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Jeann - 23 Jun 2005 09:28 GMT

Hi,
My problem was that after reinstalling Wins 98 edition 1 with the product
key, I was prompted to "Select user name" and "password". The pop up window
was titled "Enter Password". HOwever, there wasn't any user name for me to
select and clicking at the password text box doesn't allow to type in
anything at all.
I tried clicking cancel and the screen just went blank with the brand logo
at the background. It then reads as an illegal operation and needs to be shut
down.
Please help me with this problem. Thanks.
I know the previous pass word and user name but there was no data written in
the pop up.

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Don Phillipson - 23 Jun 2005 13:19 GMT

> My problem was that after reinstalling Wins 98 edition 1 with the product
> key, I was prompted to "Select user name" and "password". The pop up window
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> at the background. It then reads as an illegal operation and needs to be shut
> down.

Find (in DOS) and delete all old password files
c:\Windows\*.PWL
then restart and see if Windows starts normally.
(This is not a POST problem = Power On Self Test.)

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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Jeann - 24 Jun 2005 11:19 GMT

All right, Mr Phillipson, I will give a shot on that and if I still can't, I
will revert back to you as soon as I can. Thanks.

Jeann

> > My problem was that after reinstalling Wins 98 edition 1 with the product
> > key, I was prompted to "Select user name" and "password". The pop up
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> then restart and see if Windows starts normally.
> (This is not a POST problem = Power On Self Test.)

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