Question: My Microsoft Word 97 program keeps crashing randomly. Sometimes the system just freezes and I have to reboot. It’s been this way for three weeks and I can barely get through a document before it freezes and I lose the most recent changes. It’s driving me nuts. –A.W. Answer: I once dated a very […]
Question: I recently swapped the motherboard including CPU and memory for a Pentium 200 MMX chip and an i430vx Mainboard motherboard. I had to remove all VESA cards and reposition my Sound Blaster 16 soundcard because it was in mortal combat with the CPU fan. Generally, I am very happy with the swap. I thought […]
Question: Someone told me that, if I want to install the Windows 98 full version on top of Windows 95 without reformatting my hard drive, I should delete these files: msdos.sys io.sys command .com c:windows system.dat user.dat all files ending with .reg They said I should then boot with a boot disk and install Windows […]
Question: We have tried to download a scanner program from Acer Peripherals. It downloads fine, but then, there are all these icons and we do not know where to proceed from there. In the meantime, we have a scanner that is useless to us. Can you help? —G.F. Answer: Downloading is one of the great […]
Question: This is an MPEG I sent to our friend for his birthday and CCed my husband, but he can’t read it. He has a Dell laptop and Windows 98. Oh great genius, how does one associate a program with a file type in Windows 98? – D.S. Answer: The reader sent along a highly […]
