-=> Quoting Simon Byrnand to William Charles Davis <=-
G'Day Simon,
 WCD> Problem: Win95 contantly polls the cdrom and harddrive,and
 WCD> consequently crashes when you try to do anything.. ??????
 SB> Just a hunch. Go into the performance tab of System Properties, (get
 SB> properties on my computer) and see if a box says that any drives are
 SB> in MS-DOS compatibility mode. If so, you have a problem. If it also
 SB> says that the MBR has been modified and has non-standard code, then you
 SB> more than likely have a MBR virus like AntiCMOS which can cause the
 SB> symptoms you mention.
 SB> Another possibility is that you're using an old dynamic drive overlay
 SB> (a program that lets a machine that wouldnt normally take a >504MB
 SB> drive do so) which is not compatible with Win95, also forcing C drive
 SB> to run in MS-DOS compatibility mode.
Thanks for the reply/advice, unfortunately the above is not the case.. ;-(
Managed with help from some other good people like yourself,to solve the
problem of polling,by turning "auto insertion notification" OFF.. ;-)
However Win95 still insists on crashing whenever it's asked to do anything,
even shut down,I am now getting fatal exception errors,which didn't appear
before...
Have tried 4 total removals/re-installs to no avail.... ;-(
Currently bamboozled and considering the use of a sledge hammer... ;-)
Such apears to be life with MS... ;-)
Cheers Bill
... Tis but a flesh wound...
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