Guest pamshanta Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 After I boot up to my Win98SE to Desktop, multi copies of MS Dos Prompt appearing. Thinking that its infection, I scan my hdd and got rid of the bad stuff. However, this MS Dos Prompt boxes does not seems to go away. How can I stop it from appearing? TIA
Guest Fan924 Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Re: multi copies of MS DOS Prompt What is in the MS Dos Prompt window? Was there a program run?
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Re: multi copies of MS DOS Prompt What are the titles of the prompts? What's written in the top title bar. How many show up at each startup? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "pamshanta" <pamshanta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE8558AB-57C0-4FB4-811B-2D414A020303@microsoft.com... > After I boot up to my Win98SE to Desktop, multi copies of MS Dos Prompt > appearing. Thinking that its infection, I scan my hdd and got rid of the > bad > stuff. However, this MS Dos Prompt boxes does not seems to go away. How > can I > stop it from appearing? TIA
Guest MEB Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Re: multi copies of MS DOS Prompt "pamshanta" <pamshanta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE8558AB-57C0-4FB4-811B-2D414A020303@microsoft.com... | After I boot up to my Win98SE to Desktop, multi copies of MS Dos Prompt | appearing. Thinking that its infection, I scan my hdd and got rid of the bad | stuff. However, this MS Dos Prompt boxes does not seems to go away. How can I | stop it from appearing? TIA Okay, so you say you can boot to Windows HOWEVER, when it starts the GUI you get multiple instances of a DOS box/prompt? If this is the case, first check that you have no links to a DOS program in your Startup folder. Second, did you have other programs installed recently that you removed? Was this computer infected and you cleaned it? If none of the above apply, then you may have something in your autorun entries in the registry, run HiJackThis, and post to one of the forums which deal with these issues.. -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com -- _________
Guest pamshanta Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Re: multi copies of MS DOS Prompt What I did was to go to msconfig & uncheck most items and also remove all the unwanted programes from Add/Remove. All the titles 'MS Dos prompt boxes does not appear anymore. (fyi the black boxes does not have any words in it when it appears earlier on). Now when I try to double click my "C", a SET UP dialogue box appears saying " Intel® family SetUp is preparing the installing wizard which will guide you through the process." Nothing happens and then another dialogue box appears" Severe" "OS type not included in the install media" with "ok" for you to closed the box. That means I cant see the content in my "C" drive. Any clue as how can I see the contentin "C"? "MEB" wrote: > > "pamshanta" <pamshanta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AE8558AB-57C0-4FB4-811B-2D414A020303@microsoft.com... > | After I boot up to my Win98SE to Desktop, multi copies of MS Dos Prompt > | appearing. Thinking that its infection, I scan my hdd and got rid of the > bad > | stuff. However, this MS Dos Prompt boxes does not seems to go away. How > can I > | stop it from appearing? TIA > > Okay, so you say you can boot to Windows HOWEVER, when it starts the GUI > you get multiple instances of a DOS box/prompt? > > If this is the case, first check that you have no links to a DOS program in > your Startup folder. > > Second, did you have other programs installed recently that you removed? > > Was this computer infected and you cleaned it? > > If none of the above apply, then you may have something in your autorun > entries in the registry, run HiJackThis, and post to one of the forums which > deal with these issues.. > > -- > MEB > http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com > -- > _________ > > > >
Guest MEB Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Re: multi copies of MS DOS Prompt "pamshanta" <pamshanta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C3390B02-B035-4CF6-80AE-21804B675E4C@microsoft.com... | What I did was to go to msconfig & uncheck most items and also remove all the | unwanted programes from Add/Remove. All the titles 'MS Dos prompt boxes does | not appear anymore. (fyi the black boxes does not have any words in it when | it appears earlier on). | | Now when I try to double click my "C", a SET UP dialogue box appears saying | " Intel® family SetUp is preparing the installing wizard which will guide | you through the process." Nothing happens and then another dialogue box | appears" Severe" "OS type not included in the install media" with "ok" for | you to closed the box. That means I cant see the content in my "C" drive. | | Any clue as how can I see the contentin "C"? Sounds like you went a bit overboard there. As we have no idea what you removed or disabled, it makes it difficult to diagnose. The Intel issue indicates that you likely have an application accellerator/hard drive access issue {or chipset driver} [which you may have uninstalled or disabled]. What Intel chipset is it? Computer model and make and/or motherboard manufacturer would help with that issue, so we can determine whether one was applied or not.. Blindly [meaning without understanding] disabling things in MSCONFIG and removing things you think you don't want or need,, MAY help to remove an issue, but one should be aware that some things are necessary. Try enabling whatever you disabled *one at a time* until you get the DOS box issue back. That will give you the target issue/whatever that MIGHT be involved. Post what ever you find appears to be the issue.. Re-disable that program, then walk through the rest [one at a time enable] to see if they are related, or cause issues. | | "MEB" wrote: | | > | > "pamshanta" <pamshanta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message | > news:AE8558AB-57C0-4FB4-811B-2D414A020303@microsoft.com... | > | After I boot up to my Win98SE to Desktop, multi copies of MS Dos Prompt | > | appearing. Thinking that its infection, I scan my hdd and got rid of the | > bad | > | stuff. However, this MS Dos Prompt boxes does not seems to go away. How | > can I | > | stop it from appearing? TIA | > | > Okay, so you say you can boot to Windows HOWEVER, when it starts the GUI | > you get multiple instances of a DOS box/prompt? | > | > If this is the case, first check that you have no links to a DOS program in | > your Startup folder. | > | > Second, did you have other programs installed recently that you removed? | > | > Was this computer infected and you cleaned it? | > | > If none of the above apply, then you may have something in your autorun | > entries in the registry, run HiJackThis, and post to one of the forums which | > deal with these issues.. | > | > -- | > MEB -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com -- _________
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