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system hang by
Jessica
Alright ... here's the deal. Our Win98-powered Sony VIAO
is having issues with, what I'm learning is called,
system hang. The PC will intermittedly not respond during
applications (on-line and off-line) and the clock loses
time (I'm guessing b/c the system does not respond).
Upon restarting, the...
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Just a flash and it's gone -- startup by
FACE
(I said I was going to post this, I have hesitated because I can't be
definitive)
Since i don't know what it is, I can hardly describe it except to ask if
other's have seen this or if it may be indicative of a problem -- or know
how to capture the last part of the desktop startup phase.
Problem...
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November 10th 04 05:57 AM
by FACE
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FAT messed up by
Buffalo
I was downloading a Half-Life2 video from FilePlanet and it was around 600MB is
size and the download was instrumental in having my FAT changed or corrupted.
I have Win98SE on my C:\ drive partition (8GB) and I was downloading it to my 25
GB H:\ partition (both on the same 120GH HDD).
Somewhere...
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Cannot create shortcut here? by
FACE
Win98 SE
I have a desktop item that i am trying to move into my START list.
As i drag it through the lists it gives the horizontal line which basically
means that is where it would successfully drop. However when i reach the
place I want (the startup directory, fwiw) and release the mouse button...
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November 26th 04 06:24 AM
by FACE
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Windows Protection Error by
LCraft
Recently in the last 2 days, upon turning my computer on in the morning, I
get the Windows Protection error message, press any key to continue, which I
do and then computer shuts down. When rebooting i have to right click in
desk top, properties, and then reset my colors , my refresh rate back to...
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Defragmentising by
grobbers
Hi,
Hit a slight problem in that Drive C will not defragmentise. The process
starts but even after several hours it gets no further than 1%. Drive D works
fine.
Strange !! Would appreciate any help you knowledgeable people may be able to
offer.
Thanks in advance.
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Temp wont change drive by
Colin Mcgarry
Hello
I've added the lines
set tempdir=g:\temp
set tmpdir=g:\temp
to autoexec.bat but, on rebooting, the temp file is still C:\windows\temp.
g:\temp does exist.
any ideas?
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windows 98 se gone crazy, "find files box keep appearing" by
tim
dont know what happen today. on the desktop page, it will automatically
appear the this box "find all files", one after another without been prompted
to do so. anybody knows why is it s? thee is alos a box saying "provides a
place for u to type all or part of the name of the files u want to find....
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Systems Configuration Utility by
english
Hi: I removed a software program which had put two start up which I
previously disabled in Systems Configuration Utility - Startup. Those start
up programs are still listed there. I had thought one could delete them from
Regedit as they used to be listed under RunOnce or a similar value. I...
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Ad-Aware commentary.... by
FACE
This morning i woke up a slow computer. Everything was taking longer than
it should.
I bumped Ad-Aware, which I had last web-updated on Sunday and it said
"corrupt or missing file" for the main pattern searching file.
I went to Lavasoft update which said Ad-Aware 6 was no longer supported...
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Transparency of desktop icons? by
FACE
I am unsure if "transparent" is the correct word.
However, where the text of the desktop icons, by default, is a block showing
the desktop color, is there a way in Win 98 SE to remove that "block" of
desktop color so that the icon text is directly over the background, with
none of the desktop...
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November 9th 04 04:44 AM
by FACE
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Disc De-Fragmenter Doesn't Complete/Finish by
Don
Because my Windows98 on a Dell Notebook runs as slow as
molasses, I try to run the disk defragmenter in the
Accesories folder.
Problem: The disk defragmenter never completes its job.
The gauge will show that it's 95% complete or so and then
it drops back to 0 with a "change to disk message". Or...
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Startup & shut down difficulties by
Skip
On my Dell CPi 400 xt Windows 98SE (Bios Revsion A 15),
when booting up it evidently goes to a DOS screen(I
understand that is normal), but recently the following has
been displayed:
REM full line has been added by BayManager, do not remove:
\C:\windows\idechnl.exe
Please wait while setup updates...
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October 2nd 04 03:12 AM
by glee
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Maintenance Wizard.....defragmenter, cleanup disks not working by
bob
I did not defrag the computer for 6 months to a year.
The result is I can't get the maintenance tools
defregmenter ,cleanup disks etc to work. Therefore the
machine is very slow !!!
Can anyone assist please?
I have heard a number of suggestions like store my
favorites, files etc on CDs or Backup...
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windows98 by
pappaone
decided to reload windows98 and now it is asking for
product key. of course the computer is 6 yrs old and I
can not find the certificate of Authenticity. any ideas
what I should do in this case besides throwing it all
away and starting over with a new PC.
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What speed do i believe? by
David
alight i just built my new pc, and overclocked my althon
xp 3000+ to 2236mhz (fsb x multipler= 213 x 10.5). I have
CPU-z saying 2217mhz, Directx 9.0c saying 2.3ghz and
window's report tool saying 2158mhz.
I have no idea which to believe.
could anyone help?
my chipset is VIA kt600 (mobo is kv7).
i...
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Invisible task? by
David Collins
I seem to have performance degradation so I bring up the
system monitor and sure enough, there's something taking a
constant 50% of the machine. Curiously, wintop.exe shows
nothing. Mouse activity causes usage to dip (weird).
Eliminating tasks one by one using 3 finger salute fails
to locate...
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January 30th 05 04:21 AM
by PeteV
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CDROM performance setting by
cpu
I have asked about this in another section Windows 98 general. I thought I
posted the problem here to get more answers.
Problem: I am having problem setting CDROM optimize access pattern.
(right click My computer-Properties-Performance-File System - CDROM-
CD-ROM optimize access...
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October 15th 04 01:29 AM
by cpu
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Cpu upgrade #2 TO dadiOH by
SFB - KB3MM
What did you download from Intel?
Bios upgrade ?
"Anthonage" wrote in message
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Don't get so wound up. This happens a lot in ngs.
I can't believe I'm responding to the same person who critized my post.
Why
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Question on fonts by
geezer
I have a friend asking me about fonts that he says show as a top hat.
Can someone tell me what class of font these are?
Thanks
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