - 2 answers

I have a large hard drive that was in my Win 98 machine. It's got 50 gb of MP3s on it that I bought over 3 years at emusic. However, I now have a Mac (powerbook) with Panther. I have an external firewire enclosure for that drive and when I plug it into the Mac, it sees the drive (appears on the desktop) but can't read or write to it (tells me I have to format it). How can I get the music off of it? I want to move the music onto a different external firewire drive that I bought with the Mac and where the music I bought since switching sits.
posted by dobbs on Feb 8, 2004 - 13 answers

I've just bought a new 80gb hard drive (Hitachi deskstar).
It shows up as 80gb in the bios, but only as 13gb in f-disk.
What's wrong, please?
posted by the cuban on Feb 8, 2004 - 5 answers

I need a good freeware DVD player for Win98. [more inside]
posted by wanderingmind on Dec 27, 2003 - 5 answers