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Thanks for your replies. Yes...I'm referring to my IBM Thinkpad notebook with Win98SE (just not too familiar with Win98). So from your post, I should try run Taskman.exe to 'enable/disable' startup programs? Please clarify this for me. I do have a desktop pc with WinXP so I'm more familiar with...

I cannot find Task Manager anywhere on my IBM Think Pad with Win98SE. I've tried CTRL/ALT/DEL - no luck. Also when I Run 'services.msc' there is no response. How can I enable Task Manager and slo find 'services.msc'? I need to disable or set to manual some startup programs. Thanks.

How do you "boot into DOS" ? (I already have an idea how to boot into Safe Mode). Thanx for any info.

TekTippy4U - thanks for ur reply. Should I run Scan Disk normally, or should I also do this in Safe Mode? Another question -- should I first clear all the following programs which are displayed in the taskbar as follows:- Thinkpad config/volume/pccard(PCMCIA)/status/100%remaining X infrared...

Many thanks for all your helpful suggestions re my defrag problem. (i didn't act on them earlier cuz i was away) Well, now i'm happy to report back that today i finally got my laptop to complete a Scandisk/Surface Scan. After i pressed SHFT it brought up a screen with START RESTART - so i went...

Micker & TekTippy: thanx for ur suggestions...i will keep trying and see what will work. This is a used IBM laptop with probably approx. 2 GB unused space. I don't have a boot floppy for it and will try to obtain one from bootdisk.com. I don't know to "change the boot order in bios"...can u...

TekTippy: On my IBM laptop (Win/98) I did as you suggested -- as soon as I turned on the puter, i pressed and held down CTRL - but got no further - bcuz this error msg immediately came up: "error message 00301 Test Restart - so i did Restart - and then this msg appears: "OK" (with a slash...

TechTippy4U: thank you very much for your kind reply. I will definitely try the steps u have suggested, and hopefully I'll be able to get my IBM Win98 laptop back to normal usage. If not, then I will be back with more questions. :-) :-)

I did an apparently successful(??) Scandisk - but then tried to Defrag afterwards..got hung on defrag..had to power off cuz couldn't shut down normally...so now each time I turn on my laptop it goes immediately into Defrag and hangs at same incomplete spot..here's error msg: "surface scan -...