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re: crash of some type Monday, August 4, 2008 at 9:56 am Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) Steve, Try the link below, Item #21 is the one you're looking for. It will open a downloadable file. I would save to desk top, where you can run the registry patch to repair file associations. I suggest you Restart in Safe Mode to do the repair. http://www.geocities.com/plansdowne_ca/ Might be wise to disable the DSL. Reboot when finished If this works run IE Repair tool. Yes, you'll have to re-start again. Post back with results. BW __________________________________________________________ There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you. On Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 5:52 am, steve wrote: > > I have windows 98 se with dsl and it was running fine until Sat. When i log on >all i have is my home dsl and i have a yahoo toolbar and can get to Yahoo. The problem >is that everything else is blocked by in correct flame path or program no longer >exists or has been moved. All my main icons are white with most of them ending in >.ink and by going to start ,settings, control panel it will not let me. Also ican't >get to my documents or use hotmail. I have avg that still is working on start-up >and updates once a day and shows no viruses. I had spybot search and destroy and >i have used many times but when i uninstalled it i was careful to restore blocked >items but i didn't undo changes and this might be my problem. i have a windows 98se >cd but no floppy. If i could get to control panel i would go to add/remove and go >to ie6 and tools and try to repair or just remove and go to my documents and run >ie6setup.exe and reinstall. > > help please > Steve [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: crash of some type Monday, August 4, 2008 at 3:44 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |[...]you can run the registry patch to repair file associations [link] | bob wells File associations are kept in the Registry. If it had been less than 5 days (and IF Bob's hypothesis was correct), a Registry restore would get the same results. When file associations go wacky, however, the file extension text DOESN'T CHANGE. *MALWARE* does that. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: crash of some type Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 12:46 am Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) OOPS! Coulda sworn the OP had already tried Scanreg /restore. Must be running Threads together in what little Brain I have left. thanks for pointing that out, gewg_ __________________________________________________________ There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you. On Monday, August 4, 2008 at 3:44 pm, gewg_ wrote: >|[...]you can run the registry patch to repair file associations [link] >| bob wells > >File associations are kept in the Registry. >If it had been less than 5 days (and IF Bob's hypothesis was correct), >a Registry restore would get the same results. > >When file associations go wacky, however, the file extension text DOESN'T CHANGE. >*MALWARE* does that. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum