2 questions: If hard drive defragmentation is interrupted (stopped) before completion, does it leave copies of files it temporarily made on the hard drive, or are these deleted? Is there any way to determine the identity of which files are fragmented (or are then fixed by defragmentation)on the...

My computer or OS (Win98se), is generating short file names out of existing files with long file names that have a tilde (~) in the name. It doesn't generate or duplicate all files this way, just some. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thanks. Al

HI.. i am having problems with my Windows 98 system. My icons seem to not reacte to my draggin them.. When I reboot it is fine i can move the icons.. and then after a spell of internet browsing. (using IE6) .. or just doing normal stuff on my computer ... the icons are unable to move then.....

Hi, After downloading latest upgrades from Microsoft web site, I'm not able to change the shortcut arrows look anymore. I choose "light arrow" with TweakUI, but nothing happens. Thanks if anyone can give me some advice here how to fix this thing.

I read that one short tone from computer speaker is "Dram Refresh Failure". What does this mean? JPC

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

I have an older system with a 500 mghtz processor and 128 megs of RAM. I have on board video and sound. I re formatted and instaled win 98 (was 95). The entire system slugs now. Clicking the start button I can pull up the start menu- but if i click for instance settings, then control panel - it...

I cannot get my derfag to work. Reports theres not enough free memory available. Even when all programmes are closed. Any ideas??????? Got 256mb RAM and 40 gig h/d about 70% free space. RAM has same.

I cannot use my defragger. It doesn't get past the stage where it checks errors. Therefore I tried using the scan utility (which scans for disk errors). It gives me the message that it is slowed down by a "program writing" during the scan. It is so slow it never finishes, and then never starts...

A couple of days ago my brother was browsing the net. He then shut down as normal. Yesterday he attempted to boot up and couldn't get past the blue Windows 98 screen. I suggested he type scanreg/restore at the prompt in the startup menu, but he can't type a thing. As far as he knows, his keyboard...

Whenever I try to listen to streaming Radio such as Launch cast, I get a lot of juddering if i am browsing at the same time. I also got something similar happening with real player but its not as bad. My system is a bit dated I know, but its a 1ghz P3 and I have 512MB of RAM, running Win98. Is...

I currently have 192Mb of memory in my PC,(1 x 64MB and 1 x 128MB),both are 133Mhz 3.3v. I have just purchased 2 x 256MB memory chips, 133Mhz, 3.3v, when I fitted them the PC ran up for about 30 second and then froze,I had to unplug it to turn it off. I then refitted the old memory and the PC...

Hi, I have a Copaq Presario(1240) laptop wich is unusually slow the last 6 months or so. It has always just been used for admin andsome mail and internet stuff. It has been fine, but now it's just so slow and I get these blue screens that says there something wrong, but hey????? It has a 3.81G...

Since a recent unsuccessfull attemp to install the Norton firewall, my system comes up with the following DOS message while booting up: "Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a window application. The Window registry or system .ini file refers to the device file, but the...

i am having trouble opening a wps file from My Documents- after copy/pasting a picture off internet to the wps file (i have successfully used this method previously, as not all pictures display the download function) -and after having trouble disconnecting from internet/ saving and closing files...

Can anyone advise why when I shut down from the start menu windows will not shut down completley. It seems part of my CPU shuts down but I still have to press and hold the power button until it completley shuts down. Thanks,

Over the past few weeks, the performance of my computer has become progressively worse, to the point where I get error messages about not having enough memory and am forced to reboot just a few minutes after starting windows. I have been running with two stacks of 128 mb of ram (for a total of...

About a week ago my old Dell Precision 486 slowed down to the point where the thorough ScanDisk now takes me around 24 hrs. to complete - defrag about half that time. To bring up the desktop at start-up takes probably 10 minutes, whereas before about 2 minutes. To get the dial- up modem to kick-in...

Sometimes when I hit the start button it does nothing. This happens usually when I'm online. When it first started doing it, I would just shut down and restart. I found later that if I just wait a minute, it will finally come up. Thanks, nCt

I have done as instructed in the knowledge base but at the point of this recomadadition: "Click Plug and Play BIOS, and then click to select the Disable NVRAM / ESCD updates check box on the Settings tab. I do not have the 'plug and play BIOS option. I am cannot completley shut down my system. ...