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To: PMS Witch who wrote (8146)	7/18/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

PW I'm trying to follow this. Where does he find the dos shortcut -- the "MS-DOS Prompt" shortcut in Sart/Programs? I think that's the one you mean because the properties sheet has the tabs you describe. But once I get into Advanced Program Settings you don't say what to do there. I tested the shortcut (double-clicked it) and it opened a dos screen in windows -- not like you said it would. Bill, is it possible you installed a program recently about the same time this thing started happening? There might be something running in the background that is conflicting. You might check your close program thing (the thing that pops up when you hit ctrl/alt/del) and tell us what's running in there. w

To: PMS Witch who wrote (8146)	7/18/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: William W. Dwyer, Jr.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

PW, Thanks for your suggestion. I did what you said, but the system still hung up when trying to exit and restart in DOS mode. I have done something to really screw it up, it appears. BTW, does it matter that I have several MSDOS shortcuts and I only changed one as you suggested, but not the others? First time I really screwed up Win 98, but I had several "episodes" when using Win 3.1 in the good ole days. Any other suggestion would surely be appreciated. Bill