Display in Control Panel

[mike12]

HI, I am working on an older laptop computer. It is a Gateway
Pentium 150 mhz. I know it is an antique, but I am just trying to help a friend. This is the problem- I was just looking around in Display while in Control Panel. When I closed out Display, I received some kind of message that I did not pay much attention to. I believe it said something like a file is missing or corrupt. Now when I try to go back into Display, nothing happens. The other items on the Control Panel page come up, but not Display. When I ran a scan disc, it told me that there was about 200,000 bytes
in bad sectors. I guess that means the Hard drive is dying. Could that info. that was in the bad sectors have something to do with this problem ? Is there something like SFC in Windows 95 that I could run and maybe find the bad file / files ? Is there a way I could reinstall Windows 95 over top to fix the files that may be missing, or must I format, and start over ? If I did , would that fix the problem ? Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Mike

[dldz]

Hi Mike12, Have you given this a shot ? If you need to restore the Registry using ScanReg's files with win95. try this simple fix,just open a DOS prompt and type C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND -- when you get into this directory, type SCANREG\RESTORE and choose from the files available to you... go back a day or so before you got the pop up,, Reboot to restart Windows. Please repost & let us know how you do .

[mike12]

Hi dldz,
I tried what you suggested, but I could not get into the registry.
I noticed that now I can get into Display after a reboot. There are 5 items to choose from after Display opens. They are as follows: Background, Screen saver, Apperance, Chips, and Settings. If I choose any of the 5 except CHIPS, everyting is ok. But if I choose CHIPS, and then try to close CHIPS, I get the following message "An error occured while Windows was working with the Control Panel File C:\Windows\System\Desk.cpl
at this point I can not go back into Display, but when I reboot everything is ok as long as I don't try to open that CHIPS again.
The reason I have the computer is that they told me when they try to save a document in Word, it locks up, and then they can not even get back to the desktop after a reboot. I have tried to duplicate the problem, but as usual everything is working for me. My advice to them if the problem reoccurs-is going to be to delete word, and reinstall. Thanks for your suggestion, Mike

[glc]

Win95 does NOT have scanreg. It does sound like the hard drive is dying, time to start looking for a replacement.