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Old 14 March 2003, 12:29 PM
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My friends running Win98 but neither seem to work? or start?

Any ideas to a solution dont want to re-format

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Old 14 March 2003, 12:36 PM
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Do you have any anti-virus software running ?
Old 14 March 2003, 12:37 PM
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Make sure any anti-virus software is disabled
AV stops this running
Old 14 March 2003, 12:38 PM
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Si,

In autoexec.bat make sure the following two lines are added:

RUNSCANDISK=True
RUNDEFRAG=True

Should be fine then!!!!

Gary

Old 14 March 2003, 01:03 PM
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Thanks lads, my mates offline at the mo but whens hes back ill let him know this.

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Old 14 March 2003, 03:10 PM
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how can you check if those two lines exist cos i have the same problem

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Old 14 March 2003, 04:05 PM
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Cheeseboy had this problem with 98 defrag and it is due to the defrag executable being corrupt you need to download from the MS website the ME version of defrag, search on the MS website for defrag problems and it will tell you what is wrong and how to fix it.

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Old 14 March 2003, 08:27 PM
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gary
i added those lines exactly as you wrote them (and the pc put a small picture of a pencil at the beginning of the lines i added)
in autoexec.bat as you said but when i try to defrag.....it satys on 0%....
do you know why?

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