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To: mr.mark who wrote (7459)	12/22/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: belker	Respond to of 110653

Mark, Your plodding method is sound. Perhaps I should follow it in the future. I posted this problem on another forum. A fellow replied that he had the same malfunction, which disappeared after a clean install of WIN98SE. I have been wanting to reinstall everything on my old machine and will do so after I get the new machine up to speed. Thanks, Bob

To: mr.mark who wrote (7459)	12/22/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: Doug Coughlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Maybe Dr. Watson can help with Windows 98 crashes. I didn't know he existed in Windows 98 until tonight. :-) "Fed up with crashes? How often have you felt like complaining, "Why can't Windows figure out what's going wrong"? If you have Windows 98, Windows already can do just that. But you wouldn't know it from the look of things. The program that helps Windows figure things out is hidden away. It's called Dr. Watson. (Yes, it's named after the character in the Sherlock Holmes stories.) You might be familiar with the Dr. Watson program if you're an old-time Windows user, because it was an essential tool in the version of Windows that was popular in the old days, Windows 3.1. Microsoft left it out of Windows 95, but snuck it back into Windows 98 without making a point of it. That was dumb, because the current version of Dr. Watson is outstanding. It will tell you all kinds of things about what was running and what was acting up each time your PC crashes or acts up. Just click Start, then Run. Type "drwatson" and press Enter. Look at the menus and choose the kind of reporting you want. Dr. Watson will pop up whenever things go wrong. You can then look at the report to see the details."

To: mr.mark who wrote (7459)	12/27/1999 8:16:00 AM
From: belker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Mark, I spent a lot of time on my machines this weekend. One of the first things I did was to open the boxes and fiddle with the NIC's. After that I had no trouble with the slow responding modem. Happy to see that. My DSL modem was delivered last week but Bell Atlantic can't turn on the service until next week. Waiting to see how that works. After years of fumbling around in the dark, I took the recommendation of a few folks on SI and bought Upgrading and Repairing PCs. It's great and I have already used the Partition Magic. Bob