Every once in a while I get some message on start-up concerning not loading
or not finding some software and I do as you did - reboot and see if it
repeats. If it doesn't I put it out of mind. With all of the software,
drivers, settings etc. that get loaded on start-up I'm amazed that something
doesn't get loaded quite right more often.

In your case, it seems that a soundblaster setting from your autoexec (a
start-up file) failed to load properly for some reason. When things like
that happen and don't repeat, I just figure that one of the millions of
electrons flowing in the computer simply accidently bumped into another
electron.

This reply isn't very technical - just based on my experiences.

Tom Mayer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Madaline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 6:04 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] ASP4SETP


> When I turned my computer on this morning,
> and the desktop finally appeared, a box also
> appeared in the empty area of the desktop.
> The header on the box was ‘ASP4SETP’.  The
> body of the box had an exclamation point in a
> yellow triangle, on the left.  To the right
> of the yellow triangle was the statement
> ‘Failed to add BLASTER setting to
> AUTOEXEC.BAT’.  The ‘X’ in the upper-right
> corner was grayed out.  The only ‘option’ on
> this box was an ‘OK’ button in the bottom
> center of the box.
>
> Since I had never seen this box and message
> before, and since I had no idea what caused
> it to appear, I just shut down my computer –
> without touching the box’s OK button.  When I
> again turned my computer on, it started
> normally – WITHOUT this strange box
> appearing.
>
> The only thing I have added to my computer in
> quite possibly a year or so, was ADAWARE 6.0
> which I added on Saturday afternoon.  I have
> shutdown and restarted my computer normally
> several times between my adding ADAWARE and
> this morning when the strange box appeared.
>
> Is anyone familiar with what may have caused
> this message – and what I should do if it
> reappears?
>
> I am running Windows 98 on a 4-year old Dell
> XPS 500 MHz system.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Madaline Satkiewicz
>
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