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Start Button Doesn’t Work

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I am working on a computer for a lady that recently upgraded (by herself) to Win98 from Win95. Everything appears fine but the Start Button will not work. I can left click and open it but it will not open on its own. When I open it I can’t get tosettings, run or any of the win programs only the programs folder. I checked for viruses and it only had one – Dialer. I removed it, ran sfc and the button still doesn’t work.

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I’m sorry, but in fact, the only real solution is to re-install W98se. It seems that your virus has broken seriously your kernel.
Except if your left click button is damaged…

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This is one of the problems from simply installing the upgrade as opposed to doing it right, and starting over from scratch.

I recommend that you back up any user files
inventory the installed applications,
Run fdisk /mbr and then re-partition the drive.
Format and start over.

This can be compounded if the user was an AOL user, as AOL takes over the PC.

Chas

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I did exactly that. Thanks.

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Anybody who is still using win 95 has an old, obsolete OS that has significantly deteriorated already. Then you perform an upgrade (an extremely complex process fraught with a multitude of potential errors), and you have a good recipe for disaster. Throw in a virus infection on top of that, and it’s not hard to see why there is a problem. Virtually everyone I know who has had an older system and performed an upgrade has had a nightmare experience. In the long run, it’s MUCH better to just reformat the hard drive, and do a clean install of a full retail version of win 98se. You will be glad you did. If money is an issue, perhaps somebody can access http://www.ebay.com for her and get an unused copy of win 98se really cheap.

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