Hi Lightforce, jboy, The Count, hello everyone Fast typing Count. :-) Either way should take care of it. Best Regards, Mesich

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Hi all Looks like an interesting app - thanks Count. Although I'm starting to move away from 95 (probably one of the last) I still have it running on several machines - scanreg is such a lifesaver in 98, its absence in 95 is a pretty glaring one. Thanks for the additional info Mesich. Tech Support: "I need you to boot the computer." Customer: THUMP! Pause. "No, that didn't help."

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Had a quick look at your link and may have misunderstood the situation. It seemed to me that this part was a case of just copying over scanreg.exe to a W95 machine. I did this once on a Compaq W95 and it some stage it got into a mess trying to restore the previous good registry "using W98 pholosophy". I think this is a safer bet. Filch the first three files from a W98 machine: scanreg.exe -- goes in Command folder scanreg.ini -- goes in Windows folder scanregw.exe -- goes in Windows folder scanreg.reg -- create the following file and merge it into your registry: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "ScanRegistry"="C:\\WINDOWS\\scanregw.exe /autorun" Note when you first add it to the PC you won't have any restore point to go back to. Derek.W

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Sounds like you inherited an old machine as a going concern with problems unknown. Personally I think it is a waste of time trying to fix these problems and that you should reinstall winodw. My advice would be to reinstall win95 or if possible win98se using 98lite so you can use the win95 shell. This means you get all the driver advantages of win98se but with the speed of win95. This will solve all your problems or my name ain't Jed.

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My guess is your registry is dirty big time. The 1st thing i'd do is run RegSeeker 1.35b to make sure your registry is clean. If you can't run scandisk or defrag, you probably have some program running in the background preventing it. In regseeker again, open the Startup Entries option, and look at what is starting along with windows. Systray and your anti-virus should show-up, and you firewall if you use one. Most of whatever else you see you should delete (can be put back easily from most useful programs). The less runs at startup, the easier scandisk and defrag will work. Like jboy said in resp #1, use the ME defrag if you aren't already. Should work now! HTH. Lightspeed. http://oldfiles.org.uk/lightspeed/main.html http://oldfiles.org.uk/lightspeed/lightspeed95.html

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Mesich Ooopsy, my #9 was meant for your eyes (sorry I should have said so). Thought it might be a safer alternative to the link you gave (assuming I understood it correctly) Derek.W

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Hello everyone, Derek, Your method in response #9 is definitly the way to go as it will create backups if one should need to perform a restore in the future. For just wanting to run the scanreg /fix command one only needs the scanreg.exe file. Your method is definitly a better alternative. Best Regards, Mesich

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Hi Mesich & All Fine, thanks Mesich. That was the problem I had tho. It ran scanreg /fix fine using just the file, then one fine day it couldn't fix, so it automatically tried to "restore" instead using W98 ideas. It then got into a glorious old muddle, then failed to boot to Windows. If I hadn't had my own registries already saved (batch file operated copy/paste) it might have been a pig to sort out. Hopefully the approach in #9 sorts this. Derek.W

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Hello everyone, Thanks for the additional info Derek. I am setting up Win95 on a older laptop for a friend later this week and shall do just as you stated in response #9. I hope all is well with you and yours. Best Regards, Mesich

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Okey doke mesich, thx for response. Derek.W

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