Question: Recently I’ve been getting “Error — Close Program” messages in Windows 95. They say that the program I am running has caused an “internal page fault” or a “general protection fault”. Oh, no! What have I done? —G.H. Answer: Remember when Sesame Street had those cute segments on the merits of sharing? Well, if […]
Question: After the computer fires up and the desktop is on the screen, I get two messages. Both in boxes. The first message box has far.exe in the top right-hand corner with a circle and red X beneath and states: “Could not find ‘far.exe’ (or one of its components). Make sure path and filename are […]
Question: A friend of mine has a Pentium 100 machine with 16MB RAM, and comes with Windows 95. He tried to install MS-DOS 6.1 into C:DOS which already has MS-DOS 6.22 in there. After installation was completed, the computer was rebooted and he could not get into Windows. The following message appeared: “This version of […]
Question: Recently, you told a reader that updating his printer drivers would stop his LaserJet 4ML from spitting out an extra page after every print job. I am willing to bet a case of Rickard’s Red Ale that I have a better solution. See if you agree. –Maurice Hilarius, Hard Data Ltd. Answer: While I […]
Question: Hi, TechnologyTips. I have a question regarding the “open with” command in Windows 95. I opened an unregistered file with Notepad, just to view the file. However, I forgot to uncheck the “always open with” check box. Now every time I look at that file it always opens it with Notepad. Is there any […]
