games don' t work anymore

What operating system are you running now, and what games are you trying to get to run? If they're older, DOS-based games, it can be very annoying to get them to work, but if they're windows-based, they should work.

windows 98, and strange thing is everyone of these games has worked in the past. one thought that i hav is that too much is running in the backround and taking up so much ram (i only have 128, its an old pc) that the games can't run anymore.

isn't there some thing i can type in the run button (start menu) that'll allow me to permanently close programs that usually start up on their own so that they don't come back?

thanks.

Start
RUN
type in MSCONFIG Press OK or hit ENTER
Click on STARTUP tab
Uncheck anyting you do not wish to start up at startup.

LEAVE LOADPOWERPROFILER checked or your computer will not shut down properly all the time.

GOOD LUCK!!!

i guess my hard drive had errors or something on it, because after i checked it for errors my games worked again.
thanks for your help!

Originally posted by AlecL:
i guess my hard drive had errors or something on it, because after i checked it for errors my games worked again.
thanks for your help!

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So what exactly did you do? I've been having the same problems.

probably ran a scandisk and checked "fix errors automaticly" and also did a thorough scan.
systemtools-scandisk

Any problems running Scandisk - run it from Safe Mode :

http://www.laplink.com/support/kb/article.asp?ID=102

Run Scandisk and Defrag from Safe Mode - then boot into Windows and retry your games.

i just went into safe mode and scanned my hard drive for errors and then defragmented it