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Slow Opening Start/Program Menu
Name: Damien Date: June 1, 2002 at 08:08:58 Pacific
Comment:
OK,Heres the stats: 266 Pentium w/256 MB Ram 2 x HDD ( 1 is 4 GB the other 3 GB) Win 98 I've noticed a lag when opening menu's off my start menu...you can do a physical count to 4 before program or accessory menus open. My system resources hover between 80 and 70. Registry errors? I've run Norton SystemWorks 2001...and found no errors.
2nd Problem: When booting up,just before Windows opens there is a black screen that has about 4 lines of:
Invalid line or directory not found Invalid line or directory not found Invalid line or directory not found Invalid line or directory not found Invalid line or directory not found
The second problem is caused by invalid entries in the config.sys or autoexec.bat files. If you post what is in them we can probably tell you what's wrong.
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