Click Start Run. type:
sysedit
|Click OK|

Click the autoexec.bat window in sysedit, select the entire text of the file and
copy, then paste into a reply here.
Click the config.sys window in sysedit, select the entire text of the file and copy,
then paste into a reply here.

To remove the two C:\'s stacked up when you start up, make sure there are no blank
lines in autoexec.bat, at the end. Open with sysedit, click the mouse pointer near
the bottom of the autoexec.bat window, and backspace till you are at the end of the
very last written line, so there are no blank lines at the end of the file.

If the file is empty, backspace all the way to the beginning of the file so the
cursor is all the way top left.

Save the changes, by clicking File Save.

Do the same in config.sys, save, and exit sysedit.

You may still find there is a delay during startup for another reason. Does your
computer have a network interface...a Network Interface card (NIC) or integrated
Ethernet port? If so, is it connected to a network of any kind....is there a
network cable attached to it connecting it to anything else?

If no, then you probably need to configure your networking settings to stop Windows
from looking for a non-existent network at startup.

When a Win98 system is not connected to any networks and the NIC is configured to
obtain an IP address automatically, you can assign the NIC a static IP address so
that it does not try to contact a DHCP server at startup:
192.168.0.1 (or actually 192.168.0.2 may be better), subnet mask 255.255.255.0

So, if you are NOT connected to any network, do this:
Click Start Settings Control Panel Network Configuration tab.
Click to select TCP/IP bound to the Ethernet/Network adapter, in the list of
components.
Click the Properties button.
Click the IP Address tab Specify
Assign an IP address of: 192.168.0.2
and a subnet mask of: 255.255.255.0
Click OK all the way out, and reboot when prompted.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/


"arnymars" wrote in message
...
When I startup the PC, at the end of boot process it appears to hunge looking
for something about 3 min then printing two times on the screen: c:/ , and
then starts normally. What do these c:/ mean - it can't find a previously
refenrenced and then uninstalled program? How I can find out, why it hangs
for some time, what it is looking for or checking without visibly accessing
HD?