On Wednesday 22 August 2001 10:13, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I was trying to load printer drivers from a linux server onto two windows9x
> clients, one 95, one 98, for a lexmark z53 printer, which works just swell
> with linux.
> The drivers downloaded, but rebooting windows in both machines just hangs
> up at the point when it asks for your windows password.
> So, it seems that a file downloaded from the server did something bad to my
> windows boxes. There were some error messages about a file called
> lexcbes.exe or something similar being in use when I tried to download the
> files from the server. On one machine I thoughtfully deleted that file in
> dosmode, but on the other I just rebooted and the download went to
> completion but windows won't restart properly.
> I can only assume that this file is important to running windows other
> than just printing to the z53.
> Maybe the case mangling did something bad. Who knows?
> ANYWAY,
> I need to start windows in dosmode so I can try to reinstall the file I
> think is the culprit. I don't use windows so I don't know how.
> Any insight appreciated.
> Joel
I believe you hold the F2 key down from the point the boot starts until you
get to a menu asking you what you want to do (today....)
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+ Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 08/22/01 10:25 +
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"The easiest path is always mined."
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