1) I haven't, and T says she hasn't. 2) Only half full, and have defragged. 3) Done that. 4) Her definitions are a few months out of date, but its clean as far as they go. Unfortunately I have no way of updating them as when in safe mode, or when booted from floppy, it can't go online or read them from a CD. I suppose I'll have to copy them across on several floppies... if I can find that many working floppies! Oh, I wonder if I have a bootable CD, presumably that would be OK, I'll have a look. 5) I did manage to fire up the system monitor before it froze, but it was reporting flat memory usage and plenty free. 6) I've now established that even when disabling the entirety of config.sys, autoexec.bat, win.ini, system.ini and the startup group, the error is still present. Yet it isn't present in safe mode. I find this kind of baffling... next thing I'll try is disabling all the devices in Device Manager, although I don't know if that is really any different from disabling the ini files.
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Date: 2006-01-31 09:16 pm (UTC)1) I haven't, and T says she hasn't.
2) Only half full, and have defragged.
3) Done that.
4) Her definitions are a few months out of date, but its clean as far as they go. Unfortunately I have no way of updating them as when in safe mode, or when booted from floppy, it can't go online or read them from a CD. I suppose I'll have to copy them across on several floppies... if I can find that many working floppies! Oh, I wonder if I have a bootable CD, presumably that would be OK, I'll have a look.
5) I did manage to fire up the system monitor before it froze, but it was reporting flat memory usage and plenty free.
6) I've now established that even when disabling the entirety of config.sys, autoexec.bat, win.ini, system.ini and the startup group, the error is still present. Yet it isn't present in safe mode. I find this kind of baffling... next thing I'll try is disabling all the devices in Device Manager, although I don't know if that is really any different from disabling the ini files.