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My Computer & Properties
I am using W98. When I right click on My Computer on the Desktop and
then left click on Properties nothing happens. Any help will be appreciated. |
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On 21 Feb 2005 20:44:42 -0800, "mike" wrote:
I am using W98. When I right click on My Computer on the Desktop and then left click on Properties nothing happens. Any help will be appreciated. Mike, Find the SYSDM.CPL file in the Windows folder and d-click it, if it doesn't display the applet then it may be corrupt. If it's corrupt or missing try Start Run and enter SFC and extract just that one file from the Windows CD. You can check the other applets the same way. Using the SFC scan can cause problems and void any updates. Just extract the one file. Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, Bill Watt
wrote: On 21 Feb 2005 20:44:42 -0800, "mike" wrote: I am using W98. When I right click on My Computer on the Desktop and then left click on Properties nothing happens. Any help will be appreciated. Mike, Find the SYSDM.CPL file in the Windows folder and d-click it, if it doesn't display the applet then it may be corrupt. Bill, in Win98, it should be in the System folder, not the Windows folder. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html |
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Using the SFC scan can cause problems and void any updates. Just
extract the one file. Hello Bill, sorry for the butt-in, but I do it when I notice something I too am interested in. The thing here is my noticing the Caution implied when using SFC, just why is that? I'm seen it here before and read about it at sites, it always has the same vibe about it, Cautious. Is there a time when it can be used/run without fear, or is it something that perhaps microsoft should have been more wary about when including it with O/S's. thanks. regards Jane |
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"jane" wrote in message
... Using the SFC scan can cause problems and void any updates. Just extract the one file. I'm seen it here before and read about it at sites, it always has the same vibe about it, Cautious. Is there a time when it can be used/run without fear, or is it something that perhaps microsoft should have been more wary about when including it with O/S's. The point is that SFC's database is created when the OS is installed and not updated by any later installation including security updates etc.: so blindly following all its recommendations would undo correct and undesirable changes. But the control panel CPL files are different, (probably) never changed since Win98 was first created: so reinstalling those (as single filepaths) via SFC is reasonably safe. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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mike wrote:
I am using W98. When I right click on My Computer on the Desktop and then left click on Properties nothing happens. Any help will be appreciated. Can you get to system properties with Winkey + Pause/Break? -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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1. Unless you run SFC after each and every installation or update,
whatever, its database becomes obsolete. In most cases, running SFC should consist of telling it to update its database. 2. For various reasons, SFC occasionally flags files as corrupt when they are not. May be the way the file is constructed, or it may be that it simply doesn't fit into SFC's logic. 3. When restoring files using SFC, you have to know where to restore from. Say it flags a file that is corrupt or wrong version, but the file that is the *right* version isn't from the original installation CD, but rather, it's from the most recent installation of IE--restoring the file from the original installation files is the wrong choice. It should be restored, instead, from the IE installation files, usually stored in C:\Windows Updates Setup Files. And that's just one example in thousands. Restoring the wrong version of a file may allow a totally screwed up system to function again, but you would want to know where the most recent item came from so that you could reinstall it. I used to use the DLL Help Database as microsoft.com in order to determine which versions came form where and where to obtain replacements. Unfortunately, some idiot at Microsoft has totally screwed up the DLL Help Database. It is currently worthless, even for system that are still being fully supported. Also, in the original Windows 9x setup files, there are occasionally two versions of a file. One that is used during Setup and a different one that is installed later for normal Windows. SFC, when pointed to a directory, searches the directory itself, first, then searches inside CAB files. Because the files that are used in Setup get searched before the files that are eventually installed, the file that's used in Setup (not for normal Windows) gets chosen to restore. Most famous example is User.exe, because it's quite frequently flagged as "wrong" (sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't), and is replaced with the wrong version. SFC is like most other utilities that analyze your system. If you don't know enough to decide for yourself whether a prompt to "fix" something is the proper action to take, then you shouldn't use it at all. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "jane" wrote in message ... Using the SFC scan can cause problems and void any updates. Just extract the one file. Hello Bill, sorry for the butt-in, but I do it when I notice something I too am interested in. The thing here is my noticing the Caution implied when using SFC, just why is that? I'm seen it here before and read about it at sites, it always has the same vibe about it, Cautious. Is there a time when it can be used/run without fear, or is it something that perhaps microsoft should have been more wary about when including it with O/S's. thanks. regards Jane |
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It is one of my favorite tools.
I have always used it before and after installing anything from day one. Microsoft even recommended it for logging installations. Actually started with something similar Norton's had (AFAIR)in Win 3.1. Still looking for something similar for XP. But you better listen to the others. -- mae Have yse "jane" wrote in message ... | Using the SFC scan can cause problems and void any updates. Just | extract the one file. | | Hello Bill, | sorry for the butt-in, but I do it when I notice something I | too am interested in. | The thing here is my noticing the Caution implied when using SFC, | just why is that? | I'm seen it here before and read about it at sites, it always has the | same vibe about it, Cautious. | Is there a time when it can be used/run without fear, or is it something | that perhaps microsoft should have been more wary about | when including it with O/S's. | | thanks. | | regards Jane | | |
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:16:08 +1100, Alan Edwards
wrote: In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, Bill Watt wrote: On 21 Feb 2005 20:44:42 -0800, "mike" wrote: I am using W98. When I right click on My Computer on the Desktop and then left click on Properties nothing happens. Any help will be appreciated. Mike, Find the SYSDM.CPL file in the Windows folder and d-click it, if it doesn't display the applet then it may be corrupt. Bill, in Win98, it should be in the System folder, not the Windows folder. ...Alan Alan, Thanks for the heads up. I even found the file to be sure and copy/pasted the name then got the folder wrong. :-( Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:22:54 +1030, "jane"
wrote: Using the SFC scan can cause problems and void any updates. Just extract the one file. Hello Bill, sorry for the butt-in, but I do it when I notice something I too am interested in. The thing here is my noticing the Caution implied when using SFC, just why is that? I'm seen it here before and read about it at sites, it always has the same vibe about it, Cautious. Is there a time when it can be used/run without fear, or is it something that perhaps microsoft should have been more wary about when including it with O/S's. thanks. regards Jane Jane, I see you got your answer. Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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