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HELP!!! by Linda
My sister and I were performing the monthly preventative maintenance measures on her computer and the very first thing we did was sfc. It took care of a few things then said we needed to reboot, when we did it has not came back up yet. It keeps throwing us to the screen where you can choose safe...
July 6th 04 12:29 AM
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Re-Format Hard Drive? by Stephanie Inge
Need to know directions on how to erase/re-format hard drive on my old computer? Is there an easy way to do this?
July 5th 04 11:45 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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What is suchostp file??? by dave e
Recently I've been getting message to close out program suchostp before exiting windows. It's irritating to have to do this everytime I shut the PC down...what is this file? Can I delete it? It resides in the windows folder, so I'm not sure I can.
July 5th 04 04:45 PM
by Buffalo Go to last post
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error msg by
programs keep shutting down ... when i click okay on the close program box another msg comes up saying that the system is busy waiting for the close program box and then i end up having to shut down to get rid of it
July 4th 04 07:32 PM
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msgsvr32 by Kathy
Msgsrv32.exe Stops Responding and Then the Computer Stops Responding HELP!!!
July 4th 04 06:03 PM
by Kathy Go to last post
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win 98 pc freezes up after 3- 5 minutes by
I had a suggestion of checking the Fans, cards and dust Bunnies. It is a very clean machine and all fans are working fine. I also reinstalled win98, any other suggestions. could it be a bad solder point on the motherboard.
July 4th 04 04:29 PM
by Buffalo Go to last post
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scandisk/defrag by Joyce Marshall
My problem is that for several months I have been unable to scan or defrag. It starts for 10 times then informs me another program is writing to it. What do I do to fix this problem?
July 4th 04 01:55 PM
by hdmatzat Go to last post
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Restart by Arjun Reddy
hai!!!!!! my pc is getting restarted automatically without my manual restart.recently I installed a Cd-r/rw to my pc.i don't whether it is conficting.plz help me my mail address is
July 4th 04 05:45 AM
by Arjun Reddy Go to last post
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Signals by Avril Bell
Keep getting blue/black horizontal stripes with message "input signal out of reach".Why?
July 3rd 04 11:18 PM
by Richard G. Harper Go to last post
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Fat or fat 32 for swap file by John Callaway
My computer is an IBM PC 300PL Win 98se os, 500 mhrtz pIII processor with 384 mb ram. I have partitioned one drive to C,D&E. E is used as swap file. C&D are fat 32, E is fat. Is this a conflict? I am still hearing a beep every so often. JPC
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July 3rd 04 09:26 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Missing mfc42.dll file by Galger
Hello! I'm not sure this is the right place to post this question. After removing Earthlink related files from my computer, I now get a message saying that mfc42.dll cannot be found after booting up the machine. I did check, and this dll is found in multiple locations
July 3rd 04 09:20 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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My Screensaver by Haris
When I'm having my screen saver on I get a problem. This happens with the most of the screen savers I have like "The 60's USA, Science, Jungle" and more. When I touch my mouse and the screen saver is on, then my computer restarts by it self. Why is it so?
July 3rd 04 09:16 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Many system functions don't work by Bruce
For example: 1) when I click on any icons within the control panel, they won't open, 2) I can't open the Help directory and 3) the computer won't install a new program I've downloaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
July 3rd 04 09:14 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Slow computer; erratic cursor. by Bill
Hello! Computer has suddenly become slooooooow in opening applications and pages. Cursor is erratic in movement, with Windows flag-icon jumping in and out, along with the pointer. Mouse is tightly-connected. Norton/Symantec Anti-Virus and Utilities installed just before. Any correlation? Any cures?...
July 3rd 04 04:44 PM
by Buffalo Go to last post
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Background programs slowing performance by
I want to prevent as many background programs as possible from running every time I start my computer (Windows 98, cable modem, ample, I think, ram). How can I find out what all the programs listed in the Task Manager are and whether or not I can remove them?
July 3rd 04 01:35 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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How Much Memory by Dana
My Win98 pc came with 128mg ram, I have since added 512mg, but the performance has not improved. When booting up it still grinds at the 'hard drive' and I have few things in my start up. I run 'Adware', 'Spybot' consistantly, so I am very diligent in keeping my computer clean. When I checked my...
July 2nd 04 06:38 PM
by Buffalo Go to last post
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Startup black window confusing by Maria
Running windows 98 When I startup PC It stops in dark screen showing info such as Pentiumlll 600MHz Award plug and play BIOS extension VI.oe SPRAM SPDCAS LATENCE TIME is "2"Bla, bla, bla, IDE Primary Slave NONE IDE secondary Master 4x4x32 IDE secondary Slave...NONE Conflict I/O POrts:2F8 Press F1...
July 2nd 04 12:09 PM
by Richard G. Harper Go to last post
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windows 98 blue screens by chris
in the past 2 days 5 or 6 ppls win 98se boxes died they all have juss bout the same problem. on start up it acts fine but it gets the desktop and the mouse flashes on and then blue screen with an error. this happens in both normal and safe mode. the only difference is that the safe mode blue...
July 1st 04 11:05 PM
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Windows Temp file by Czarnee
I keep my Windows 98 pretty clean of clutter. I do disc clean up and have the temp file checked and clear it each time. However in Windows Explorer under "Windows" there is a "Temp" folder. This has a lot of files and I need to know if it is okay to clean this too.
July 1st 04 06:04 PM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
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PC Freezes UP by Greg
I am running windows 98 2nd edition. As of last week, about 3-5 minutes after widows comes up, the pc will FREEZE UP, everytime. Only way out is to power down. Any help as to why it stared to freeze up, and possible soultions.
July 1st 04 05:19 PM
by Buffalo Go to last post
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