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Amy Cheung - 28 May 2004 15:54 GMT

My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
Freecell program is working properly for a while.
Recently, she click "new game" and the pc hangs. I have
tried re-install it by it's still the same. Solitarie also
shows the same problem. Otherwise, minesweepers and hearts
are working prefectly fine. I use Trend Micro Housecall
anti-virus scan and the system is virus free. Is there any
solutions to it?

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Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email do 17 Right) - 28 May 2004 18:02 GMT

>My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
>Freecell program is working properly for a while.
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>anti-virus scan and the system is virus free. Is there any
>solutions to it?

Perhaps try running SFC (System File Checker) type SFC at the Run
dialogue.

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Andrew H. Carter

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Anthony Buckland - 28 May 2004 18:38 GMT

> My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
> Freecell program is working properly for a while.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> anti-virus scan and the system is virus free. Is there any
> solutions to it?

My biggest problems with the old games under Windows 98
(98SE, actually) had to do with using a screen saver.
I soon switched to just having the screen go to black
after a reasonable number of minutes. You could try
switching your screen saver off and see what happens.

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Michael Gambie - 29 May 2004 17:19 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
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>.
>Hi Amy. Its probably a coincidence but I also had a

problem with both Solitaire and Freecell. both programs
not working but Minesweeper and Hearts were OK. I ran SFC
as suggested by Andrew which whilst locating and fixing
two corrupt files failed to solve the problem. I finally
tracked it down to McAfee PGP which I had loaded from a
magazine disc. When said program had been disabled
everything was back to normal. Well there is a suprise. So
the million dolllar question is have you or your Mother
recently loaded any new software?

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