re: Can't open control panel programs or desktop
Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(946 messages posted)
You have a bunch of separate problems and you run them together.
"they start blinking"????? The only plural noun before that is "files". I don't
know how a file can start blinking.
With what are you downloading files? A browser? A download manager? A media player?
An anti-malware program trying to get an update? If it was a browser then which
one? What item on what part of the screen starts blinking? What were you trying
to download? How big was it? Do you connect by dialup or broadband?
The only time I've had trouble with files that refused to download it was anti-malware
programs and there was malware intentionally interfering with them.
I have no idea what you are doing with the Control Panel. Your description is too
vague to be useful.
If RUNDLL32.EXE has been corrupted then a fresh copy can be extracted from Win98_46.CAB.
You seem to have a variety of problems. Have someone run antivirus and antispyware
programs on your computer. If that wasn't the problem then if you have the product
disks, have someone reload Win98 for you.
As for a newer computer, cheap, I'll say "eBay"and save Gewg the trouble of saying
it.
On Monday, February 4, 2008 at 8:28 pm, Spanky wrote:
>Hi~~my situation is when i try to download files they start blinking and I have
to
>shut down to elimate it! So I never am able to download and this happened on another
>PC I once used......Is it me or does this happen to others........Then theres the
>control panel programs that say (Access to the specified device path or file is
>denied)
>Then on the desktop shortcuts as well as other files or folders etc. the (C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE
>is not a valid WIN32 application) comes up.......I will appreciate all help and
I
>thank you ahead of time.....I have Windows98SE and wish for a Millinniun or XP some
>day but till then.......I'm looking for a good used one anyone know where I can
get
>one reasonable or is this against Annoyances rules? I hope not but if so I apologize........Spanky
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