Can anyone help me.
I gave my grandson an old computer I bought in 1999.
It has 12 gb hard drive.
windows 98.
Their is a lot of rubbish on it now.
He cannot start a game, cannot remove the game .
How can you reload windows 98 from scratch, I would be obliged for any help.

THANKS for no help.

lordkent21,

It has only been a few hours since your request, and expecting such a prompt reply in such a short time may be being a little unreasonable.

I myself havent reinstalled windows 98 for many a year, but from what I recall, you need the Windows98 install CD.

You also need to create a windows98 boot floppy, this will enable the machine to detect the CDRom drive upon boot.

Reboot the machine with the boot floppy (how to create the boot floppy you will have to read the help, I cant remember), then type the following:
format c:

this will remove ALL the data on the C: (back up anything that you want saved!), then put the Windows98 CDRom into the CDRom drive, and type:
d:\setup.exe

this *should* start the install proceedure for Windows98...

Good luck.

J.

lordkent , with the computer you should have got a product recovery disc or restore disc. Insert this and follow instructions and it will overwrite everything and your computer will be as it left the store. Hope you still have the disc. Having reread your message I think you mean a cd is jammed in the machine. Should be able to open it with a straightened paperclip if you can see the hole.

LordKent21

I reinstalled Win 98 after doing a hard disc reformat as well, surprisingly easy. I have a copy of a magazine (Best of Computer Active Workshops 2002) Could scan it & try to e-mail to you as a jpeg if you want - will need a valid email address though as money am will not permit attachments.

Send me an e-mail through money am if you want - could be a couple of days before I do it though - work pressures.

lordkent, tech help can take a while to arrive (this is an investment/trading BB after all). If you follow Tullets method you should have no problems. By the way a boot disc from any PC running the same version of windows can be used.

A less drastic step MAY be to start the PC in safe mode and then try removing the game. Pressing F8 while the PC boots up should get you into safe mode and rebooting it after will restore it to normal operation. Im not sure this will cure your problem but youve nothing to lose in trying.

good luck

Neil

LK21 - A quick way, if it's a generic pc -

Make sure the win98 directory is copied from the installation CD to drive C:
Hit F8 on boot and select command prompt
Type the following

C:
Deltree windows
CD win98
setup


follow the instructions and a new, pristine, win98 will (hopefully) emerge at the other end - you will, of course, need to make sure that you have all the driver disks available for the video, modem, sound and any other cards in the PC and not automatically supported by 98. These you re-load after 98 is installed

Thanks all.
Please forgive me for being impatient.

Hi all,

I recently had a problem with my system going incredibly slow. A bit of investigation revealed that just after boot up "system monitor" showed the processor usage to be 100%. Having now removed everything that I didn't recognise from startup in msconfig it's now down to 1%.

For anyone wanting to get rid of the myriad of programs that decide that they are so important that they should run in the background all the time, do the following.

Press Start
Press Run
Type msconfig
Click OK
Select the startup tag
deselect the things you don't recognise.
Click OK
Reboot

The thing you want to keep are things like
Task manager
System tray

And anything else you know that you want like (in my case)
Adaptec directCD
Microsoft office shortcut bar.

Thins I knew I didn't need were things like
shockmachine reminder
Quicktime task

HTH

Mike.

I belong to a tips website. During the past couple of weeks the right hand edge of any of their printer-friendly material is missing from my print-preview and the printout. They assure me that the fault is at my end and is a problem between my browser and printer

Snip, I try to print off Croc's week ahead list & find the same problem sometimes. I have cured it by choosing
File
Page setup
then altering the margins down.
Click OK then do the same but choose print preview and you'll see if it works.
Hope this works - or have you already done this?

yes I did seymour. No luck

Sorry, I can't offer any more help - that's the limit of my tech ability.

Someone else perhaps may help?

It may sound stupid but have you tried changing from portrait to landscape and then view print preview - what you want may come on an odd page. Had same problem with bigcharts print friendly - do not use this , use print from File menu at top.

thanks maddoc I can do both but I want the chart colours with a white background and If I print without print friendly I will get a coloured background. Not ink- efficient! Re landscape yes that works but no good to see quickly in a file. Anyway its meant to be portrait

I think I`ve sorted it. Clicked on view and changed the internet text size to smaller

Looking for an MP3 player so we can take music on holiday with us. I'm presently thinking of a CD MP3 player as they can be quite cheap on ebay and I can stick all my favourites on CD and take a minimum number of CDs with us, but wondering if anyone else had a better idea or could point me in the right direction. Think I prefer to have CDs as I can use them with my PC. Where to buy if not ebay, waht software people use for converting to MP3? All help gratefully received.

Advice on the best procedure to Format my hard drive,Im using Win XP PRO.
I need to clear all files and start again.

Format xp? I use a windows 98 boot disk and type format c: at the a:> prompt.
Bootdisk available at http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

However MS technical support comes up with this -

HOW TO: Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP (Q313348)
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q313/3/48.asp

Thanks Leo.Most helpful.
Cheers,Iain