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To: CatLady who wrote (18805)	4/16/2001 7:38:24 PM
From: bosquedog	Respond to of 110631

C-A-D twice hung the PC, including the ICS connection it was hosting. Had to power off & on. I hate when that happens. Are you running firewalls? I don't see the properties tab of the ms dos prompt fixing this kind of problem. Here is a link with some hints to follow: However, before doing anything you should run scandisk a couple of times. bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk Step-by-step There are several programs running in the background whether you realise it or not. We need to boot the PC with ALL those programs turned off. Use the msconfig command. Click on start, go to run and type msconfig. When the System Configuration Utility opens click on startup and uncheck ALL the boxes that are ticked. Reboot the PC. Call up task manager. There should be only one program listed here i.e. Explorer. Any other programs listed are not required and can be terminated using the End Task button. Now that you're in Windows and have no programs running in the background it's time for the trial and error. Open up the suspect program and use if for a while to see if it crashes. If it does it may need to be uninstalled from the control panel (add/remove programs) and re-installed. Does the problem persist? Does the problem happen in several programs? Then you may have to take extreme steps.