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    Unable to get letter assignment of second CDROM

    just an additional to the last answer. Windows 9x dosen't need the config.sys at all I have a blank config.sys on three computers, unless you are running dos apps it's useless. everytime something writes to the config sys I go in and delete the lines (but that's just me) the more important thing...
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    Unable to get letter assignment of second CDROM

    If device manager is seeing it then the setting are right. I would try to set the first and last drive to blank. Also in device manager highlight the drive and click properties and make sure that you have a driver loaded, Should show the name of the drive and Microsoft as provider and a date...
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    Self Extracting Archives

    additional to my earlier post, thanks for the reply, but I can't use a pause command, the first file has to run accept user input, and close. then the second file has to run. What I need is a "wait till closed command". also I found out that this will work if I run the...
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    Can't Start win95

    I'd do one of two things 1.> reinstall the os that you're useing now or 2.> upgrade to a newer version either win95 or win98. to make life easier Reuel Miller has re-written a standard windows98 boot disk so that it will work with windows95, I use it all the time, it lets you boot to floopy and...
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    Hauppage Win-TV IRQ-Conflicts

    I installed win tv a while back and had a lot of problems with it, ended up reinstalling it, found out that unless you use the removal tool on the win tv cd rom (HCWCLEAR) you just get the same results over and over. You can try to uninstall and reinstall, the fact that it worked well at on time...
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    Defrag locking at 10%

    I have this problem constantly, I just simply reboot to safe mode and run defrag from there.
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    Self Extracting Archives

    I've been useing winzip self extractor to make up exe files to distribute screen savers that I write for business coustomers, I've run into a problem that I can't figure out. When I set up the exe files I have the self extractor run the install file after unziping. I've done this dozens of times...

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