I'm benching a Presario 2266 desktop.  Was told that mouse was not
working.  What I found was that upon Win98 boot,  a multimeda
screensaver activates before the desktop is even displayed.  At this
point, system locks, and all that is displayed is wallpaper (airline
promo related to screensaver).  Cannot reach owner since unit dropped
off to find out when problem occured (assuming since screensaver
install).  The person who dropped it off (owner's brother) just said
it's okay for me to reformat.  This seems viable and easy option, but I
want to hear that from the owner directly.

Ran F-prot from DOS.  Clean.  Tried restoring earliest registry from
DOS.  No joy.  Removed screensaver load from system.ini and was able to
boot.  However, system was sluggish.  128MB RAM, with 84% utilization.
Cookie&Cache application and task scheduler running.  Disabled C&C app.
Searched resgistry for suspect apps loading upon boot; none found.
Rebooted, and once again same problem: lock up.  Even the wallpaper
(which I had disabled) returned.  It's the only thing on screen, no taks
bar, no icons, no repsonse.  Tried running windows setup; crashes w/o
error msg.  Thought retrying setup and skipping reg. check would help;
same outcome.  Anyone have any suggestions.  TIA


Ian Carmichael

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