BTW, nice looking daughter. I have a Jennifer too. She's in graduate school (for environmental policy, whatever that is).
The thing is, scandisk never told me the problems were invalid dates. As I posted way early in this thread, the messages were all the same...
PROBLEM SOLVED!!! Turns out the incorrect date was the problem all along. I just ran scandskw.exe and it found no errors at all. Thanks to...
OK, I'll give that a try. Just a wild shot in the dark, but this morning I found purely by accident that the date on the pc was set wrong...
This was also suggested (and tried) earlier in this thread. It does not work - the computer boots normally.
As I noted early on in this thread, holding down the Ctrl key has no effect - the pc boots normally (except the programs in my Start folder don't...
Well, no joy yet. Intent on following the instructions to the letter, I shut off the computer. I turned it back on and began tapping the F8 key...
OK, I think I understand now. I really appreciate all the help - I'm sure you're exasperated with me by now. I will follow your instructions...
I guess I'm not understanding what is meant by "booting to DOS." I have been selecting Start/Shutdown/Restart in DOS Mode. If I try to boot...
I have done all the things you suggested earlier for deep clean. However, when I try to boot into safe mode using Win /d:m it doesn't work. The...
I also tried this morning to run scandskw.exe from safe mode, but now there's new issue - my computer won't go into safe mode! I tried first by...
Yes, i ran scandisk from DOS, including a full surface scan. It found no errors. I have tried several of the folders shown as being damaged, and...
Whitphil: Thanks for the suggestion. However, the error in BKUPDLLS that scandisk is reporting is just the first of 56 such errors it's finding....
Before discovering Diskeeper, I was using ME defrag. I defrag every 2 or 3 days, and Diskeeper is a LOT faster than ME ever was for me.
mflynn: I didn't say I never defrag, only that I don't use Windows defrag. I use Diskeeper.
Thanks for the suggestions. I may yet try them! I don't use IE at all, or Windows defrag, so some of the folders suggested to delete I don't...
Running Win 98 (first edition). Today when I ran scandisk, I got many (more than 3 dozen) alerts that some file or folder, or the information...
Right click on the filename and select Properties. Uncheck the box named Read Only.
Well, there must be a way. I just tried it, and I don't get that annoying message - the selected text is just deleted. I'll root around some and...
You're welcome. Please advise if that works.
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