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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...
January 10th 05 01:49 PM
by Tony Erwood. Shetland UK. Go to last post
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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...
November 10th 04 05:57 AM
by FACE Go to last post
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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...
November 18th 04 09:40 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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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...
November 26th 04 06:24 AM
by FACE Go to last post
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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...
December 1st 04 05:55 PM
by L/P[_4_] Go to last post
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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.
December 4th 04 08:24 PM
by Bert Kinney Go to last post
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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?
December 6th 04 11:53 PM
by Bert Kinney Go to last post
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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....
December 13th 04 06:59 AM
by NoParlez Go to last post
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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...
January 8th 05 05:18 PM
by english Go to last post
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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...
November 10th 04 04:08 PM
by SFB - KB3MM Go to last post
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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...
November 9th 04 04:44 AM
by FACE Go to last post
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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...
October 9th 04 07:36 PM
by No Name Go to last post
8 1,820
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...
October 2nd 04 03:12 AM
by glee Go to last post
8 1,257
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...
October 3rd 04 02:27 PM
by Buffalo Go to last post
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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.
October 3rd 04 09:55 PM
by No Name Go to last post
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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...
October 7th 04 09:26 PM
by No Name Go to last post
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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...
January 30th 05 04:21 AM
by PeteV Go to last post
8 1,238
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...
October 15th 04 01:29 AM
by cpu Go to last post
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Cpu upgrade #2 TO dadiOH by SFB - KB3MM
What did you download from Intel? Bios upgrade ? "Anthonage" wrote in message ... 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
November 5th 04 01:34 AM
by Harri85274 Go to last post
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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
February 2nd 05 10:09 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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