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Starting windows 98
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Posted by Jack Tucker (7 messages posted)

I turn on computer and it shows windows 98 logo and then it shows a scan of files and then it goes blank. A small cursor in upper left hand corner blinks 15 seconds or so and then a green screen comes on in the center and it shows my name and asks for a password. The cursor blinks in the blank window where it asks me to enter password. It does this a few times and quits. The mouse can't move cursor and nothing happens.

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re: Starting windows 98
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Posted by gewg_ (4060 messages posted)

Jack Tucker wrote:
|I turn on computer
|and it shows windows 98 logo and then it shows a scan of files
|and then it goes blank.
|A small cursor in upper left hand corner blinks 15 seconds or so
|and then a green screen comes on in the center
|and it shows my name and asks for a password.

What happens when you hit the Esc key?

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re: Starting windows 98
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Posted by gewg_ (4060 messages posted)

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gewg_ wrote:
||What happens when you hit the Esc key?

Jack Tucker wrote:
|I hit it many times and nothing happened

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Jack Tucker wrote:
|||I turn on computer

*Your* computer or a computer that belongs to your employer?

|||and it shows windows 98 logo and then it shows a scan of files
|||and then it goes blank.
|||A small cursor in upper left hand corner blinks 15 seconds or so
|||and then a green screen comes on in the center
|||and it shows my name and asks for a password.

If it is a computer in your home, I'd suspect an infection.
From 
Safe Mode, update your malware killer(s) and run a scan.

If the computer is sometimes out of your control,
I suspect someone used System 
Policy Editor.

If the computer is corporate property, I would suspect the latter
and would think you should have been alerted to changes.

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