I hear that some people are having problems with running older model PC's.. so I put this together to help them out ...
For people running Windows 98se in an obsolete PC.. this simple formula should give your Computering and Interneting a Big Boost of confidence...
I self taught myself the computer.. by that painful and infamous "trial and error" method...
I had enough cumulative grief to sink a healthy whale to the sea bottom...
There were times I really wanted to fling the whole computer out the window...
I purchased PC's at garage sales for pennies.. and learned what not to do with PC's by destroying them..
Then I'd be out early the next Saturday shopping for more old PC's to kill...
I think I tried everything you can do to wreck a PC.. and pretty much all those operating system destroyer software downloads... I must have formatted-C over a hundred times... And now I think I've finally got it... I hope!..
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SOLUTION FOR RUNNING A SMOOTH FAST WINDOWS 98se ON AN OBSOLETE COMPUTER...
...There's a lot of good new-stuff is out there on the Net now, and it's getting better by the hour...
Very first thing to do after you've loaded an operating system is to download a copy of "Tiny Personal Firewall", and put it onto a floppy...
If you are getting ready to erase the hard drive, you probably need to save all your treasures first... In this case, erasing the hard drive is sort of like "flushing the PC's toilet"...
Next thing to do is to surf, "Clean load Windows 98", and READ it all at least three times.. and print out some copies for reference, to be there in front of you should you run into troubles...
Make a copy, on paper, of your Internet data and settings...
Move all conventional audio speakers at least six feet from the computer... and keep your floppies away from those powerful floppy and hard drive erasing magnets...
Never drink things over the keyboard... One little splash, and the keyboard is probably dead and gone... If that happens, Flip the keyboard over ASAP.. wipe it off clean.. and gently dry it with the hair drier... And you WILL need to take it apart, and do an extensive cleanup on and in it, or your keys will be all sticking as the sugary mess dries inside...
It takes about 1.5 hours to first-time properly clean a spill out of a keyboard.. and still there's always that 20% chance that it's destroyed...
It's a good plan to always have an spare keyboard and mouse on hand...
Get them at garage sales for a dollar each...
If you get achy mouse-wrist.. then get yourself a Logitech Marble Mouse, for no-more sore-wrist......
Save all your precious files and favorites, or bookmarks, on floppies or CD...
*Make a fresh new startup floppy, *from a bug-free computer...
To format the hard drive.. restart in MS DOS command mode... type in "format C:", and hit enter... That erases almost everything on the hard drive... everything but invisible traces, that only experts can find...
If you are real Brave.. shut 'er off, open the case, and pull the battery for half hour.. to clean out the rest of the nasties that got into your PC's hard systems.. so you won't forever be haunted by those demons...
If the battery is soldered-in, there's a little removable black plastic coupling that you move to other pins to cancel the battery... Search your motherboard on the Net to find which pins to use... Wait an hour, then reinstall the battery, or replace the connector to original setting... CHECK that all connectors are tight into their connections...
Keep your fingers off the transistors!... Some transistors really don't like to be touched... Static from your fingers hitting them, would be like lightning hitting you... Fry a moss-Q with static from your fingers, and your PC is History!.. unless you've got a pocket full of money... and if you did, then you wouldn't be reading this...
Make sure the fans are running smooth and clean... New fans are cheap... I pull old computers from the trash, whenever I see one that seems to have parts I might need... but you can be sure they are e-virus infected... Don't plug their HD's into your PC... If you do, you'll probably need to pull the battery, after erasing the HD, if they are holding any boot-bugs...
Pop in the Windows 98 CD, and the new bootup floppy.. and give 'er... then install the Internet, then add the W98se update CD... Babysit the installs...
This is where I usually have some problems in getting the Ethernet modem to engage... Usually a couple restarts, and changing settings in Internet options and Network options, fixes the problems...
The method I use to get this irritating DSL card to take, is I first load the W98 CD after running the fdisk command.. Then I plug the Internet card into a different slot, and restart.. is when it usually installs properly, without any undo grief... If it didn't, then I shut down , and slip it into another slot, till the computer recognizes the new hardware... From there I go to control panel's Network and Internet settings, and only pray it works... make up your own prayer...
If you just can't get an Internet connection, and your walls and windows have had condensation problems, check the wall phone-connectors for green-corrosion... Green corrosion means you must replace it... Do it yourself... If you get the telephone company to repair it, they'll bill you 50-bucks or more... Phone 'em, and ask if they charge to do it...
Now it's time to clean-up the mess... Run Scandisk.. Run Standard and Fix Errors.. Uncheck "Thorough"... or run it on thorough at least once, but it can take an hour or more... But fdisk already did that, if you formated when fdisk instructed you to... If it didn't, and you didn't, there is a good chance that you will be doing a buggy reload... Go back, and start again...
If you get popup warnings while reloading a fresh new OS, this is the time to stop, and start back at square one, to get rid of something that might mess up the system forever...
After the OS is working good, run Defrag...
In Defrag's settings *uncheck "sort programs"... which seems to mess-up the operating system after it has become comfortable with how the PC has placed its engines and peripherals... Or you might want to run sort the first time only...
If defrag doesn't work, then download PowerDefrag...
Now install your Antivirus CD, and that floppy with Little Firewall on it...
Set Little Firewall to block everything, and pop-up a message for everything that wants to contact the Internet...
Then get the trial download of BlackIce Firewall...
Next thing is to get yourself "Mozilla SeaMonkey"... The King of Browsers.. for fast carefree fun Internet work and play... SeaMonkey is Loaded with "knock yer socks off" features.. and they are adding new features monthly, sometimes daily...
Add Microsoft Office 2000 CD, or your available word processing softwares...
Now surf the Net for the "W98se unofficial update".. and check all the boxes, and install the whole thing... *Save that download on your desktop, or right click> copy, and paste it into a new folder... Check to see that you've stored a file, not just a shortcut, before you delete the one on the desktop... I always save my big downloads on the desktop for a couple months, till I'm sure I won't need them, or load them all to a CD... They don't load the desktop...
A modified version of Tweak-UI for W98se is in the "unofficial 98se updates download"...
It's WISE to have a Router between your PC and the Internet... It stops most of the evils out-there from even finding your PC... and your software firewall never alerts you to attacks, cuz there just aren't any...
This is where the bored badboy mini-hacker takes my statements as bragging and a challenge, and me sees me as a target, and jumps-in, and attacks my PC, just to show me that my PC is really not as safe as I thought.. and manages to mess-up few things in the PC, but RegistryCleaner repairs it... Get a Router.. it helps.. but it's not perfect.. nothing is...
Check for used routers on eBay... For eBay you need a credit card.. and it takes a little time, and a little pain in the butt, to register... but Get registered at eBay ASAP...
I never open Outlook Express nor Internet Explorer (OE & IE)... I use Little Firewall to fully block them from the Internet.. and I just leave them in in the back-room, making the W98 system run reasonably smooth and fast.. and for downloading from Microsoft.. and because HP printer CD install says it needs IE6 to function...
All my email work is done in Mozilla SeaMonkey and FastMail email accounts... You can fully Trust FastMail.. and their web pages aren't full of all that mind boggling time-wasting slow-loading advertising and news garbage... And whenever there are ads, I block them with SeaMonkey's image blocker tool...
Caution.. You CAN'T safely remove Internet Explorer nor Outlook Express from the system... They are INTEGRAL parts of the Windows98 operating system... Don't do it.. or you Will be formating the hd, and reloading the operating system...
And don't go deleting stuff you don't know about... just let it rest where and how it is... Deleting a few unnecessary pix and files in the operating system won't do anything to speed up your machine... Leave it all be till you are a computer expert... Deleting certain system pix can seriously damage the operating system.. seems they have bits of the OS with them...
As you get better in understanding the PC, you can go into RUN, Regedit, and Find all the .coms and "@"'s that prove to be parts of email addresses, and delete those Internet contacts if you intend to work on maintaining your privacy... But if you start messing in the registry, make a registry backup first.. and expect to have to format the whole thing, and start all over again... but it's one way to learn what not to do... The backup can restore the messes you made in the registry...
Get a good firewall... ZoneAlarm doesn't work with Norton and Mozilla stuff... so forget about ZoneAlarm... Try "Black Ice"... It doesn't use up too much memory like some do.. and it's reliable, powerful, and full featured, but not perfect...
Now you need a good antivirus scanner/cleaner...
I tried F-Secure.. Nice combo Firewall/AVS software, but it always crashed near the end of an hour long scan, in W98.. It seems it's not for old W98, till they fix the glitches to make it run in an antique low-ram OS... but who would want to waste the time..? F-Secure is for the newer more powerful operating systems and boxes...
I fall back to Norton's 2k AVS... because I just happen to have the CD.. and it works just fine.. almost... well sort of... but some hackers can bypass some of that Norton stuff like it isn't even there... Like the couple times they turned Norton off before trashing my PC's OS...
Now get you some new PC cleaner softwares...
"Cacheman Memory Recover" is powerful...
"Window Washer" is good...
I got "FastDefrag2".. it works super.. but some of the FD2 downloads come with a real nasty downloads manager which hurts your PC.
Avoid the "FastDefrag2" download that contains a nasty downloads manager... That download manager is right full PC OS slowing and damaging nasties... Maybe just avoid the big-mess altogether... If their junk hurts people, they won't be getting people's money... Maybe that will wake them up one day to a little reality, that it's not good for business to upset potential paying customers...
Get a Registry Cleaner.. Don't mess with the options and controls, unless you are an expert... They can clean out a lot of your important files in a flash... Read the instructions Carefully.. and know what you are doing.. Don't just run a registry cleaner, then delete everything it found, or you Will be Sorry... Registry Mechanic is reasonably safe.. but not perfect...
For spywear trojans, AdAware Personal, or Spybot is a Must Have... I chose Spybot... It's reliable as it gets... SpywareBlaster costs, but I've read that it's super too...
You'll need a downloads unzipper... There are several free compression utilities out there... The newer ones create problems in W98se... Use old stuff in W98, because W98 is old... Check out "Older Versions" web page...
If you want to play with pixel photo-retouching, try PaintBuster, PhotoImpression, or PhotoPlus8.. PP6 is a pain in the butt... PP8 has, or had, a nice little offer running, where you get a cheap cutie little pocket camera and two-CD's for $15... I got it.. it works ok, but I'd rather have a real camera... PP8 is a super photo editor...
Run your cleanup software collection every couple days... I have four registry cleaners that I'm working with, in trying to determine which one is the one for me...
Can't get rid of the windows login password..?
Go to Settings>Control>Network>Primary Network Login>Set "Family Login">Restart...
If you have any serious irreparable problems.. as a last resort, reinstall the Windows 98 CD, *saving the system... but it will likely cause a few real nasty glitches, and may well force you to format-C anyway, as the next thing you must do... Sometimes it works to start in command.. type-in the required registry/ repair code, and pick an early backup... and only hope...
You can, as a second-last resort, try to run the W98se update again as a cure-all... but those two last resort cures can really mess up your other CD and download installs.. and you'll likely have to redo each one.. or format-C again... If you run into that mess, you probably do need to format C... If you must format, then this is the time to spend a few hours experimenting with the computer, trying to fix it yourself, exploring new things that you found on the Net... This is when you learn a lot, fast... Mess it all up, destroy the OS, fool around in the registry, do what ever comes to whim.. have your fun.. then format it, fdisk it, and start over from square one... having read all the data on doing a clean install...
Should you need to delete a software from the HD.. Don't just trash it.. it can take out a lot of the Windows98 operating system with it, forcing you to reload bits of the W98 CD in system tools, in accessories>, or forcing you to start back at square one... Uninstall things Properly... First, right click properties to determine if that software is connected to any systems files... If it is, it needs be uninstalled properly... Start>Programs>Accessories>Settings>ControlPanel>Add/Remove>Reboot...
Now I hope you've got a Windows 98 PC, running about as good as it gets, until you add the various tweaks out there to download and install, which can make it a lot better.....
And stay away from German hacker sites and German site downloads... They'll kill your PC in a blink.. even sometimes just by visiting their web pages... Those German Hacker kids are powerful wizards, with their super destructive computer destroying technologies... They could make WW4 on the Internet... They live in a world of their own... They should have their own private WW4 Internet... I don't know even a thousandth of what they know... I wish I did...
Find your "TweakUI" program in ControlPanel.. and configure it to taste... Careful! It's a very powerful tool... Read the instructions well... Should you mess-up, you can always fall back on your RegistryCleaner registry repair, IF you've made a registry backup with its rescue feature, or in accessories>system info... On second thought, just leave TweakUI as it is... It's not a toy... Unless you make notes of everything you do.. Then you can probably handle the trip...
Now.. Go through SeaMonkey's Preferences, and get a clear picture of everything in Preferences.. and make changes to suit your tastes... then go to themes, and change it to classic if you like classic, and restart SeaMonkey...
Run: Scandisk, Defrag, Cacheman Memory-Recover, a Registry Cleaner, and Defrag...
NEVER open an email attachment.. And delete every suspect email, before opening it, when it's from someone you don't know, don't want to know, or don't trust.. especially receipts to emails you sent.. and offers that are too good to be true.. Never open them.. Just delete them...
This where "curiosity kills the cat's PC", or not... I instantly delete messages that state my email wasn't delivered, without opening them...
Some bad-boys send nasties to PC's that way... I'm getting about one emailed nasty per day... It's like someone is mailing me "beetles"...
In my email accounts I've set the preferences to auto delete all spams and bulk mail garbage... I rarely have to view any of the garbage... it all gets instantly delivered to the trash... and the crap that does get through, I set to block, by tagging it as spam...
Should you get an email instructing you to delete an icon... That's a scam fake virus.. to trick the user to deleting part of the operating system... Always do an Internet search for every warning and every popup... key the address in a web search, adding "virus scam" to the phrase...
Checkout the "Block Images" feature in SeaMonkey... There are a lot of fine features in SeaMonkey's right-click... Those guys are state of the art computer wizards.. except for the grumpy one "in his cross"...
When you receive a 419 Scam-letter, which claims that it needs your help to recover a multi-million dollar account.. that is a criminal's money-sucking conjob scam... Simply copy it with *full-headers.. and paste in forward.. and send it to <abuse@their providers>... It keeps the evil-ones out of the loop for a while... The provider cancels their email service... Generally they use freebie email accounts, like hotmail and, yahoo... It's all they can afford... They can acquire another free email address in about five minutes.. but the doors are closed on that last one...
Sometimes I surf their scam, and surf and copy the authority's data on their scam, and paste it all in the reply, and send it all back at them.. but that's not such a good idea, because now it tells them that your email address is an active one.. and now they will start sending you virus emails... I was receiving two 419-Scam emails per day for months... Now I get about one per week...
You can tell a scam... The con sells you up on a deal that there's a lot of money to be had, if and when something in the greedy culture breaks free...
He sells and sells his scheme to elderly folks and suckers, then sells it some more... And just when his intended victims begin to squawk about his plan seeming to never show any success, he sends all his suckers an email, stating that his multi-million dollar booty is as ready as it can be, and ripe for picking.. it's just that he needs a little working capital to get at that huge money package, to get it released from a fictitious bank or source... He asks his victims for a little loan, of about 10-grand each... He cashes his couple million dollars in cheques, and vanishes... There are a few who have established in their sucker's minds that there is a blob of money as secret and illusive as the definition of the Christian god... He sells them and sells them, for years.. then asks for the 10-grand.. then scoots with his millions.. to a stable third world nation.. where he retires in luxury...
Should you get that "gimme-gimme letter", from someone you think you trust and respect, and you still aren't convinced that it's a scam.. telephone that bank, and ask to speak to the bank manager... Ask him if this guy's project is real, or just a scam to rob elderly folks of their life savings... 99% of the time you'll find that bank doesn't even exist... or that business doesn't even exist... Just gaping mouthed parasites, blindly swimming around in the Web, hoping to attach to a victim.. like the lamprey attaches to a lake erie perch...
Or you might ask that person right to his face, "Is this a scam?".. And watch what he does with eyes... If he glances side to side, that means he was flashing on an escape route... means it's a scam...
Crashes usually happen when you don't give the PC time to fulfill commands... I've found that when crashes start to occur frequently, the cure is to simply run all the cleanup software... If that doesn't help, it's likely that your PC has a deep boot-bug... Reloading the system probably will just mess things up worse... Best procedure, is to learn how to not let bugs get into your computer... If your PC caught a bug, that it cannot fix.. use the next hours to play with the system, trying your best to fix it, and learning what not to do, and taking notes.. Before you format C...
After a Crash, run Spybot, Reg Mechanic, an AVS, and CCleaner... and maybe run yesterday's registry backup...
With a Mac.. after I load a bunch of Mac software, I reload the CD I made of all the Mac updates.. It seems to act as a cure-all... Especially after I've done a lot of downloading, installing, and uninstalling...
Over the years I've heard a lot of experts and hackers claim that they prefer W98se over the newer systems.. because it's a simple reliable system, after they've done a few deep fixes, and have learned how to maintain it properly.. and they've learned it inside-out...
Some wise expert-users, strip the W98 system down to its bare essentials, to give them a fast clean simple W98se... I try to do that with download softwares.. It makes the system run a little faster and cleaner, but it's tough getting into their locked files, to shovel out the brown...
The thing for the novice to keep in mind, is that, any use of a computer OS stresses the software, mainly because all the present PC technologies still aren't perfect, and nearly everything about the PC is still in second and third generation infancy stages of development, although I'm starting to see the third generation in its sunrise-state of development, as in Mozilla SeaMonkey, which is a whole new ballgame, and a whole new way of thinking...
Heck!.. Our Species just found gas and electricity only a couple hundred years ago.. if that.. and we still don't fully know what they really are...
I can see how to make liquid electricity power cars and boats... and how we can grow synthetic replacement organs and tissues from petroleum.. and even that's not the end of it... So we can be sure that the computer has a long way to go before it's foolproof and trouble-free.. Same goes for people-evolution....
Active computer operating systems wear out like everything does... And I suspect that frequent hard starts, and thoughtless silly impatient aggressive operating of a computer, causes the OS to wear out much faster... like I've seen some seriously impatient, almost psychotic consumers hammering at the keys while the system is working on fulfilling the last barrage of unfulfilled commands.. thereby forcing a string of commands, and a "logjam", and a lockup... sort of like trying to ram a kid's school books down its throat, to save time... I suspect that rage impatience be the major cause for OS breakdown glitches in the PC...
I take my time, and maintain my patience like I'm brown-trout fly-fishing on a warm summer's early morning in a crisp green forest.. listening to the water's ripples...
I let the thing load and process its commands before I kick-it in a new direction and process... like when the truck's stuck in snow and ice, and I'm anxiously feverishly changing gears from forward to reverse, rapidly and repeatedly, I always wait till the last command is finished before giving it the next... My high-strung neighbors don't.. and they all go through a transmission, and a PC, about every three years...
*Important!.. Once you've got the thing running as smooth and fast as you can.. run RegistryCleaner.. go to tools, and to "Rescue".. and make a full registry backup, and even copy it to a floppy... and should your PC ever happen to be attacked by a bad-boy hacker, or should it catch a bug from Internet activity, do a full cleanup, then run that backup in RegistryCleaner to restore the registry back to its clean original state...
That's about it.. This PC is running smooth, and about as fast as it can... and Registry Cleaner has already repaired the messes done by two nasty hacker attacks this month... I wrote this post for my millions of computer-novice brothers and sisters, so they wouldn't need to go through the years of pain and crap I had to, to learn the computer.. and how to keep it running reasonably smooth and efficient... And in all this I didn't write any of those amazing softwares... I just copied them from the Internet and CD's, and learned how to use them... The real wizards are the ones who write those programs.. and sometimes they let us use them for free... The good ones need our Support... If you like their free softwares, send them a dollar...
If you know how to get this thing running even better, I'd Love to hear about it...
You might start a new thread in computer help forum...
The very BEST Basic and Advanced Windows Operating Systems problems solving webpage and guide that I've seen on the Net yet.. is "buds troubleshooter"... The fellow says it like it is, and doesn't leave anything out... His literary artistry in teaching the computer is a must see... In my whole life, I have have never met, nor read, someone who is so real and honest, and is so a tells it like it is "straight shooter", than the person who wrote those webpages... I am impressed!... I just wish I could find more people like that in this world...
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How to make your Internet experience a Lot safer from bullies...
Use your Mozilla SeaMonkey Compose, to write your stuff... After you have clicked that little cable-connector icon at the lower right of the browser screen, to have temporarily disconnected your PC from the Internet, for while you write... to minimize the time your PC is needlessly connected to "hell's web", susceptible to hell's wandering bully hacker spiders... Then click the little cable-icon again to instantly reconnect... Do all your posting, and whatevers, then click the icon to instantly disconnect, for while you work in compose, on your next project.. and so on... minimizing the windows of opportunity a hacker has to snoop and attack your PC... That is, if you have made any hacker enemies out-there in the spider's web, or plan to...
SeaMonkey has a super spellcheck, and several dictionary add-ons, and all the latest word-processing tools you need.. and more...
Nothing tops Mozilla-Seamonkey, the King of Browsers... and the thing actually works in "W98se"... which some self-proclaimed elitists seem to believe is already in its grave... except for those of us bound to, and still running, 100 to 600mhz, 30 to 128 meg ram, 1 to 6 gig, "steam and coal powered" antiques...
For those of us in this boat.. this simple formula for a fast smooth running reliable PC, is the ticket.. the catz portafumus-horriblus!"...
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In the topic "editing pictures"...
I stumbled in on this ink cartridge instructional video webpage...
You've probably heard about "refilling ink cartridges".. and it all probably sounds like just a big nasty nightmare...
But it's really the prices of new toner cartridges that is the nightmare...
Check this out.. <.http://www.printcountry.com/how_to.asp?cai...=PC&ref=#Videos" target="_blank">http://www.printcountry.com/how_to.asp?cai...=PC&ref=#Videos
Read the numbers on your cartridge, and download the instruction video for that cartridge...
I didn't know it was this easy...
And a couple days ago the neighbor gave me four full ink cartridge refill kits...
I read in one webpage, the first instructional cartridge refilling webpage in the Goggle search.. a fellow instructing people to ram the refill needle as deep as you can into the toner cartridge... That guy is selling refurbished toner cartridges...
Then I read in a photo retouching forum that you should never ram the needle too-deep into the cartridge, because it will puncture the filter screen, thereby destroying the cartridge, making it leak badly... That guy doesn't sell toner cartridges...
As far as the toner seller guy's purposeful misinformation.. I didn't know that people could be so upfront cruel, and still maintain a business..? Probably not for long though...
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In topic, "why would anyone want to use W98?"
For one.. It's what I got... It's all I can afford at the moment...
This antique 6-gig/600 mhz PC is running W98se FAST and SMOOTH, without any glitches, nor bugs...
And the whole thing was 99% FREE... A free PC from the local machine shop.. a free set of old CD's from my neighbor.. a good printer and sound system from the junk, (spring-cleanup).. five-year's supply of free toner from a neighbor.. an Ethernet modem from an acquaintance... A Logitech marble mouse, and Logitech remote keyboard, from a garage sale, for 2-bucks each.. a free Internet hookup to a shed, from a relative neighbor...
5-bucks for a printer patch-cord... and 25-bucks for a matching Compaq notebook with W98se already on it...
Total cost for this super running system.. 34-dollars Canadian. which is like about "2-dollars U.S."... or "four walrus skins, Two muclucks, and a carving"...
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To save the world, on a buck a day, I need to save my computer...
I angered a couple of your basic everyday Internet hacker attack bullies, by my posting wake-up calls for this human race to start opening its minds to some reality... and offering solutions and simple exercises for people to use to open their minds to more reality, to stop wrecking this planet...
It seems I've made a lot of enemies from the Numbs.. who like wrecking the planet...
Now crazy hacker bullies are sending me all kinds of electronic nasties, almost daily, in trying to wreck the operating system in this PC, probably to force me to format-C just for the grief of it, just because they don't agree with what I say, because they can't even fathom that there is a reality and a mind, and that I'm not their mummy...
The Router, Spybot, BlackIce, and Norton, seem to keep their attacks out to a degree.. but sometimes they get in, right through all that protection like it wasn't even their, probably through a badly written software's backdoor, or I'm running on administrator.. Then I am forced to run all my cleanup-softwares to restore the OS from little messes they made in the OS... Or in a worst case scenario, I am forced to format and reinstall the system... About ten hours reloading, ten hours tweaking...
The last four attacks left this PC unable to rebuild the registry from the registry backup in "Registry Cleaner", nor in Run.. and even the Registry Cleaner software-writer hasn't figured out what was done to shut down their software's registry rescue feature, and block registry restore... At their request, I uninstalled Registry Cleaner, and downloaded and installed a fresh Registry Cleaner, and it still doesn't restore the registry..?? An attack must have made a hard-change in a registry key.. but which one, is the big question... It seems that my only option to clean that hacker's bug out, is to format-C, and spend the 10 to 20-hours it takes to rebuild the system...
I figure the best way to deal with those electronic attacks is to simply run all the software cleaners, then rebuild the registry each time it happens... but sometimes it's not enough... Sometimes something that got damaged, is still damaged, even after running all those fixers and cleaners... Try Accessories>file checker.. Insert the W98se CD, and run the search for deleted files only.. re-installing them... reboot, and hope...
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"Computer crime costs $67.2 billion per year", says America's FBI... I bet it's three to ten times that figure...
