[marcus77]

I know that this will sound like a "duh" moment, but over the years, I have ran into the same problem over and over again with programs that were not installed correctly. Most of the time these programs will display an illegal operation (Win9x) when started because of the bad installation and will have to be uninstalled & reinstalled. So, for anyone that does not know it already, to save yourself a lot of headaches, here's the way to correctly install a program for Win 9x.

- First, shut down your screen savers, virus scans, and any programs that are running in the system tray (the little box next to your clock).

-Second, do a Alt + Ctrl + Delete to bring up the Close Program box. You need to do an end task on all these files EXCEPT Explorer and Systray. For each program you end task on, the box will disappear. Just do the Alt,Ctrl, Delete to get it back. Try not to hit Alt, Ctrl, Delete more then one time in a row, or it will shut your computer down and you will have to restart the process all over.

-Now that the only programs running on your computer are Explorer (the Windows shell) and systray, you may install your program. After the program is installed, if it gives you the option to restart or not, choose "no". Wait a few seconds after the installation is complete, then restart it by Start/Shutdown/Restart.

[flavallee]

Marcus:

If everyone got into the habit of closing all open programs(except Explorer and Systray) BEFORE installing new software, and then restarting their computer AFTER completing the install(whether prompted to do it or not), the risk of an aborted or corrupted install would become almost nil.

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[marcus77]

In a perfect world, flavallee, in a perfect world.....


Actually, I would run into this problem many times a day when working for tech support. "Netscape has caused page fault in xxxx" became one of the largest problems that I faced (besides the fact that the sales office was selling DSL to Win3.x users).

[AngryClip]

I got a question...

Do you have to restart everytime? or could you just restart after you have installed all you want to install?

In otherwords, say i wanted to install 10 programs, would I have to restart after each one has installed, or could I install them all in one session?

[flavallee]

My recommendation would be to restart after installing each program and not after installing several programs at one time. If you have a problem or get an error message after installing a program, you know which one is causing the problem.

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[AbvAvgUser]

That seems to be a perfect way of not only installation but also working!! If you have 5 softwares running in the background and you do not use them, why let them hog important and scarce PC resources!!

Good thinking pal.

[buckaroo]

For anyone interested here's a neat little freeware program called EndIt All that will list and allow you to quickly close down those applications you want.

http://www.pcmedixwebs.com/enditall.htm

I just use enditall when there's a program in the system tray that I can't close by using itself or by ctrl-alt-delete because it doesn't show up in ctrl-alt-delete, a program like task scheduler (you can only pause it, but not close it, so annoying!).

[AbvAvgUser]

Hey!! You can surely stop using Task Scheduler. Its extremely simple!!

Open Task Scheduler, Click on Advanced (Look in the Menu on top) and choose "Stop Using Task Scheduler"!! Its that simple.

Later if you want to start using it again, go the same option and now it will read "Start using Task Scheduler"!!

-AbvAvgUser.