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Windows character map crashing
Name: zarkov Date: November 30, 2001 at 09:36:55 Pacific
Comment:
Hello. I have a windows 95 machine that has a problem with character map. I can open the program, but I can't select any of the characters. Also, when I close the program it always performs an illegal operation. Tried replacing charmap.exe with one I know to work, and it does the same. I am convinced the problem is elsewhere in windows but I don't know what i'm looking for. It could be anything really as far as i'm concerned. Anyone out there have any ideas? I'm all out. Thanks.
Name: Krystyna Date: December 2, 2001 at 21:21:40 Pacific
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Hi Zarkov I would be lost without Character Map - I use it all the time ! Try a scandisk and defrag of your hard drive. Then rename the existing file to charmap.bad, and then install a new copy of charmap.exe so that it gets put on a different spot on the hard drive. Krystyna
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Response Number 2
Name: Fred Date: January 10, 2002 at 15:08:28 Pacific
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I am encountering the same problem. Did you ever get this issue resolved? If yes, what did you do?
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