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Hanging at Boot Up
Name: jennifer Date: December 23, 2002 at 11:01:51 Pacific OS: WIN98 SE CPU/Ram: P3 128RAM
Comment:
When booting up win98se, all acts like its going to work and then all i get is my desktop with no icons or taskbar. in order to boot up correctly i have to restart in safemode and then restart again and it boots up fine...any suggestions?
Name: Tassie Date: December 23, 2002 at 11:50:55 Pacific
Reply:
Jennifer When your desktop appears, click 'control-alt-delete' this may indicate which program is not responding then post back for more help...
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave C Date: December 23, 2002 at 11:52:11 Pacific
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Is this sudden, or has it been acting up for a while now?
If this is something that has started int eh past day or two, then try booting to a DOS prompt (tap F6 when it says "Loading Windows", or use a boot disk)
When you get tothe C:/wondows> prompt, (Or whatever it says on your system, it doesn't really matter) type SCANREG /RESTORE and hit enter. Then choose a date from before these symptoms appeared.
Once it is finished, reboot ansd see if that helped at all.
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Response Number 3
Name: cyber Date: December 23, 2002 at 12:29:03 Pacific
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Try disabling the startup programs in msconfig. This would help to some extend... Also try putting up the below lines in the file config.sys:
This would help..... u to have a better startup....
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Response Number 4
Name: Jennifer Date: December 24, 2002 at 10:59:34 Pacific
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Hi. This has been happening ever since I installed 98se from a clean install. when i push ctrl+alt+del at start up, the taskmanager (or whatever you call it) appears but there is nothing there. i get the msgsrv32 not responding alot of the times. i'm going to try each of your tips one by one and i will let you know.
thank you!!!!
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Response Number 5
Name: jennifer Date: December 24, 2002 at 11:04:44 Pacific
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Cyber:
What do you mean "try putting up the below lines?"
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