Freecell & Solitarie

[Amy Cheung]

My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
Freecell program is working properly for a while.
Recently, she click "new game" and the pc hangs. I have
tried re-install it by it's still the same. Solitarie also
shows the same problem. Otherwise, minesweepers and hearts
are working prefectly fine. I use Trend Micro Housecall
anti-virus scan and the system is virus free. Is there any
solutions to it?

[Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email d]

On Fri, 28 May 2004 07:54:30 -0700, "Amy Cheung"
> wrote:

>My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
>Freecell program is working properly for a while.
>Recently, she click "new game" and the pc hangs. I have
>tried re-install it by it's still the same. Solitarie also
>shows the same problem. Otherwise, minesweepers and hearts
>are working prefectly fine. I use Trend Micro Housecall
>anti-virus scan and the system is virus free. Is there any
>solutions to it?

Perhaps try running SFC (System File Checker) type SFC at the Run
dialogue.

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Sincerely,

Andrew H. Carter

[Anthony Buckland]

Amy Cheung wrote:
> My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
> Freecell program is working properly for a while.
> Recently, she click "new game" and the pc hangs. I have
> tried re-install it by it's still the same. Solitarie also
> shows the same problem. Otherwise, minesweepers and hearts
> are working prefectly fine. I use Trend Micro Housecall
> anti-virus scan and the system is virus free. Is there any
> solutions to it?

My biggest problems with the old games under Windows 98
(98SE, actually) had to do with using a screen saver.
I soon switched to just having the screen go to black
after a reasonable number of minutes. You could try
switching your screen saver off and see what happens.

[Michael Gambie]

>-----Original Message-----
>My Mom's pc is using Office 2000 and Window 98. The
>Freecell program is working properly for a while.
>Recently, she click "new game" and the pc hangs. I have
>tried re-install it by it's still the same. Solitarie
also
>shows the same problem. Otherwise, minesweepers and
hearts
>are working prefectly fine. I use Trend Micro Housecall
>anti-virus scan and the system is virus free. Is there
any
>solutions to it?
>.
>Hi Amy. Its probably a coincidence but I also had a
problem with both Solitaire and Freecell. both programs
not working but Minesweeper and Hearts were OK. I ran SFC
as suggested by Andrew which whilst locating and fixing
two corrupt files failed to solve the problem. I finally
tracked it down to McAfee PGP which I had loaded from a
magazine disc. When said program had been disabled
everything was back to normal. Well there is a suprise. So
the million dolllar question is have you or your Mother
recently loaded any new software?