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To: Alf who wrote (3753)	4/19/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Backfill	Respond to of 12617

Tim, Have you run a virus check on your system. I recently had a strange problem which appeared to be my monitor. It was dimming out on me. Turned out to be a virus good luck. p.s. picked up the virus off the web...an obscure site...

To: Alf who wrote (3753)	4/19/1998 4:31:00 PM
From: Donn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

[off topic] Tim, you can safely delete those 2 files along with all other files in your cache directory. The .hst is a history of where you have been and the cache directory (as you probably know) is temporary in nature anyway. If you have already tried this and still have the problem (which is likely), other than re-installing the netscape software, I am afraid its over my head too. Well good luck , Donn DOOOH ....I thought this was in private response

To: Alf who wrote (3753)	4/20/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: LTBH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

Always attempt to do an orderly power down: start; shutdown; restart the computer, when running under Win95. Avoid a straight HW power down at all costs!! If you do the latter, chances are (and did for you) that Win95 will be in the middle of writing to disk. Interrupting this write causes bad data to be written. Depending on what and where this bad data is written determines how catastrophic your situation becomes. Upon reboot and a forced disk scan you will be deleting those files. In most cases you may not know what these files are that you are forced to delete and consequently not know if you will be causing a future problem when some program function tries to use these missing files. Possibly you damage the registry and cause all sorts of strange problems, usually ultimately requires erasing registry and reloading your programs. Data usually not lost in this scenario. Worst case you destroy the FAT and must reformat and therefore reload everything from scratch. Data and everything else is lost in this scenario. Now you do need to ascertain the nature of your initial problem. Based on your description of some sort of monitor display anomaly, suggest starting by ensuring you have good power to your PC and that you are not on the same line as an AC or other heavy start load device. Also possible you have a PC PS problem. These are a few things to check (better problem description helps). But NEVER HW power down if your PC is NOT in a solid hang!! Networm