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JillC, What this sounds like is the regestry files are stiing in bad sectors on the hard drive. Boot up with the boot disk, run scandisk and when prompted, perform a full scan in which it will check the integrety of the hard drive. If there is any problems with bad sectors, it should find them...

You won't have to change any settings. just dial into aol and double click the internet explorer icon and it will launch. If there is a problem with IE which is causing the aol browser not to function properly, it will become more apparant. I say this because aol uses the same settings that IE...

Allow me to clairfy, AOL is the ISP and in versions 3.0 and later will allow the AOL user to access either by using the AOL supplied Web Browser AS WELL AS INTERNET EXPLORER which CAME with the Operating System. I have used AOL for several years that way, because I hate having to go through...

It could also be a bad controller on the motherboard. I had a system, PII 266 that ran fine, but when tried to install new hardware, it would take over 30 mintues to build an information data base as well as freeze up about half way. Then when I wiped the drive clean, it would not load, XP at...

I have had a similar problem, but instead of defaulting to "never dial" it defaulted to "always dial". After updating the latest Service Pack for IE 6 and changing the setting in Interent Options and rebooting, the problem has not come back. fedto [cheers]

Can you access the web by using Internet Explorer that came with windows? The Aol browser is tied in with Windows IE and if one cannot access the other usually cannot access. It should give you a better idea of what is going on. Let us now what happens when you try the windows IE browser. fedto...

Have you tried checking the properties of the folder? It may be set so that it cannot be deleted. Right click the folder and go to properties. Check there and under the security tab. See if you can change it then delete it. fedto [cheers]

I'm assuming that when you stated that device manager shows that it's working, that you are refering to the linksys nick card? If it is showing good in device manager, check out your network settings and see if the linksys show's up there. IF it is not, then it is safe to assume that it is...

you can obtain a boot up disk from download.com, http://www.download.com. For the os, choose 98 or me, since you will need cdrom supprot and the windows 95 boot disk does not contain drivers for it. I sounds like iexplorer is totally cooked and a reinstall should fix this problem. [cheers] fedto

Something else to consider is the possiblility that the paging file may be full. Working on a helpdesk I have seen this many times. See if you can get into safemode, if you can do a search for *.tmp and delete any that are found. Empty the recycling bin. Also go into internet options in control...

run system file checker and have it check the system files for alterations. It may help. click on start>run in open type sfc. Then click on scan files. It will go through and check the files. If it finds one that has been altered, it will prompt extract that file, click on yes, but click on...

The key you are looking for is F8. That will bring up the boot selection screen. fedto[cheers]

Go to start>run and in open, type msconfig hit ok or enter. Click ont he autoexec.bat tab and do what you need to do. If the Os is win95, find the autoexec.bat file in dos mode and type at the prompt, edit autoexec.bat and edit the line you need fedto[cheers]

Since you have 512 mb ram, your system would not be using that much if any at all of the paging file. It would not have to use a swap file. It will only use the paging file IF it runs low or out of RAM. Try changing the setting in the same location to background processes instead of applications...

It could be a file association problem or there is a setting in word to ignore other applications. The ignore other applications is more common in word 97. Click on tools>options>general take the check out of "ignore other applictaions" fedto[cheers]