This is your power setting. You need to turn it off. You can do this
one of two ways. The first is to go to MSCONFIG and uncheck
LoadPowerProfile in the Startup tab. This should shut off all of your
power settings. You shouldn't need these anyway with a desktop, and
particularly should not be using the shut disk drive off as this can
lead to corruptions of certain types of databases. The second way is to
go to Control panel, Power management and change the monitor setting.
You can change the others there as well.
Keith Thompson
Cindy Shultz wrote:
>
> Jeff and all,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I decided, with someone's advice at work, to simply
> reinstall the entire Windows98 CD. That did the trick. I had discovered
> prior to doing so that anything I clicked on in control panel gave me that
> same message about the "rundll32.exe", not just the 'display' icon. Now
> everything is working as it should.
>
> My only problem now is that the screensaver runs for a while and then I get
> a totally black screen. When I disengage the screensaver by touching my
> touchpad, everything on the desktop is faded out. Could this be the result
> of not using a screensaver for a while? (a matter of a couple of days..)
> What can I do about this? Is my screen going bad? I have a Dell Inspiron
> 7000 laptop, a couple of years old.
>
> Again, tia,
> Cindy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:08 PM
> Subject: Re: PCWorks: Unable to initiate screensaver
>
> Cindy,
> Have you searched your hard drive for that file?
> It may be missing or damaged.
> Go to run, type SFC
> Select to extract one file and type that rundll32.exe.
> You will need your WIN CD, unless your install files are in CABS on your
> hard drive.
> Jeff
>
> FAX 1-413-280-0677
> Jeff Dougherty
> Intrepid Video & Electronics
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "pcworks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 1:21 PM
> Subject: PCWorks: Unable to initiate screensaver
>
> > Hi, Workers,
> >
> > When trying to go into "start/settings/control panel/display" to initiate
> a screensaver (Win98) I got a msg window with "Cannot find the file
> c:\windows\rundll32.exe (or one of its components). Make sure path and file
> > name are correct and that all required libraries are available."
> >
> > What does this mean and how do I fix it?
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