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    You still need to verify the CMOS battery...

    You still need to verify the CMOS battery voltage, they can die in the box just as easily as anywhere else. Volt/ohm meter time.

    Just removing the battery for a set amount of time might not do...
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    My apologizes for old thread posting but it just...

    My apologizes for old thread posting but it just might be important to somebody to learn that MS still has IE files on their servers and they are not very busy these days. For IE 6.00 SP1 get this:...
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    You might try removing the Power Management...

    You might try removing the Power Management Controller from the Device Mangler under System Devices and rebooting to allow Windows to redetect and reinstall it, WITH the standby option showing up.
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    THIS has always traditionally been known as the...

    THIS has always traditionally been known as the Corporate site.
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/corporate.asp

    Please don't redefine the word is for us.

    This is the Catalog site....
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    Back and Forward buttons were a goody from the...

    Back and Forward buttons were a goody from the Windows Active Desktop Update so it's very appropriate that re-installing IE might be a fix. BUT you'll need...
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    Clicking on Stop also sets you up for a repeat...

    Clicking on Stop also sets you up for a repeat performance at the next boot! There are two bits in each boot record that set scandisk to go at boot. One is just the short version of scandisk, the...
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    Votan - Don't give up. If you make a 32k file of...

    Votan - Don't give up. If you make a 32k file of zeros and copy that over the top of Cookies\index.dat file at bootup Windows will adopt it rather than just recreate a new index.dat file which BTW...
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    It may be that your tech didn't know that MS shut...

    It may be that your tech didn't know that MS shut off MSN messenger to force all users to download a new MSN messenger that has been patched for security reasons. The new MSN messenger requires that...
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    Instead of version 1.1, you might want to try...

    Instead of version 1.1, you might want to try version 2? The switches below will force it to at least renew it's own files which is almost as good as uninstalling and reinstalling?

    InstMsiA.exe...
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    BEFORE indicates to me that Ghost is loading with...

    BEFORE indicates to me that Ghost is loading with switches and I've had the 'wrong' switches added for me, by Ghost, so you might want to check that angle out? I can see where you can't go from/to...
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    Bart's ScsiTool can format multiple drives at one...

    Bart's ScsiTool can format multiple drives at one time but this would be the low level type of format where you can change the byte count of the sectors from 512 to ??? if you want - I don't think...
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    Last Norton I could live with was NAV2000, but it...

    Last Norton I could live with was NAV2000, but it quit updating itself early this year, so I got System Works 2002 which exibits your symptoms. I believe it is due to Script problems and in...
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    I don't know the why of it but actually setting a...

    I don't know the why of it but actually setting a DMA buffer helps at least on my low end system. I don't know XP, but for 9x it's Device Mangler|System Devices|Direct Memory Access...
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    Adaptec uninstall is some of the worst written...

    Adaptec uninstall is some of the worst written code there is, what happens with my 3.5 is that if I remove Adaptec QuickSync via Add/Remove Programs, it removes everything including Easy CD Creator,...
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    It often helps when using rename operations to...

    It often helps when using rename operations to change the extension at the same time. eg

    ren bob*.txt bob%date%.ttt
    ren bob*.ttt bob*.txt

    The Batch Masters over at alt.msdos.batch could get...
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    And then there's Bart's DiskTool that fits on a...

    And then there's Bart's DiskTool that fits on a floppy, does drives over 8 gig and will test drives's all day along with a full erase (zero wipe) option.

    Bart's Utilities page - DiskTool wiper...
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    Give Bart's Disktool a try. It will fit on a...

    Give Bart's Disktool a try. It will fit on a floppy, does drives over 8 gig and will also test the drive for problems. Use the full erase option in the test choice area to wipe the whole drive. No...
  18. Thread: CD Key?

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    Thanks for that info - then the CD key is not...

    Thanks for that info - then the CD key is not even used in win98 as the product key is the only one required for me to type in to install win98. And its found on the back of the CD case - so pardon...
  19. Thread: CD Key?

    by melee5
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    Copy the lines between the dashed lines to the...

    Copy the lines between the dashed lines to the clipboard and paste them into Notepad:

    ========================================================================
    var WSHShell =...
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    If it's the one you got at Windows Update site...

    If it's the one you got at Windows Update site 'Critical Update Notification' (CUN), you should have that listed in Add/Remove Programs so that you can un-install it there.
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    If you don't mind 'branded' versions of ie you...

    If you don't mind 'branded' versions of ie you may already have a drawer full on your AOL frisbees, Office install CDs and I've heard magzine CDs (which I've never seen). Unbranding the versions can...
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    Since I do use a 5 1/4" drive regularly I thought...

    Since I do use a 5 1/4" drive regularly I thought I should chime in. I use win98se so can't really speak to win2k problems knowledgably but I believe I still have some things to contribute.

    First...
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    The fact that you can boot to a C:\> prompt...

    The fact that you can boot to a C:\> prompt indicates that you in fact do have a valid command.com file and that it has loaded. What is more likely to be your problem is a fudged path statement. To...
  24. Thread: ie 6 SP1 setup

    by melee5
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    I'd try to update cabinet.dll, perhaps its...

    I'd try to update cabinet.dll, perhaps its mangled somehow. My w98se version is 1.00.601.4. Layout.inf, layout1.inf, etc. will list which .cab file it is to be found in, use WinZip to extract it...
  25. Any way to involve my cache while browsing?

    On each and every page, I have to re-download the Windrivers logo.gif and every other image. Any way to get my Temporary Internet Files involved such that they can pop up from there instead? Some...
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