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windows has disabled direct access to pr

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by maduca 1 view

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Windows 95 OS Error message, please help.
"windows has disabled direct disk access to protect your long file names. To override this protection, see the lock /? command for more information. The system has been halted. Press CTL+ALT+DEL to restart your computer" After you hit CTL+ALT+DEL it restarts to give the same error message. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Thanks friends.
Michael

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by kelly_aitch

Most likely you are really low on disk space. It can also be caused by using old DOS drivers, or some old versions of Norton Utilities. There is also some problems with Drivespace on older IBM computers that can result in this message.

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by nettek

The Knowledge Base article Q136061 at support.microsoft.com lists the causes and solutions of the error message you are getting.

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