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TJH - 11 Mar 2006 10:46 GMT

trying to boot up 98se, just when windowpane screen pops up a seconds later I
get kicked out of windows and back into dos. the following message appears:

rem ***** the following line was added by add_path *****
set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:PROGRA^1\ZIPGEN^1\

Any suggestions?
Thanks

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Ron Badour - 11 Mar 2006 13:16 GMT

Try booting in safe mode (after the memory count, hold down the ctrl key)
and if successful, rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys files by changing
their extension to: .old Then reboot normally and if successful, you
will need to remove whatever is in one of those files (probably the
autoexec.bat) that is causing the problem (probably the zipgen). Then you
can change the two file's extensions back to what they were and see if the
correction cures the problem with booting.

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> trying to boot up 98se, just when windowpane screen pops up a seconds
> later I
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks

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Don Phillipson - 11 Mar 2006 13:58 GMT

> trying to boot up 98se, just when windowpane screen pops up a seconds later I
> get kicked out of windows and back into dos. the following message appears:
>
> rem ***** the following line was added by add_path *****
> set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:PROGRA^1\ZIPGEN^1\

This is not an error message. It is a couple of lines
from your AUTOEXEC.BAT echoed to your screen.
(REM = remark = non-executed memo
SET PATH is a DOS command Windows does not
use; it has the Regisitry instead.)

Standard installations of Win98 do not need
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. Rename
them both something else (eg. *.BAK) and reboot.
If Windows does not load the trouble iis elsewhere,

Try rebooting wiith either the F8 key or the Control key
held down and see if you can check the usual suspects in
Safe Mode. If not, you may need to reinstal Win98.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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Bill Watt - 15 Mar 2006 07:20 GMT

>trying to boot up 98se, just when windowpane screen pops up a seconds later I
>get kicked out of windows and back into dos. the following message appears:
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>Any suggestions?
>Thanks

If re-naming the autoexec.bat and config.sys files solves the
problem and you still need the path to Zipgen~1 then insert this in
front of the line after the =.
C:\Windows; (include the ; semicolon)
The line may be in either file.
The line will look like this:
set PATH=C:\Windows;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:PROGRA^1\ZIPGEN^1\

The way it is now you have no path to Windows unless there is
another path statement after this one and it includes C:\Windows.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

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