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Unable to complete a boot-up
If you are getting the WIN98 splash screen and then a black screen with flashing cursor then you may have trouble with your vga card turning from vga 16 color (splash screen) to whatever resolution and color depth settings that you have. One trick that may work for you is to edit you msdos.sys...- robb
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Print a list of files from Explorer?
Theres a shareware proggy called "Dirprint" that resides in your right click dialog box that makes it a breeze.<br><br>Robb- robb
- Post #7
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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system resources. Some programs eat up more than others. Bloatware.
Quoting from the Win98 bible the system resources in win 98 are related to the GDI.EXE and the USER.EXE and are 64k in size.Graphics software with intense GUI's will chew up these 2 heaps very quickly and the only way to retrieve your 64k heap space is to reboot.If you wish to be rid of these 2...- robb
- Post #3
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Defrag fails to work with hard drive
I have 2 X 6.4 gig hard drives on my system. My 'C' drive defrags fine with the option of 'make programs run faster'<br>but when trying to run defrag on my 'd' drive it comes up with the message telling me to run Scandisk. I run a thorough session of scan disk then try defrag again and again I...- robb
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
