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Has anyone ever seen Windows98 break such that looking at the Display
properties doesn't give you all the tabs you expect. I have a machine with a
blue background saying there is a virus problem, and that I should run AV
(the backgrounds looks a lot like a Blue Screen of Death, same color, same
fonts, text in the middle of the screen, etc). I have done a scan with AVG,
found a bunch of stuff, and it now seems to be clean, but the background
still looks like a BSOD. I had thought to just change the background, but
when I go to Display properties there isn't a Desktop or Background tab,
just Screen Saver and Appearance and Settings.
Any thoughts? Is this machine broke beyond fixing? I don't think Win98 has
any kind of repair install, so am I looking at a complete reinstall? Or can
I just manually delete some file being used as the background image, which
wasn't caught by AVG as part of a virus?
Crossed fingers,
Gordon
Has anyone ever seen Windows98 break such that looking at the Display
properties doesn't give you all the tabs you expect. I have a machine with a
blue background saying there is a virus problem, and that I should run AV
(the backgrounds looks a lot like a Blue Screen of Death, same color, same
fonts, text in the middle of the screen, etc). I have done a scan with AVG,
found a bunch of stuff, and it now seems to be clean, but the background
still looks like a BSOD. I had thought to just change the background, but
when I go to Display properties there isn't a Desktop or Background tab,
just Screen Saver and Appearance and Settings.
Any thoughts? Is this machine broke beyond fixing? I don't think Win98 has
any kind of repair install, so am I looking at a complete reinstall? Or can
I just manually delete some file being used as the background image, which
wasn't caught by AVG as part of a virus?
Crossed fingers,
Gordon