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by lncrwley

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I bought a used computer from an auction. It was owned by a college. It's got Win 98, P3 and 256 megs of RAM. It was connected to a network and had McAfee. I uninstalled Network Associates which contained McAfee. I tried to put PC Cillin on it but it said that it couldn't access the network and \my pictures\. I removed all folders named "my pictures". I went to McAfee website and did a manual uninstall just to be sure all files were gone but it still said that an antivirus was istalled. I finally had to put AVG on it. That's now working. Now when I'm trying to install MSN instant messenger, I'm getting an error message "could not access network location \my pictures\ ", error 1603. I called the college and spoke with the ITS help desk and they couldn't help at all. There is no network installed on this computer. Does anyone have any idea how I can get rid of that error message?

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by cptomlly

I would recommend a clean installation of Windows on the PC. Windows 98 tends to get a bit "dirty" after being in use for a long period of time. This is compounded if you are changing the environment it originally installed for, and removing old programs without documentation.

Bottom line is that if you aren't getting help from the people who installed and supported the PC originally, you are going to have a helluva time ferretting out the issues yourself.

by malkeetdxb

The easiest way to isolate the machine from
the networking environment for individual use
is to remove all the adapter from network
places i.e. TCP/IP, NETBUEI.
This get rid of the network protocols.
And machine will be normal for individual use.
If u r willing to access the internet
configure the dial up adpater.
Still if u require any more help pls. post.

by lncrwley

Both answers were very good. I followed both suggestions. What finally worked was tweaking the registry. Thank God for registry backups!
Thank you both for your help.

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