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Help w/ permissions in Win95?

Oct 28th, 2006

I am only able to access drive "D" as read only. As far as I know, no multiple user permissions have been set up on this PC, and I've no idea how to change them. Could this possibly be spyware? If so, how would I go about removing it? Once again, this computer is running Windows 95.

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Re: Help w/ permissions in Win95?

Oct 29th, 2006

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Originally Posted by bnrup

I am only able to access drive "D" as read only. As far as I know, no multiple user permissions have been set up on this PC, and I've no idea how to change them. Could this possibly be spyware? If so, how would I go about removing it? Once again, this computer is running Windows 95.

usually drive d: is the cdrom ,so i assume you d: is another hard drive ,and it will not let you use it for storage .right .

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Oct 30th, 2006

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Originally Posted by caperjack

usually drive d: is the cdrom ,so i assume you d: is another hard drive ,and it will not let you use it for storage .right .

Yes, the hard drive is partitioned. Here is the configuration: Drive "A" is the floppy drive, Drives "C" and "D" are local drives, and Drive "E" is the cdrom drive.

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Oct 30th, 2006

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Originally Posted by bnrup

Yes, the hard drive is partitioned. Here is the configuration: Drive "A" is the floppy drive, Drives "C" and "D" are local drives, and Drive "E" is the cdrom drive.

Its been a long time since i used win95 not sure about permissions ,and the multiple users was a bit flakey if at all possiable .did it work the right way at one time for you ! ,also just for the heck of it im loading win95 on a machine with 2 partitions to check it out .i will post back in awhile if i find anything out .

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Oct 30th, 2006

Win95 installed and second drive d:\ works fine im able to read and writ to the drive ,still looking for info on one being set read only.
might i suggest ,right clicking on the drive ,go to/properties/ tools ,and run the thorough scandisk

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in a search i found software to set a drive readonly for network security reasons ,maybe some type of software is being used on yours .
http://www.topshareware.com/Lock-Dri...load-39509.htm

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Originally Posted by caperjack

Win95 installed and second drive d:\ works fine im able to read and writ to the drive ,still looking for info on one being set read only.
might i suggest ,right clicking on the drive ,go to/properties/ tools ,and run the thorough scandisk

The disk used to work fine, it is only recently acting up. As this is only a home computer (I have another one running WinXP), I can't imagine any reason for there to be some kind of locking software on there.
I also have all of the OS reloading disks, but I would like to avoid that option if all possible.

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Oct 30th, 2006

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I also have all of the OS reloading disks, but I would like to avoid that option if all possible.

Cant imagin why you would have to reload windows ,isn't the os on the c:\ drive and d:\ ,drive just a storage drive .
did you run the scandisk on drive d:\

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Oct 30th, 2006

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Originally Posted by caperjack

did you run the scandisk on drive d:\

I also have Norton SystemWorks installed (it was a top-end computer back in it's day). Should I run the Norton ScanDisk, the standard windows Scandisk, or both?

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Re: Help w/ permissions in Win95?

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Oct 30th, 2006

There is also the possibility that this machine is chuck full of spyware and viruses. I use this computer for internet access. The problem is that although I do have Norton SystemWorks, including virusscan, the definitions are several years out of date. I also have Spybot S&D 1.3 installed, which runs very slowly but did detect a few things. Could you possibly reccomend a virus program that can update but also runs on Win95?