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Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?



 
 
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Old March 9th 08, 05:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
DJW
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Default Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
all of it?
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Old March 9th 08, 05:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Don Phillipson[_5_]
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Default Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

"DJW" wrote in message
...

How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
same thing coming up during the startup process? . . . All that text

flies
by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
all of it?


Before Windows loads, the BIOS messages the
PC displays on screen can be halted and viewed
by the PAUSE button on your keyboard.

When Windows loads.
except only for the screen displays
"Windows is loading"
and/or
"Your settings are being updated,"
screen text is probably the contents of files
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, if they
exist and are not set @echooff. I.e. the
text (but not DOS responses, e.g. file not found)
can be read by any text editor. (And you can also
pipe DOS responses to another text file.)

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Old March 9th 08, 08:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Franc Zabkar
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Default Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT), DJW put
finger to keyboard and composed:

How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
all of it?


Go to Start Run and type SYSEDIT. Then compare the contents of
autoexec.bat and config.sys between your machines.

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Old March 9th 08, 10:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
dadiOH
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Default Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

DJW wrote:
How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts
with a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns
before finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of
text on black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture
screen. And I also noticed that after months of a certain text on
the screen one day it had some different information in text coming
up for a few days then I guess it went back to the way it had been.


All that text flies by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be
able to actually read all of it?


Press the Break key.

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Old March 11th 08, 12:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
AlmostBob
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Default Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

Push escape during the redisplay of the boot image, will show the underlying
DOS screen and you can see the message

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spybot http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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"DJW" wrote in message
...
How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
all of it?



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Old March 12th 08, 04:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
mm
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Default Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT), DJW wrote:

How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
all of it?


When processors were slower, it was easier to read a bit. When they
were much slower it was even easier.

With any fast moving thing, blinking ones eyes repeatedly is a way to
stop the action. Of course you miss the parts that go by when your
eyes are closed, but at least you may be able to read the parts that
are there when your eyes are open!!

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for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
 




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