problems opening applications.

[stevemac]

My problems started after installimg MS Visual studio 6 professional. I have a pentium 200 with 64mb, 4Gb HD. After the instillation was completed succesfully, i tried to restart but my PC wouldn't. I had to start in safe mode and uninstall using studis own uninstaller. Now i find i can't open some heavy applications such as explorer, real player, ms word, borland c++ unless i run AOL beforehand. Even AOL takes about 5 minutes to load up. I've also expereineced some shutting down problems. I'd be greatfull of any advice.

[Dan1]

Steve,

Look carefully at the package for VS (or the CD case). Somewhere it tells you which operating systems version 6 of VS is compatible with. Same thing happened to me. I had version 5 installed on my Win95 system. This was ok as version 5 was compatible with Win95. Version 6 of VS only works with Win98/Win NT. Unfortunately, once I installed version 6 onto my 95 system I had to do a complete reinstall of 95 to correct the problems. I tried several other things before the reinstall but the system behaved strangely until I reinstalled 95.

Hope this helps.

Dan

[stevemac]

Thanks for the advice Dan.