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May 17th 04, 07:36 AM
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Trying to help a friend out who has Win98 SE. For some
reason yet unknown the start button is gone. The task bar is still there. BUt programs that are reduced to the task bar won't open again from that location. I'm not a complete idiot when working with windows, but I know no way to remove the start button period. I'm guessing that it may have something to do with a virus but I can't for the life of me figure out what virus might cause this. I hate to even think it but it looks like an fdisk is in order. If we have to we will, but does anyone else have any ideas? 
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May 17th 04, 09:03 AM
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On Sun, 16 May 2004 23:36:05 -0700, "Wolvie145"
wrote: Trying to help a friend out who has Win98 SE. For some reason yet unknown the start button is gone. The task bar is still there. BUt programs that are reduced to the task bar won't open again from that location. I'm not a complete idiot when working with windows, but I know no way to remove the start button period. I'm guessing that it may have something to do with a virus but I can't for the life of me figure out what virus might cause this. I hate to even think it but it looks like an fdisk is in order. If we have to we will, but does anyone else have any ideas? Can you do WIN+E (WIN = That's the little key that has/may have Start and or a Windows flag on it) ? Or try CTRL+ESC ? Does the menu pop up? If it can pop up, try also WIN+R , then type SFC for System File Checker , you may want to have your 98SE installation file handy so that it can extract the needed files, unless such can be found in [ C:\Windows\Options\Cabs ]. -- Sincerely, Andrew H. Carter
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May 17th 04, 04:42 PM
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-----Original Message----- On Sun, 16 May 2004 23:36:05 -0700, "Wolvie145" wrote: Trying to help a friend out who has Win98 SE. For some reason yet unknown the start button is gone. The task bar is still there. BUt programs that are reduced to the task bar won't open again from that location. I'm not a complete idiot when working with windows, but I know no way to remove the start button period. I'm guessing that it may have something to do with a virus but I can't for the life of me figure out what virus might cause this. I hate to even think it but it looks like an fdisk is in order. If we have to we will, but does anyone else have any ideas? Can you do WIN+E (WIN = That's the little key that has/may have Start and or a Windows flag on it) ? Or try CTRL+ESC ? Does the menu pop up? If it can pop up, try also WIN+R , then type SFC for System File Checker , you may want to have your 98SE installation file handy so that it can extract the needed files, unless such can be found in [ C:\Windows\Options\Cabs ]. -- Sincerely, Andrew H. Carter We've tried several ways to get the menu to open with no success. Is there another way to get into the SFC? I'd like to run that. .
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May 17th 04, 05:24 PM
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Double click My Computer and go to Windows/system folder--double click
sfc.exe -- 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 wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- On Sun, 16 May 2004 23:36:05 -0700, "Wolvie145" wrote: Trying to help a friend out who has Win98 SE. For some reason yet unknown the start button is gone. The task bar is still there. BUt programs that are reduced to the task bar won't open again from that location. I'm not a complete idiot when working with windows, but I know no way to remove the start button period. I'm guessing that it may have something to do with a virus but I can't for the life of me figure out what virus might cause this. I hate to even think it but it looks like an fdisk is in order. If we have to we will, but does anyone else have any ideas? Can you do WIN+E (WIN = That's the little key that has/may have Start and or a Windows flag on it) ? Or try CTRL+ESC ? Does the menu pop up? If it can pop up, try also WIN+R , then type SFC for System File Checker , you may want to have your 98SE installation file handy so that it can extract the needed files, unless such can be found in [ C:\Windows\Options\Cabs ]. -- Sincerely, Andrew H. Carter We've tried several ways to get the menu to open with no success. Is there another way to get into the SFC? I'd like to run that. .
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May 24th 04, 06:14 PM
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Use My Computer to go to C:\WINDOWS\system\sfc.exe
-----Original Message----- Trying to help a friend out who has Win98 SE. For some reason yet unknown the start button is gone. The task bar is still there. BUt programs that are reduced to the task bar won't open again from that location. I'm not a complete idiot when working with windows, but I know no way to remove the start button period. I'm guessing that it may have something to do with a virus but I can't for the life of me figure out what virus might cause this. I hate to even think it but it looks like an fdisk is in order. If we have to we will, but does anyone else have any ideas? .
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