re: desktop click opens menu
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 4:03 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe Hepperle
(73 messages posted)
Hi dhm:
Just one minor adjustment here. Micro$oft has stopped Support for Win98, but
they have not stopped the ability to download updates. All updates that were ever
made for Win98 are still freely available on the Windows update site for anyone running
Win98.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
Joe Hepperle
On Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 2:42 pm, dhm wrote:
>
>I had something similar happen. After doing something complicated a left click
kept
>bringing up the right click menu. This has happened a couple times. In my case
>all I have to do it log off and log on. I don't have to reboot. I have no password
>so it only takes a couple seconds.
>
>Your bug seems to be the kind of quirk that is accumulated by some non-fatal corruption
>in Windows. For instance, for some months I had any list of files come up in the
>actual file allocation order. I could reorder it for Name or Type or Modified but
>that information was immediately lost. I finally got tired of the problem and reloaded
>the operating system. That created some days of hassle but it cured the problem.
> I tried a dirty install (remove the antivirus and firewall or they may prevent
the
>action) over the existing system but that would not take. I renamed the old operating
>system folder to Windows0 and reinstalled. Then I copied the contents of the old
>C:\Windows\Application Data into the new one and most everything was reconnected.
>
>If you do, since M$ft will no longer allow you to run Windows Update on Win98 you
>will need one of the packages that has rolled up all the upgrades. Some on them
>do unwanted things. Some change parts of your appearance to look like Win2K. Two
>of them disable part of TweakUI so I couldn't simply delete those messy shortcut
>arrows. Instead I had to dig out 6 references from the registry to do that.
>
>Tho I haven't tried it, Gewg recommends this upgrade package as just right:
>
>
>
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