Thanks for all your advice!!  Tried to delete devices from hardware mgr.,
but no dice.   I ended up reinstalling win95 over top of what was there, and
it worked.

Cal Peters


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance W. Kephart" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Win95 and


> =========================================
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:57:07
>  Cal Peters wrote:
> I have a user who accidentally compressed their windows/system folder w/
Drive Space.  Immediately thereafter, they lost communication w/ their
printer and the sound card quit working.  I sucessfully uncompressed
everything, but still no printer response or sound.  Checked control
panel/hardware info, and nothing seems awry...no question marks or any
device problems indicated.  My thought is to reinstall windows w/o wiping
the disk....  any other suggestions?
> =========================================
>
> Before wiping the disk, I would uninstall and remove the printer and sound
card devices and software, reboot the system, and then reinstalling the
drivers and see what happens.  It may be that the drives got corrupted.
>
> Best of luck!
> Lance Kephart
>
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