Everytime I open my computer and search around in C: drive for certain files I have downloaded I get the error ‘Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module PDM.DLL at 015f:4a01259d’. I click on the ok button then lose most of the icons in the system tray. This only occurred after the installation of Microsoft Visual Basic 6. I have reinstalled Windows 98 and Visual Basic 6 but that has not helped. I am running Pentium II 266 MMX, Windows 98, 64mb RAM, and a 3 gig HDD. Please help. (more…)

I administer a small network of computers in a local training centre. The network has internet access via an ADSL modem. Is there any way that I can stop people downloading EXE and ZIP files from the internet? The network is peer to peer with all computers running Windows NT 4 workstation. Thanks for your help. (more…)

I have a Samtron PC that operates on the Windows 98 system and would like to know what function key one uses to get the extended dash which is centred on a line. The dash is equivalent to two hyphens joined together and should be used in sentences as a spacer instead of using a hyphen; which is technically incorrect. Any ideas? Your help would be much appreciated. (more…)

I wrote last year when I was not able to print from Internet Explorer and Outlook Express after upgrading to Internet Explorer 5.5. You replied with a suggestion to disable ‘Auto-select’ encoding. Unfortunately, this hasn’t done the trick so I’m still stuck with a problem of not being able to print. I would appreciate it if you could advise of any other options that I could try. (more…)

I have an Intel Celeron 466 Computer with Windows 98 SE, 128 MB RAM, Diamond Viper V770 Display, Creative DVD5241E Drive, and Rockwell HCF 56K Data Fax RTAD PCI Modem. Norton Windoctor regularly displays the error message ‘The Active X/COM section of your Windows Registry contains one or more invalid entries’. The details are: ‘Missing or Invalid Key: ‘AtWorkRenderingshellPrintTocommand’ refers to an invalid command entry ‘C:Program FilesWindows UpdateRTF (more…)