Sampson

First, bring up a Dos Prompt within windows. Then, hit CTRL-SHIFT-ESC to bring up your task manager. Find Explorer.exe, click on it to highlight it. Then, click the End Process button. Your windows desktop may act strangely and some icons may disappear. Pay no attention to that. Click back into the Dos window and type cd \windows\system32 or whatever directory you are looking for. Use the command dir msephh.dll to be sure that the file is there then del msephh.dll Type exit to leave the Dos window. Click on the start button Run then type explorer.exe or you can just reboot.

I am not sure I understand what you mean. Go to this address: http://us.creative.com/welcome.asp Click on the word support. Then click on downloads. Then in the three boxes below choose Soundblaster, then 16bit, then Soundblaster 16PCI (if that is what it is.) Click on Go. This will then take you to a page where you can download both the the driver which was last updated Dec 2002 and the manual. When you get the driver, run it from where you saved it and it should install the XP version. Since you also can get the manual, you can use the software to tweak the card.

Try this page for your Sounblaster Card: http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

Yes, the driver is missing for your sound device. If you have onboard sound, you want to visit the webpage of your motherboard to get the correct driver. If it is a sound card, go to the support webpage for that card, download and install it.

You can download a little program called LogonloaderRecoveryTool here: http://logonloader.danielmilner.com/download.php and get the full program here: http://software.deviantart.com/details/240/ . The second program allows you to do some fancy profiling.

More than likely these two components are compatible with XP, it is just that the drivers you are using may be 98's. With the Nvidia card (which is old) you can go two ways. You can go to Nvidia itself: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp and choose the driver appropriate to your card, or you can delete your present drivers, reboot, and let Microsoft find your card as new hardware and have it find the appropriate driver. Nvidia drivers always have to be uninstalled and you must always reboot before installing new ones. (Even then they have been known to leave fragments). For the Creative soundblaster card, you can go here: http://www.creative.com/support/ to find the drivers you need. Or, you can delete the drivers and let Microsoft install the appropriate ones for you. To get rid of those drivers means that you will have to go to the system manager (Right click on the My Computer icon, choose Properties, then choose the Hardware tab, then click on the Device Manager button, then go down to "Sound, video, and game controllers, click on the "+" go to the sound card, right click and bring up properties where you can remove the drivers. Sound cards also have their peculiarities but generally, the Creative soundcard drivers do a pretty good job or uninstalling and reinstalling without much problem, it is just that Creative adds so much of software sometimes that you really will never use.

By installing Netbui into W2K, it will not immediately resolve the logon, but it will allow you a different way for the 98 machines to find your server. If you put together a domain like MainOffice and have some of your computers attached to it (98's using Netbui) and make your server a member of that domain, they should be able to see each other.

Win 98 was set up originally to use NetBui for its network connection. W2K also has the ability to install NetBui. On a small network this is ok and actually the 98 machines will communicate faster. If you are using TCP/IP in your connection assign the IP addresses for the 98 machines first so that the serveer finds them and they find it.

Is your system now working? or is it not? Are you asking now that it works, how did this happen? There can be various reasons how this can happen - 1) an attempt was made to repair an installation, but rather than repair, it created a second instance. 2) someone attempted to gain admininistrator privileges and botched it, 3) a "hijack" occured through a trojan/worm to gain access to passwords and set in place its own administrator's profile. Those are a few I can think of.

Depending on whether the sound driver is onboard or for a separate sound card, the driver can be most easily found by getting into your Device Manager. Right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop, then choose Properties. From the Window that comes up click on the Hardware tab. When the next window that comes up, click on the Device Manager button. The window with the device manager will appear. Look for the listing that says Sound, video, and games controller. Click on the "+" next to this and you will see the various components, one of which will be the sound driver. For most onboard drivers, it will be Realteck AC'97. You will also find the Audio Codec and Legacy Codecs. It is is here that you can update or uninstall the Audio drivers.

When you say you "upgraded" do you mean that you did a clean install or did you install the XP over the 98? If you did the latter, there may be some conflicts in the drivers XP is using. The screen being shrunk is a function of your video driver. What kind of video card do you have? No sound is again a function of the audio driver. Is yours computer with onboard sound or do you have a sound card. If so what is the card? With some of this information we should be able to sort things out.

If you've just installed the Nvidia drivers, it will default to the lowest resolution. Right click anywhere on the desktop where there is no icon, choose properties, then click on the setting tab, and adjust the resolution the way you want it. Then, click on the Advance button, choose the monitor tab and choose the refresh rate. As to knocking out properties to increase your memory, don't fool with it. Go out and get some memory for that thing and cram it full. W2K will love you for it. I put 768meg in an old BX box that runs at 850mh and it does extremely well hauling W2K around.

The easiest solution is not to nest the subdirectories, since the subdirectory's name then becomes part of the name of the file.

Look at this page: http://corelli.new.ox.ac.uk/it/conn/winxp/Instltcpip/instltcpip.htm It gives the basics with illustrations.

If you have onboard sound, be sure that it is disabled. If that is already the case or if you don't have onboard sound then, disable CTHELPER through msconfig (Run - msconfig - startup) then reboot. You will get the message that you shouldn't do this from the operating system. Ignore it. If the sound stops, you know you've found the problem. If it doesn't stop, you can re-enable CTHelper. [Edited by Sampson on 2004-07-11 09:53:02]

If you believe it was AOL that messed up your TCP/IP connections (and this was rather common for W98 and AOL 4.0 and 5.0) and you don't want to try the LSP Fix, if you are still a member of AOL, go onto to their forums. Do a search on this problem. AOL had a program that fixed specifically this mess up.

Perhaps, you could help with figuring out the problem, by answering a few questions. Has the computer always done this? When did it start? Had you installed any software just prior to noticing it restarting itself? Had you made any adjustments or tweaks? When you shut the computer down, (Start, Turn off Computer), do you see a message that a certain program is not responding? When you turn it off definitively, do you have to pull the plug? Not to alarm you, but one possibility is that a trojan is using the interval of the shutdown time to write itself to the registry to allow itself to be reinstalled at bootup and it is simply causing the machine not to shutdown but to reboot given a certain timeout.

After you have uninstalled Quicktime, go into your \Windows\System32 directory and make sure the Quicktime.qts is deleted. Next, what version of Java are you using? Perhaps, you should download a more recent version. Essentially, what I make of this error is that a pretimed window is to be opened and if it fails, to shut the process down. Quicktime was created to work on Macs not Windows. Windows MFC won't allow for those kinds of windows any longer. Had you inadvertantly downloaded the Mac installer previously and tried to run it, then tried to install the Windows version? Or had the software from the ipod tried to do so?

niczar - you may be experiencing this problem because that drive is not supported under XP but only for W98, NT, and W2k. It may have installed a device driver that is incompatible with XP. gchq - this is what Microsoft says about your error: CAUSE These error messages may occur if you move the "Documents and Settings" folder to a location that is not immediately accessible when the computer starts. For example, the error messages may occur if you move the "Documents and Settings" folder to a volume mount point for a large volume set. When this issue occurs, services that are configured to run under a specific user account may not start. RESOLUTION To resolve this issue, move the service account's profile back to the system disk. you can read the full article here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315194 [Edited by Sampson on 2004-07-09 09:13:57]

Take a look at this page from Norton: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2001083014161306

I was going to make a similar suggestion. If you do have a PS2 port on the motherboard and you have a PS2 mouse, have you tried that?

These stop errors are almost impossible to read. You can get some that tell you it is a driver when it is really a faulty font. So, take this with a grain of salt. My guess is that when Windows is swapping from memory to the hard disk, something is where it is not supposed to be and so it stops. How does this happen? When XP first came out, it shut down so fast that the write procedure to the disk telling its index where it left off didn't complete itself. This caused untold hard disk problems. If it were me, I would back up all my data, emails, address book, etc., onto CD's. I would reformat that hard disk through a clean install. It could be your video card, but because you can't chkdsk your hard drive, I would count it as the primary suspect.

Download and try Nero instead of EasyCD. Go to your Device Manager and look to make sure how your CD is connected on the Primary or Secondary IDE and that it has DMA support. If it has only PIO change it to DMA if available.

Well, we seem not to be on the same page as to networking. Nonetheless, here are some of the ways you can determine where the bottleneck is, which, it seems is the router: Check Network Communications If you can communicate between two computers on the local network but not connect to the Internet, you've probably proved that the problem exists in the Internet connection hardware or the Internet connection itself. To check whether you can communicate between two computers, the easiest way is to open Network Neighborhood or My Network Places and try to access a shared resource on a remote computer. Or, you can use the Ping command, with the syntax: ping computername (substitute a real computer name for computername, for example, ping den). If you get an error message, you may have a network communication problem. To make sure, you should also try pinging a remote computer by its IP address. To determine the IP address, go to the remote computer you’re trying to ping and open a command window. Then type ipconfig and press ENTER. The system displays the current IP address (along with other information about the network adapter). Write down the IP address so you can use it with the Ping tool. From another computer on the network, open a command window and type ping x.x.x.x, where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the computer on which you ran ipconfig. If you get a series of error messages, such as “Request timed out” from the ping command, the computer on which ping is running cannot see the other computer. This could mean anything from a disconnected cable to a software crash. But you know that the problem is probably not with your Internet connection equipment. Check the Gateway TCP/IP networking requires a computer or other device to function as a gateway, which is the device that sits between your network and the Internet. If you are using a router, it's probably acting as the gateway. Otherwise, the gateway is probably your ISP. To determine your gateway, open a command window and type ipconfig. The system displays the IP address of the gateway (in addition to other information about the network adapter). Type ping x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the gateway system specified by ipconfig). If you get a series of error messages, such as “Request timed out,” that means that your computer cannot communicate with the gateway. If your gateway is a router, read the troubleshooting section of the User Guide that came with your router (the User Guide may be on the CD instead of a printed booklet). You might have to reset the router by pressing the Reset button and holding it for several seconds. The router will restart and attempt to reconnect to the local network and Internet. If it still fails, you need to contact Linksys technical support (see Appendix C). If your gateway is at your ISP's site, contact your ISP. Disable Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall On Windows XP, if the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) is enabled, you should disable it because it interferes with network communications. To disable ICF, follow these steps: 1. Choose Start | Control Panel | Network And Internet Connections. 2. Click Network Connections. 3. Right-click the listing for your Local Area Connection and choose Properties from the shortcut menu. 4. Select the Advanced tab. 5. Deselect the option to use ICF, and then click OK. Invalid DHCP Lease You may see a message about an invalid DHCP lease in Internet Explorer when you're trying to connect to a Web page. It's likely that your Internet access device tries to retrieve an Internet address automatically from the ISP, and sometimes the ISP's DHCP server is slow to respond to your system's request for an IP address. Before the ISP can supply an address, Windows times out (gets tired of waiting) and assigns the network adapter an APIPA number. To fix the problem, follow these steps: 1. Choose Start | Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER. 2. Type ipconfig and press ENTER. The system displays the IP address assigned to each network adapter on this computer. The network adapter connected to the Internet should have an address of 169.254.x.x, where each x is between 0 and 255. 3. Type ipconfig /release to set the address to 0.0.0.0. 4. Type ipconfig /renew to request a new address for the adapter.

I understood fully what you meant. You may have a bad router. However, I have never heard of Linksys blocking sites unless you go into its setup and give it those instructions. In using the router most of the time you set the Lan up in a domain and each computer recognizes one another through that domain. You really don't need to set up IP addresses for them unless it is to troubleshoot. The router is then only like a switcher that allows each computer to see the other. When you plug the DSL into the WAN of the router, it, in turn, assigns a set of IP addresses to each computer.