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March 11th 06, 07:08 PM
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programs missing
Recently had my computer off for 10 days. When trying to boot up had a lot
of problems. Finally got it running and found that several programs were missing like MS word, MSworks. Windows media player wouldn't work. CD burner wouldn't work. Maybe others I don't know about yet. Had to reinstall these programs. Now found out that my config.sys file is missing. Can't use it in Start, Run,. How can I get my config.sys file back? Anyone have an idea what happened? McAffee doesn't show any infected files. -- thanks in advance pamcody 
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March 11th 06, 10:37 PM
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Config.sys is not needed by W98--other programs may use it. I don't know
what you expect to happen trying to run it from Start, Run but nothing is going to happen other than an error message. As to what happened--I suspect that the registry got clobbered and a really old one may have been restored. At this point, the first thing I would do is determine what brand of hard drive you have, go to the maker's web site and download their diagnostic software. It runs from a floppy disk and will tell you the health of your drive. If it is OK and there are no other problems, I have no further suggestions. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Recently had my computer off for 10 days. When trying to boot up had a lot of problems. Finally got it running and found that several programs were missing like MS word, MSworks. Windows media player wouldn't work. CD burner wouldn't work. Maybe others I don't know about yet. Had to reinstall these programs. Now found out that my config.sys file is missing. Can't use it in Start, Run,. How can I get my config.sys file back? Anyone have an idea what happened? McAffee doesn't show any infected files. -- thanks in advance pamcody
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March 12th 06, 12:36 AM
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Thankyou I will try that.
I used to use Start, run, config.sys and was able to select which programs ran at start up. There was a whole list of programs under start up which I could select or unselect. Now when I went into Sys.edit the window that should have the config.sys items is completely blank. Would it be on my original Win 98 disk? -- thanks in advance pamcody "Ron Badour" wrote: Config.sys is not needed by W98--other programs may use it. I don't know what you expect to happen trying to run it from Start, Run but nothing is going to happen other than an error message. As to what happened--I suspect that the registry got clobbered and a really old one may have been restored. At this point, the first thing I would do is determine what brand of hard drive you have, go to the maker's web site and download their diagnostic software. It runs from a floppy disk and will tell you the health of your drive. If it is OK and there are no other problems, I have no further suggestions. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Recently had my computer off for 10 days. When trying to boot up had a lot of problems. Finally got it running and found that several programs were missing like MS word, MSworks. Windows media player wouldn't work. CD burner wouldn't work. Maybe others I don't know about yet. Had to reinstall these programs. Now found out that my config.sys file is missing. Can't use it in Start, Run,. How can I get my config.sys file back? Anyone have an idea what happened? McAffee doesn't show any infected files. -- thanks in advance pamcody
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March 12th 06, 05:10 AM
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"pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message
... Thankyou I will try that. I used to use Start, run, config.sys and was able to select which programs ran at start up. There was a whole list of programs under start up which I could select or unselect. Your remembrance is incorrect.....what you type in the Run box to get what you describe is msconfig Now when I went into Sys.edit the window that should have the config.sys items is completely blank. Would it be on my original Win 98 disk? No, as was already explained, config.sys is not needed by Windows. That means that unless a program creates the file for some particular entry it needs, or you create the file yourself for some particular entry that you need for a program, config.sys either will not exist or will be blank. That is how it should be.....it's normal. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Ron Badour" wrote: Config.sys is not needed by W98--other programs may use it. I don't know what you expect to happen trying to run it from Start, Run but nothing is going to happen other than an error message. As to what happened--I suspect that the registry got clobbered and a really old one may have been restored. At this point, the first thing I would do is determine what brand of hard drive you have, go to the maker's web site and download their diagnostic software. It runs from a floppy disk and will tell you the health of your drive. If it is OK and there are no other problems, I have no further suggestions. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Recently had my computer off for 10 days. When trying to boot up had a lot of problems. Finally got it running and found that several programs were missing like MS word, MSworks. Windows media player wouldn't work. CD burner wouldn't work. Maybe others I don't know about yet. Had to reinstall these programs. Now found out that my config.sys file is missing. Can't use it in Start, Run,. How can I get my config.sys file back? Anyone have an idea what happened? McAffee doesn't show any infected files. -- thanks in advance pamcody
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March 12th 06, 05:48 AM
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You are absolutely right. Thankyou so much.
I just turned 70 last week and I guess it's beginning to be apparent. MSconfig works great. Forgive the waste of time -- Thanks pamcody "glee" wrote: "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Thankyou I will try that. I used to use Start, run, config.sys and was able to select which programs ran at start up. There was a whole list of programs under start up which I could select or unselect. Your remembrance is incorrect.....what you type in the Run box to get what you describe is msconfig Now when I went into Sys.edit the window that should have the config.sys items is completely blank. Would it be on my original Win 98 disk? No, as was already explained, config.sys is not needed by Windows. That means that unless a program creates the file for some particular entry it needs, or you create the file yourself for some particular entry that you need for a program, config.sys either will not exist or will be blank. That is how it should be.....it's normal. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Ron Badour" wrote: Config.sys is not needed by W98--other programs may use it. I don't know what you expect to happen trying to run it from Start, Run but nothing is going to happen other than an error message. As to what happened--I suspect that the registry got clobbered and a really old one may have been restored. At this point, the first thing I would do is determine what brand of hard drive you have, go to the maker's web site and download their diagnostic software. It runs from a floppy disk and will tell you the health of your drive. If it is OK and there are no other problems, I have no further suggestions. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Recently had my computer off for 10 days. When trying to boot up had a lot of problems. Finally got it running and found that several programs were missing like MS word, MSworks. Windows media player wouldn't work. CD burner wouldn't work. Maybe others I don't know about yet. Had to reinstall these programs. Now found out that my config.sys file is missing. Can't use it in Start, Run,. How can I get my config.sys file back? Anyone have an idea what happened? McAffee doesn't show any infected files. -- thanks in advance pamcody
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March 12th 06, 08:19 PM
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Well, Happy Birthday to You! My Significant Other turns 56 a week from today.
No waste of time involved. Lots of folks post, asking, "what's the name of that utility in Windows again....." -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... You are absolutely right. Thankyou so much. I just turned 70 last week and I guess it's beginning to be apparent. MSconfig works great. Forgive the waste of time -- Thanks pamcody "glee" wrote: "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Thankyou I will try that. I used to use Start, run, config.sys and was able to select which programs ran at start up. There was a whole list of programs under start up which I could select or unselect. Your remembrance is incorrect.....what you type in the Run box to get what you describe is msconfig Now when I went into Sys.edit the window that should have the config.sys items is completely blank. Would it be on my original Win 98 disk? No, as was already explained, config.sys is not needed by Windows. That means that unless a program creates the file for some particular entry it needs, or you create the file yourself for some particular entry that you need for a program, config.sys either will not exist or will be blank. That is how it should be.....it's normal. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Ron Badour" wrote: Config.sys is not needed by W98--other programs may use it. I don't know what you expect to happen trying to run it from Start, Run but nothing is going to happen other than an error message. As to what happened--I suspect that the registry got clobbered and a really old one may have been restored. At this point, the first thing I would do is determine what brand of hard drive you have, go to the maker's web site and download their diagnostic software. It runs from a floppy disk and will tell you the health of your drive. If it is OK and there are no other problems, I have no further suggestions. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "pamcody" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Recently had my computer off for 10 days. When trying to boot up had a lot of problems. Finally got it running and found that several programs were missing like MS word, MSworks. Windows media player wouldn't work. CD burner wouldn't work. Maybe others I don't know about yet. Had to reinstall these programs. Now found out that my config.sys file is missing. Can't use it in Start, Run,. How can I get my config.sys file back? Anyone have an idea what happened? McAffee doesn't show any infected files. -- thanks in advance pamcody
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