Roving

This has gotten kind of complicated, but one thing caught my eye, about boot partitions and all that. Usually the primary partition "C" is where the OS is installed, I haven't experimented with multiple os in the same drive so can't comment on that, but my impression is that you can only have one bootable partition on a drive, so if you wanted to put in a second one, you'd have to make the first one not be bootable anymore. As I recall, I've read of making a small bootable partition when there is more than one os, which has a menu of options and acts as the boot manager so you can pick which one you want to run, with each os having its own partition. If you wanted to try that, you would have to use a partition manager to move the existing XP installation into its own partition away from C, and obviously shrink the old boot partition to just what you need for your boot manager, create a third partition or however you want to do it, for the new XP installation and go from there. You should look up boot managers for more information. Apparently XP actually has its own boot manager, but is only included in the Pro version. I think I actually used it myself, but I've forgotten the details. Try here to start: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/windows-xp-in/0596002491/re54.html

Maybe Telix will help, it's been awhile for me so I don't remember much about it. Start at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telix

I found a discussion of Office 2013, keeping it, here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/reinstall-windows-10-but-keep-microsoft-office/d73df984-ef71-4bf2-8ee8-46941eb5db2f It says basically the same thing, you need the original media and key and without that, you can't keep it once it's wiped. The only other option I can think of it to get a hack for the key, but that's not really a good option in my experience as often such hacks either don't work, or they might open you up to other problems. What I recommend is use Open Office instead. It's a very capable program and if you need to, you can open the files in Microsoft Office and save them there a second time in Microsoft's format. Do understand though that MS Office will not keep any fancy features you might use in OO in the transition. It's good enough to get started though, and sometimes that is all you need.

You probably need the key and everything. Here's a Wiki post I found on MS Office: https://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Microsoft-Office-to-Another-Computer It's probably about as relevant as anything for your problem. It's not a simple task at all. (Microsoft wants to sell more Office subscriptions so they don't have any incentive to make it easy.)

And if that's too scary, Mozilla's download page is here: http://www.mozilla.org/download.html They list everything they have there. Roving

You've gotta be kidding me. If you can't find a vendor, there's always E-Bay!

I prefer Editpad Lite because it makes the URL's clickable. Still free! Roving

Have you tried downloading the latest driver at http://www.linksys.com/ ??? Roving

Well, all isn't lost, you apparently have either renamed or deleted some of the "normal" desktop icons. But no matter, there is a program on your drive that can find all the info you need and more: msinfo32.exe. Just go to start button, click on "run" and type "msinfo32" and voila... If you don't happen to have a start button, you can use Windows Explorer to locate the file using the search files/folder function, and then go to the location and click on the file to run it. More info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q184075/ Description of Microsoft System Information (Msinfo32.exe) Tool More info on this and other tools: http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/windows98_tools.html Bud's Troubleshooter: Windows 98 Support Tools Roving

On your computer, click on "My Computer" icon to bring up a menu, select "Properties" and see what it says under "Computer."

I found a good site for answers to this error issue, but my first impulse is to say, don't use a Winmodem. They aren't worth it. If that's not possible, then you can try troubleshooting -- it sounds like a driver issue, as suggested below: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.p...1ac689e5e1ed672 If the above isn't enough, you can try this link: http://www.modemhelp.net/dunerror/error_630.shtml Roving

Are you using an AMD CPU?