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

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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 3:53 pm Posted by Carl Soard (124 messages posted) Go from Start to Shutdown and select Reboot to MS DOS and when you finish making your changes type in exit and hit enter and you will reboot back into Windows. Afterward just reverse your steps to reset it to how it was before you made changes. Good luck [Reply or follow-up to this message] 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 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Seems I didn't understand the problem..... Thursday, June 7, 2001 at 6:14 pm Posted by Carl Soard (124 messages posted) I thought all you wanted to do was to reboot into DOS and disable Blackice Defender then reboot into Windows. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Seems I didn't understand the problem..... Thursday, June 7, 2001 at 7:08 pm Posted by Bobstur (2225 messages posted) The problem with that is that the firewall starts up with Windows. So to run defrag with Windows running the firewall needs to be turned off from a DOS box in Windows. Bob Sturtevant  http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/ Please let us know what works. On Thu, 7 Jun, 2001 - 18:14, Carl Soard wrote: I thought all you wanted to do was to reboot into DOS and disable Blackice Defender then reboot into Windows. [Reply or follow-up to this message] thanks for taking the time to answer Friday, June 8, 2001 at 2:18 pm Posted by Kim (7 messages posted) thanks for answering my question On Thu, 7 Jun, 2001 - 15:53, Carl Soard wrote: >Go from Start to Shutdown and select Reboot to MS DOS and when you finish making >your changes type in exit and hit enter and you will reboot back into Windows. Afterward >just reverse your steps to reset it to how it was before you made changes. Good luck [Reply or follow-up to this message] thanks!! Friday, June 8, 2001 at 2:20 pm Posted by Kim (7 messages posted) thanks for taking the time to answer my question [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how do I get to MS-DOS and then back to windows 98 again to fix a prob w/ software Sunday, June 17, 2001 at 4:17 pm Posted by William (1 messages posted) Thanks so much for the knowledge On Thu, 7 Jun, 2001 - 15:53, Carl Soard wrote: >Go from Start to Shutdown and select Reboot to MS DOS and when you finish making >your changes type in exit and hit enter and you will reboot back into Windows. Afterward >just reverse your steps to reset it to how it was before you made changes. Good luck [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