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Help and support for Windows 98. Links to technical solutions, how-to articles, and answers to top issues.

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Update your computer to daylight saving time
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End of support for Windows 98 and Windows Me
Effective July 11, 2006, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me (and their related components) will transition to a non-supported status. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide any incident support options or security updates. Microsoft is not offering a custom support agreement for these products.
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how-to articles - Windows 98

how-to articles - Windows 98

Description and Availability of MSN Messenger Service
MSN Messenger Service is an instant messaging program that tells you when your friends are online so that you can send an instant message to a friend or "talk" with several friends at once.
MS-DOS Partitioning Summary
This article contains a summary of MS-DOS partitioning information. For information on how MS-DOS assigns drive letters, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Order in Which MS-DOS Assigns Drive Letters
How to Increase the Maximum Recording Time in the Sound Recorder Utility
The Sound Recorder utility that is included with Windows 95 and Windows 98 has a default maximum recording time of 60 seconds. It may be useful to increase the recording time, and this article describes how to increase the maximum recording time in the...

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Download details - Windows 98

Download details - Windows 98

MS05-026: A vulnerability in HTML Help could allow remote code execution
Explains that Microsoft has released security bulletin MS05-026. The security update in MS05-026, security update 896358, fixes a vulnerability in HTML Help that could allow remote code execution.
Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB
When you use Fdisk.exe to partition a hard disk that is larger than 64 GB (64 gigabytes, or 68,719,476,736 bytes) in size, Fdisk does not report the correct size of the hard disk. The size that Fdisk reports is the full size of the hard disk minus 64...
Exception 0E in Vredir error messages when you open network files
When you open several files that are stored in a shared folder on a network, your computer may generate one of following error messages on a blue screen, you may be unable to continue normally, and you may receive more error messages on blue screens if...

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Troubleshooting - Windows 98

Troubleshooting - Windows 98

Project appears to stop responding when you change the update setting in the Links dialog box
In Microsoft Project, in the Links dialog box, when you click Update Now or you change the Update option, Microsoft Project may either stop responding (hang) or appear to stop responding for several minutes.
BUG: Unattended Client Installation on Windows 9x Computer Incorrectly Requests Deskecli.bat File
When you use the Sql70cli.bat file on a Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98-based computer to perform an unattended Client installation, you might receive the following error message: However, the Deskecli.bat file does not exist on the SQL...
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error" error message after you install Office XP or an Office XP program
Describes the error messages that you receive after you install Office XP or an Office XP program. To resolve this problem, clean boot the computer by using MoSearch or remove the "Support for Fast Searching" feature.

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