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Stormson
07-11-2000, 06:12 PM
Hello!

I have a number of old 486's that were on some type of network,that I'm trying to refurbish... Thing is every thing goes fine till I try to execute a progie from floppy. I get a pop-up saying this program canceled because of restrictions in place on this computer. I used Killcmos to remove any passwords and set floppy access to "user",then I reformated and reinstalled windows95 with the bios set for user access to floppy but still got the same thing...

ANY help would be greatly apreceated as I REALLY dont want to be stuck with a bunch of 486's I cant use...

TIA,

Stormson

glc
07-11-2000, 07:39 PM
Check and make sure that the floppy drives haven't been hooked up using the "B" connectors on the cable. We used to do this in a classroom so the kiddies wouldn't load viruses on the workstations.

Stormson
07-11-2000, 07:55 PM
No its one of those dual floppy drives with only one connection for both A and B, also I forgot to mention that the floppies are fine and I CAN load .txt files from them,but I get that nessage whenever I try to execute an .exe file...

bob
07-12-2000, 10:10 AM
You must use Poledit to remove the restrictions. It is on the install CD

Stormson
07-12-2000, 10:40 PM
Thanx Professer! But,what do I do? I've installed Poledit on the machine,and set everything for user acsess,and I still get the same thing.... What am I doing wrong???