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there are possibly better places to ask BUT my main pc ( this one0 boots up to win xp and after the desktop appears a few seconds later a black box "file not found c:\windows\system32> exit or clicking on the red close x removes it. I have no idea whay causes this I asked bob cerelli ( windows...

First I have saved many of my old files on several hard drisks ( oopied from fading cd;'s) since win xp tends to get screwed up,. Icopied and cloned a few extra drives using 10g and 20gb drives as an os.. I fond a working install from last august. thought all the older ones were lost. It is...

I have acopy of nyacg pc-blue cd which has cm.m and early dos programs

i was told "we had usb printers working with xp) Ithink it is likely this very nice fast 1200 dpi laser printer should eb sween but there must be something I have not dicovered. it took a week toswitch it from spanish to englichthe printing is still spanish,but it has no parallel; port I...

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php remove otrher drivers choose either 98 or 98se works fointel 82440lx/ex chip set r my chaintech 6eas with the intel I was uinable toget the chipset driver but other mb manuf. may have it. hope this helps. there is a service pack (...

digging in a box we found a chaintech amd based vnf4 motherboard. I can dind a review with detailed information. But a manual or drivers? when Chaintech pleaded " it is a discontinued part." I told them that it would cost NOTHING to keep it ion the website. That customers would judge a company...

my last "experiment here:" was to patch win mE.,- try not to say " why bother" I tried the suggestions after patching and I could not get it to sys or format /s a floppy. I do not know it can be done. after installing the boot files from 98 and trying to put mE files back unsucsesfully and...

maybe this is not QUITE vinatge. BUT. and maybe I have too much time on my hands. I was going thry my bootdisks and changing those that are strange self-extractors to a better scheme that lets me see what is in them. I had previousy done 6.22 This time I started with win me. I discovered that...

this program was suggested to me on photo.net. as they accumulate lots of picture files and the current windows tools are pretty clunky. this should be a useful tool for everytone running windows. but something for DOS would be preferred. IS this something everyone has neglected to be aware of...

this time I checked the title I have a lon-ish text file about wordstar history some rare versions are listed by name might vbe a way to find them ?

I WISH i COULD EDIT THE TITLE DOES NOT WORK WITH A PENTIUM ONLY A 486 I got a call from someone who tells me that he has a serial semiconductor testing device, it works with a 486. but not on any pentium. He argues that a serial port is a serial port. I countered that a 486 will have a isa...

for a long time I kept a copy of wordstar professional 4.0 ( dos 1987) on my newer pc. I was used to it and used the column mode. I never printed with it. although HP printers are backwards compatible. Meaning if you have a LJ II or a LJ 6 or a inkjet 520, and tell wordstar you have som other...

I tested the cd that was sent me. sorry it is windows 311 I cannot edit the title nor delete the thread and start over it has an empty root directory., there was no autorun at that time. three directories dos ( 6.22) mouse and windows (3,11) the dos files are not compressed as they are on the...

after I had got to a certain point with the gateway 486, i needed a newer mb to boot from cd and clear a nasty virus from anything. ( hiren's older versions put you at no risk of re-infection) after everything was cleared. I noticed the hard drive mounted in the old ( my last remaining...

Just got a response from Promise. they have no docs or info in EIDE MAX isa card. it is a HD only controller. and some whetre someplace I may have a manual. I will set it aside until i find an answer. it has been intersting.