AVG Free doesn’t work with Windows 98

May 10th, 2009 Paul Wallbank Posted in A/V, legacy equipment, Windows 98 1 Comment »

My free AVG does not work for my windows 98 Second Edition computer anymore. Can you suggest another free anti virus?

Grisoft stopped support for Windows 98 when they released AVG Free 8.0. As of the end of April 2009 Grisoft have stopped updating the older version 7.5 so there now is no free AVG product that protects Windows 98.

Avast! is the only free Windows 98 compatible virus checker we know of so you should download that, uninstall AVG then install Avast!


Unable to read SD Cards after ejecting.

March 22nd, 2009 Paul Wallbank Posted in Hardware, legacy equipment No Comments »

I can insert a SD card and read it, I can then eject it using the icon with a green arrow on it. however when I put in another SD card it won’t find it. I’m using win 2000 profesional. it works OK with usb flash drives.

The problem is the drivers for the SD card reader. Windows 2000 is particularly buggy with flash media as it was only becoming coming at the time of it’s release.

It’s unlikely you’ll find updates from the manufacturer for Win2k and the device itself is probably ten years old. Although a visit to the Windows Update