re: how do I get to MS-DOS and then back to windows 98 again to fix a prob w/ software Thursday, June 7, 2001 at 3:54 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bobstur (2225 messages posted) Gotta disagree with Carl. If you enter those commands, when you do what he says you'll be rebooted back to Windows without having run defrag. Kim, regarding your question and procedure, the answer is yes, after entering 'exit' the MS-DOS window will close. Then you can run defrag. After that a reboot should start the firewall again. No problem with elementary questions - I like the ones I know the answer to.< G > Bob Sturtevant  http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/ Please let us know what works. On Thu, 7 Jun, 2001 - 15:18, Kim wrote: this will probably seem like the world's most elementary question but: I have Windows 98 and I have Blackice Defender (personal firewall software) running and want to run a disk defrag but their site (NETWORK ICE site) says the defrag doesn't complete because files are always open --- so they say that to fix this I go to START MS-DOS Prompt and then type in the following at the '>': cd "\Program files\Network ICE\BlackICE" blackd stop exit My question is this: After I type in 'exit' and hit enter, does this take me back to my windows 98 desktop? and after I run defrag, how will I turn my software back on or should it return to normal operation if I restart my computer after defrag? Thanks for helping a totally non-computer literate person!! Kim Written in response to: how do I get to MS-DOS and then back to windows 98 again to fix a prob w/ software (Kim: Thursday, June 7, 2001 at 3:18 pm) Responses to this message: thanks!! (Kim: Friday, June 8, 2001 at 2:20 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] how do I get to MS-DOS and then back to windows 98 again to fix a prob w/ software (Kim: Thu, Jun 7, 2001, 3:18 pm) re: how do I get to MS-DOS and then back to windows 98 again to fix a prob w/ software (Carl Soard: Thu, Jun 7, 2001, 3:53 pm) thanks for taking the time to answer (Kim: Fri, Jun 8, 2001, 2:18 pm) re: how do I get to MS-DOS and then back to windows 98 again to fix a prob w/ software (William: Sun, Jun 17, 2001, 4:17 pm) re: how do I get to MS-DOS and then back to windows 98 again to fix a prob w/ software (Bobstur: Thu, Jun 7, 2001, 3:54 pm) thanks!! (Kim: Fri, Jun 8, 2001, 2:20 pm) Seems I didn't understand the problem..... (Carl Soard: Thu, Jun 7, 2001, 6:14 pm) re: Seems I didn't understand the problem..... (Bobstur: Thu, Jun 7, 2001, 7:08 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum