| Win 95 question [message #20598] |
Tue, 11 July 2000 00:00  |
promashkin
Messages: 169
Registered: December 1999
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This is not IDL question but I hope that other Windows users can
enlightlen me. I recently ran Norton Utilities on my Win-95 machine to
consolidate and diagnose hard drive (big mistake; I am glad all of my
IDL is back at work on a Mac, backed up with tripple redundancy).
Yesterday, after several days of freezes, crashes and other bad things I
reinstalled 95. Now, I can not use drag-and-drop on Win-95 at all, none
of the icons would drag. Could anybody tell me why? The rest of things
is almost ok.
Thank you,
Pavel
P.S. David, please don't banish me from the newsgroup for using
Norton... Please... I am punished enough already :-(
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| Re: Win 95 question [message #20670 is a reply to message #20598] |
Fri, 14 July 2000 00:00  |
promashkin
Messages: 169
Registered: December 1999
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Thanks Michael,
What you said is not too comforting. On my machine, a host of problems
occured one month after warranty expired :-( I am trying different
killing fixes in the order of increasing damage now. The last resort -
throw the CPU in the trash - is coming up, as now it won't stay up and
running for more than 30 min. I think I know the thing to do: get new
motherboard, CPU, memory, video card and better power supply, bigger
hard drive and a new OS ...
Cheers,
Pavel
Michael W Asten wrote:
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> Hi Pavel,
> No, I cant tell you why, but I had a similar problem 6 months ago with
> drag and drop, altho I never worked out when/how it first occurred. I sent
> my computer (Toshiba laptop 430CDT, Win95) back to the vendor for expert
> help, and the best the vendor experts could do over 2 days (after trying
> various reinstallations) was
> 1) ascertain from Microsoft that Microsoft had heard of the problem
> 2) advice from Microsoft that they could not offer either explanation or
> fix
> 3) reimage the disc, ie. do a total low-level disc reformat and
> reinstallation of everything.
>
> That does not answer your question , but be assured that , unlike Bill
> Gates, I sympathize.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Asten�
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