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| Feel like every time you turn on the old confuser it's like pulling the handle on a slot machine? It ain't suposed to be like that!!!! |
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| Dear Dan, When I turn on my computer (it's a windows 98) I get strange things accross the screen. I can't seem to make it work the way I want it to. Sincerely, Young and yearning, in CA. |
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| Your system is of the windows 98 persuasion your are in luck. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dear Young and yearning, Don't lose your cool yet. As you may or may not know your system has a help section right on the start bar. Click on this and see if the problem is there. The help file will tell you how to correct the problem. Don't work? OK here is another way to check the crazy thing. Go to the programs move over to the accessories go down to System tools look down the list ....see system information? click on this.now look up and see the tools bar. Click on the tools and then move to system file checker. click start and let the thing do it's work. I f you have any problems the checker will ask if you want to restore the file to the original state. Please be aware that you will need the disk with the original file on it. SHORTCUT Go to Start....go to run....type SFC...hit enter...and run . Let the program check your PC.... Good luck! Dan Langan |
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| Computer slowing down? Your system may be running as much as 20 programs in the backround. Go to the RUN from the start bar type MSCONFIG and then click OK go to STARTUP see all the checked boxes?? Most of that stuff is junk, look at the name of the file to the right of the check box and filename, DONT unchech the systray ccApp ccRegVfy or anything that looks like it would belong to a thing like system, your anti virus or printer.but things like real player AOL tray winapp can be unchecked this should speed thing up. |
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