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Windows Forum / Windows Me / General Topics / July 2006missing programs
I have most of the spyware programs, ad-aware, cw shredder, spybot and spyware blaster. Recently when I went to accessories, system tools, I was missing defrag. I went on a search and located it and dragged to my start menu. After running scandisk it worked ok. Today I wanted to run scandisk. It was gone from the menu too so from search, I dragged it to the start menu. I closed everything but systray and explorer and ran scandisk which takes a while but finally finished. Then I tried to run defrag with no sucess. Finally did a system restore to June 28th and lost both of these in the start menu but they did not come back to system tools. Is pacman eating my files. Thanks all Kelly Kelly, not too sure that I completely understand your report, nor as to why they keep disappearing, but might be worth 'Undoing my last restoration' (of the 28th June) if you can, to bring you back to 'today'. Then attempt to create a new shortcut(s) for scandisk - but don't run it yet! Set a new SR point, re-boot and confirm that the shortcut is still there. Then, try running scandisk. Remember, the scandisk icon in your system tools folder is (should be) only a shortcut to the scandisk.exe file. If you are suggesting that scandisk.exe is missing, a 'fresh' copy can be extracted from the win_17.cab folder. (NB - there is also a 'fresh' copy of scandisk.ini in win_18.cab) Mart >I have most of the spyware programs, ad-aware, cw shredder, spybot and > spyware blaster. Recently when I went to accessories, system tools, I was [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Thanks all > Kelly Mart, I undid the last restoration. The scandisk and defrag programs re-appeared in the start up menu. Originally when I clicked on programs, accessories, system tools, I would find the scandisk shortcut with it's familiar icon and also the defrag shortcut. Also the following, character map, clipboard viewer, disk cleanup, drive space, maintenance wizard, net watcher. resource meter, scheduled tasks, system information, system monitor, system restore. Then the scandisk shortcut came up missing and later the defrag shortcut. That's when I dragged those two into the startup menu and as you say they turned out not to be shortcuts. This is what I have done so far. In the sartup menu I created a shortcut for scandisk. I then dragged the shortcut up to accessories and into system tools. I restarted and it stayed there. I have not tried it yet but is has an msdos icon. I don't do well extracting files. My mind isn't as fresh as it once was. 78 here. Thanks > Kelly, not too sure that I completely understand your report, nor as to why > they keep disappearing, but might be worth 'Undoing my last restoration' (of [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Thanks all > > Kelly Ok Kelly - I may have confused myself and given you some misleading information earlier. As far as I can now tell from your follow-up, it may not be the scandisk.exe file that you need to be looking for - but rather - the scandskw.exe file. Note the difference in spelling (no 'i' and a 'w' on the end). Scandskw.exe should be located in your Windows folder - and you may only need to create a replacement shortcut for your System Tools folder. And this should give the 'proper' icon!! If however scandskw.exe is missing from your Windows folder, again you can extract a 'fresh copy' from the WIN_17.CAB folder. If you are not sure how to extract files, see either :- "How to Extract and Replace a Protected File in Windows Me" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265371/en-us or "HOW TO: Extract Original Compressed Windows Files" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129605/en-us or if you come unstuck :- "Unable to Extract Files Using the System Configuration Utility" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259687/en-us HTH Mart > Mart, > I undid the last restoration. The scandisk and defrag programs re-appeared [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] >> > Thanks all >> > Kelly Thanks Mart, I had that file and created a shortcut to the tools folder and the icon was right. I also did the same with defrag. I closed everything but systray and exolorer and ran scandisk with no problems. Not so lucky with defrag. It only goes to 3% and starts over and over and over and over. Thanks Kelly > Ok Kelly - I may have confused myself and given you some misleading > information earlier. [quoted text clipped - 84 lines] > >> > Thanks all > >> > Kelly Kelly wrote :- > .... Not so lucky with defrag. It only > goes to 3% and starts over and over and over and over. Either try running Defrag in Safe Mode - should be ok that way (the problem is most likely caused by 'other things' running in the background, which don't *usually* run in Safe Mode) and/or download and run ScanDefrag v 2.4a. This is a FREE utility, written by several well respected contributors to these News Groups and has been designed to run several original MS utilities through a 'filter' which eliminates the usual junk which stops Defrag (and Scandisk) from running properly in Normal Mode - as you are already experiencing <g> You can get ScanDefrag at either of the two sites below - and be sure to read the associated notes for setting it up: http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2/scandefrag/main.htm http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html HTH and good luck Mart > Thanks Mart, > I had that file and created a shortcut to the tools folder and the icon [quoted text clipped - 118 lines] >> >> > Thanks all >> >> > Kelly Thanks Mart, I did try defrag again and it finally worked. But I will check those programs. I haave another post 2 notches up if you have time. Thanks Kelly > Kelly wrote :- > [quoted text clipped - 142 lines] > >> >> > Thanks all > >> >> > Kelly Kelly - Good to hear that you've now got defrag working (in Normal Mode?) - if you leave it long enough - and 'ok' the restart nag screens - it will eventually complete. But the Scandefrag program can be a useful alternative option when things are difficult. I note that Mike M is looking after you with your tmp files issue and am sure that his solution will sort you out. Thanks for your feedback - it's appreciated. Mart > Thanks Mart, > I did try defrag again and it finally worked. But I will check those [quoted text clipped - 169 lines] >> >> >> > Thanks all >> >> >> > Kelly |
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