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removing & re-installing Windows 98
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Name: Richard L. Caruso
Date: December 24, 1999 at 16:10:21 Pacific
Subject: removing & re-installing Windows 98
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Comment: Full version of Windows 98 Second Edition. I get intermittent, but consistent system lockups that generally do not respond to anything other than a cold boot. I would like to totally remove Windows 98 and then do a clean reinstall. I can run fdisk and re-partition and format my hard disk, but that should be a last resort. Does anyone have a better solution?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Jim Clark
Date: December 24, 1999 at 19:08:45 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Have you checked to see if you are loading too many things into Start Up? You may have too much stuff running simultaneously. Go into your StartUp directory and remove all the stuff you don't want running. Increase the amount of available memory you have on your computer. Increase the amount of virtual memory you have assigned Defrag your hard disk Use a good utility like Norton utilities. When you upgrade to a new O/S, or delete programs and add others, quite often, it leaves a bunch of garbage, broken links, and other things in your registry...this can cause hidden conflicts and lockups, unexpected operating errors and other tripups. Windows 98 and Win 98SE are really stable operating versions (at least compared to Win 95!). Usually, when the system gets burdened down with a lot of unnecessary stuff running at once plus running out of RAM memory or encountering misconfigured virtual memory, you can get freezeups and hangups. Try these steps first before you go and ditch the system.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Richard Caruso
Date: December 25, 1999 at 09:54:24 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Windows 98 is a full version not an upgrade Hard disk was partitioned with FDISK and formatted and has been running for about 3 months without problems. Is simply used for billing procedures with RBase 5.5 which I have used for years My system is an AMD K6400 Hard Disk is 6 gig Video card is ATI with 8 meg 64 meg of ram Onstream tape backup system Epson 900 USB printer Logitech PS2 mouse No modem No additional system utilities There is nothing on my system that should create a problem. BUT IT DID! The hard question is there any way to remove Win98 without reformatting the hard disk?
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Response Number 3
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Name: Winston
Date: December 25, 1999 at 10:57:27 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You can get a startup disk with cd-rom support at http://www.bootdisk.com and download it to floppy. Restart with the floppy, make sure you have access to the cd-rom, it bumps the cd-rom drive letter up one I think. Then just go to the c:\ prompt and start deleting. you can remove directories with rmdir command, but the directory must be empty. Then after you get all deleted, just initialize the install from cd. Good luck.
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Response Number 4
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Name: an expert
Date: December 25, 1999 at 18:54:14 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Get Windows 2000 Professional!Learn the ways of the most advanced o\s not released.To get the fullversion of this go to www.pimpx.com and enjoy nt technology before it hits stores feb. 17, 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Response Number 5
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Name: Information systems Tech
Date: December 29, 2000 at 09:10:19 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi, How can i re-install windows 98SE without re-formation or loosing any installed programs and stuff like that ???? Kindly help. Thanks
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