Can't start Corel Xara anymore

[athena]

While we're talking about Windows and the net,

Which program put WSCRIPT in my win 98SE? Was it always there in 98SE and I just now finally caught on?

I ask because any time I try to use Norton Speed Disk on my C: drive, the speed disk program will re-start and re-start without accomplishing anything. (speed disk does fine on the other drives but only on C: )I do Ctrl-Alt-Del and end task on wscript and qwdll. . .something or other.

I'm guessing the qwdll came from Quicken.

I just wondered about wscript.

Athena

[Sean Sedwards]

Athena

I wasn't sure whether WSCRIPT was in memory before or only after running Speed Disk, i.e. whether it was part of the Speed Disk process. If it's part of Speed Disk and you shut it down while Speed Disk is running, it may only appear to have solved the problem. WSCRIPT doesn't do anything on its own - it's invoked by another program to run a script. That other program could be Speed Disk, Quicken or something else that you haven't mentioned. If you can be bothered, try shutting down just one program at a time to find the rogue.

I use real DOS when I want to be certain about what's happening, such as when fixing low level problems. I also keep a variety of DOS utilities that duplicate Windows programs so that I can work and / or recover a Windows failure. I have a number of DOS CAD programs that work much faster than their Windows equivalents, so I have no intention of 'upgrading' them. I've found no great need for additional features, so I continue to use MS Works 2 for my spreadsheet requirements, even though I have Excel and Lotus 123.

Regards - Sean

[jon spain]

Having had this problem, the Norton speeddisk restart problem can arise where there is a virus background monotor (even Norton's own program) in memory. Alternatively, the problem may go away if you do run "Start|Run|sd32.exe /reset / noanimation" (I got this from Symantec). Although it worked for me, I now use Ontrack for this.

Am I the only person still using QEdit 2.15 in DOS? It works fasssssst (although I sometimes use version 4 for a bit more power). Some of my images are flowcharts which come into Inspiration as indented text files (from QEdit) and are exported to JPG format when I have the boxes, text and colours and whatever as I want them. Otherwise, i would have stopped using text!

Jon