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by numelb

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My PC at work-a compaq deskpro starts quiet well when you switch it on but the moment " Starting windows 95 " appears, a game I installed called Word Gallery takes over. You can play the game quiet alright but when you quit, the PC reboots and the same process repeats itself. How can I get this PC to boot normally?

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by blackcurrant

Good day

I don't know why or how your game is managing to reboot your computer after it has finished.

To prevent the game from loading at bootup check the following:

Load= or Run= lines in c:\windows\win.ini
Entries in c:\autoexec.bat
Run, runonce, etc entries in HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version\ and HKCU\(same path as for HKLM) in the registry.
Maybe the start menu - though I think items here only load after the GUI has displayed.
Are any game devices being loaded in c:\config.sys?

Check all the entries, as the game may be loading as part of a batch file or similar.

Hope this helps

by cruncher_1

Blackcurrant has told you where to locate the startup files that are starting your game. My guess is that when you installed the game, you set it up in a special DOS window. When you exit the game it reboots to get out of DOS. When it reboots are you able to get into safe mode by hitting F8 when you hear the beep. If you can get into safe mode you should be able to check out the items Blackcurrant mentioned. It doesn't do any good to have the solution if you can't execute it. In safe mode, you can right click on the game icon or menu item in explorer to edit the properties. Hopefully you will be able to pick out the trouble then.

I hope this helps

by philthegreat

Word Gallery ; Published by Kinderware, Inc.?
A game for kids?
http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/wordgalleryp1.html
It is a DOS game. So it may have added its own command in your autoexec.bat and config.sys
So when you boot up your computer, thegame immediately take over. But when you leave, the computer has tried to go back to Normal windows mode (re-boot); so you have to dis-able the game in config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to boot normally.
start the windows in normal mode:
start-->run-->sysedit-->choose the config.sys and autoexec.bat one by one. put "RAM" before the command line which support your game.
e.g. RAM c:\wordgallery\wordg.exe

Make a boot disk (floppy disk)
c> sys c: a:
copy the unchanged config.sys and autoexec.bat
to disk A:
When you want to play the game; boot it up with this floppy disk.

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