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Josh,
I'm running Win95 so I don't think Win98 stuff will work on it. Am using
Netscape so I don't have IE. How do you turn OFF the active desktop??
Michael
Joshua P. Hill wrote:
> If you're using active desktop, turn it off. Try the repair option in
> IE 5 or, if you don't yet have IE 5, reinstall IE 4 and then add IE 5.
> No guarantee that it will work, but Internet Explorer installation is
> frequently a good repair technique these days. If that doesn't work,
> and if you can't restore your registry, and if the Tweak UI repair
> doesn't work, try reinstalling Windows 98--the objective being to
> replace whatever file got corrupted when you crashed. Or better yet,
> go to NT (with SP4, IE 5, and active desktop off), which is much less
> susceptible to this sort of thing.
>
> Microsoft has steadily improved the stability of the Windows 98/IE
> products through successive upgrades (from abysmal to merely
> terrible)--if you can't go to NT (which upgrades it to mediocre), see
> if you can get your hands on a copy of Win 98 SE release candidate 3.
>
> Josh
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