imjctheman,

Have you checked your Display settings? Have they been changed? That certainly can make everything bigger. I do not think you have to shut down in order to change the Display settings back to what you like if this were the case. But if not, you can hold in the power button for ten seconds to turn your computer off and restart it again. Preferable in Safe Mode.

If that doesn't help than I would look into reinstalling your video driver. It may have gotten corrupted or even uninstalled which may also have led to the large resolution. I am not very familiar with Windows 98 so hold out for more suggestions and or corrections.

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hi,

Try a registry restore.

Start - Shutdown and into DOS or boot with a floppy disk

At the DOS prompt type "scanreg /restore" There is a space between the g & /

Select a date from the 5 offered when the computer was working properly. Generally it is best to use the oldest.

hth

Ceri



Message Edited on 05/02/02 10:45AM by ceri sheeran

I think this might be the MS article bluerose referred to ……..

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q238096

and here is another that is a bit more expanded………

http://www.aumha.org/a/shutdownz.htm

and.....

http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/98seshutdown.html





Message Edited on 05/02/02 06:52AM by Skybird

Hello! There is a Microsoft Knowledge base article to do with shurdown problems in Wins 98. I thought I had the article still available, so I could give you the actual article number.
If you go to Microsoft website and under support, then Knowledge Base articles, type in question Windows 98 shutdown problems (or something to that effect) you will get to the article.

As far as the display settings, have you tried going into Display Properties window and resetting the Resolution? Start>Control Panel>Display>Settings tab. Bottom right corner of window shows Screen Area. Try sliding the bar to reset to a different screen resolution.

The quickest way to escape from your dilemma is to follow Ceri Sheeran's scanreg /restore. You have a window of only 5 days. Do not waste time. The Windows 98 Shutdown problem is a problem that can be attribulted to more than your inability to escape from the altered display properties. If you have been keeping up with Microsoft's updates, then there is a good liklihood that the Windows 98 Shutdown problem has been addressed in an update. I would correct the problem of the restart that you are experiencing by returning to a day, several days ago, when everything worked correctly.

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Hi

By Default Windows 98SE and I expect other versions only makes five copies of the registry. This is very very easily changed in the instructions below. A simpler path for the location of these files is also very useful.

No more than 2 or three minutes work but it could save your system when your registry falls over or gets very seriously corrupted.

I have recovered a few very sick machines with scan reg /restore and always increased the number of copies.

Instructions

Start WIndows Explorer and then find and open a file in c:\windows called "scanreg .ini" Just find it and double left click on it to open it.

Make two minor changes to it. Increase the number of copies of the registry backup made automatically by Windows 98 SE ( and I expect other versions ) and put the copies into an easier place.

I have copied the top section of my scanreg.ini file below which includes the two changes.

I have changed the maxbackup copies from the default of 5 to 15

I have set a path of c:\registry for the location of these files.

Both of these changes are clearly shown in the copy below.


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


; Scanreg.ini for making system backups.
;

;Registry backup is skipped altogether if this is set to 0
Backup=1

;Registry automatic optimization is skipped if this is set to 0
Optimize=1

ScanregVersion=0.0001
MaxBackupCopies=15

;Backup directory where the cabs are stored is
; \sysbckup by default. Value below overrides it.
; It must be a full path. ex. c:\tmp\backup
;
BackupDirectory=c:\registry

Having made the changes simply save the file

I have also created a sub folder in the c:\registry folder called old registry. As windows only looks for the last five copies of the registry even though you store 15 copies, I move the 10 oldest copies to this folder regularly.

The registry files only occupy just over 1mb. Having the extra copies can help you go back a little further to find a working registry if you get a similar problem in the future