I have a question about What to do about error messages during Windows startup:

When I start my computor it runs through the standard screens and gets to the windows 95 screen. It then briefly goes back to the black screen and say's -tarting(yes tarting 'no s) windows 95 Bad command or file name.It finishes loading and works reasonably well but...it wont run disk defrag scandisk and it also won't run solitair sometimes.

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

If you are getting an altered start message, then I would think you have a good chance 
of having a virus. Scan your entire system, but if you don't have one, boot with 
a boot disk and run the command:

SYS C:

This will replace the damaged file.

As far as the 'Bad command or filename' is concerned, it is probably a command in 
your autoexec.bat file that is trying to run a program that doesn't exist. Check 
that all the lines in this file refer to programs that exist.





On Friday, January 25, 2002 at 6:21 am, John wrote:
>I have a question about What 
>to do about error messages during Windows startup:
When I start my computor 
>it runs through the standard screens and gets to the windows 95 screen. It then 
briefly 
>goes back to the black screen and say's -tarting(yes tarting 'no s) windows 95 Bad 
>command or file name.It finishes loading and works reasonably well but...it wont 
>run disk defrag scandisk and it also won't run solitair sometimes.
>
>
>

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

• Search this forum
• Start a new thread on a different subject

• Report abuse of the forum