Hi,
I want to thank all of you for the advice. It still sounds very confusing.
I'm
going to try to find someone to help me so it may be a while till you hear
back
from me. My computer is an emachine 600 I X and is getting old. This is the
first time in 6 years that I had problems with it. I have a restore CD
(Bootable CD)
Ver 2.1 (whatever that means!) Today is my birthday so I'm going to
celebrate!Thanks again,
Elizabeth


"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"Elizabeth" wrote in message
...

I printed the information you refer to but it is related to windows 95 and
I am running windows 98 SE. I'm a senior citizen and not very savy on the
computer and with blank buttons I don't know where to go.

Do the procedures in the article Ron linked to. If that doesn't fix
everything, post back.

Another route to the same goal is to put your
Windows98 CD into the CD drive and
/ START / RUN / SFC.EXE
which is the System File Checker.
You can select it (via checkbox) to
EXTRACT ONE FILE FROM INSTALLATION DISK
and type in the checkbox
MARLETT

This will work on two conditions
1. The display is currently good enough to see
what you are doing. It seems your Marlett font
file has been mangled and this is a component
of Windows' screen writing.
2. When the Operating System was first installed
SFC made a list of essential System Files and
where they came from. It can therefore be used
to Restore files on this list to the way they were.

Unfortunately SFC does not update itself when
you run upgrades or corrective patches. but
this ought not to affect the Marlett fonnt file.

When done, reboot, and post the results here.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)