is there any way of cleaning my registry for free? i've tried scans off reg.
cleaners and they all say i have around 200 problems but i am flat broke and
can't afford to pay for a clean until the end of the month. can anybody help
me please? thanks

I have vanilla Win98 running on an older IBM Thinkpad (with a whopping
96M of memory) and have, on occassion, wanted to use /share several USB
devices, like an external HD and a DVD burner, but they all require the
advanced USB support of 98SE.  A friend gave me an unused, sealed, ...

I thought I had posted this question but cannot find it any where so here I
go again.
My elderly neighbours HP Pavilion 6611 is making a vibrating sound on
startup sometimes. We have cleaned the fans.  It just went dead when he was

When I hold F8 during bootup to get to the start up mode selection screen I
get a "Safe Mode" boot in either "Normal" or "Safe Mode".  However, the "Safe
Mode" boot that I get from "Normal" mode does not have the "Safe Mode"
annotation on the corners of the desktop screen but it ...

has anyone noticed that adaware tells fibs?
in the last 4 months or so, i've noticed when doing updates
that Adaware says I havent updated for 'x' days, yet the next day
it will say something quite the opposite.

Hi, i got the following error while trying to reinstall Win98Se on my
old computer, along with the SU0410 referral. What can I do to fix or
repair the inf file or something about editing, but it is on a restore
CD. Anyway, I know this OS is getting old but need to get it

Hello!  I went to the ACDSee site looking for info on why the program
hijacks my Paint generated documents.  It is 'guarded' by a demand for
signing in (not). The program came bundled with my HP ScanJet 4470. It
is version 3., and the present version is 7 or 8 I believe.  I only

My pop-up start menu disappears after a few seconds, not long enough to get
the cursor to the shortcut I need. TIA.

have WIN98SE on a Compaq P3.  Used an Envision LCD monitor on it for a few
months.  Needed to switch with an Envision CRT monitor  temporarily.  Loaded
the drivers for the CRT monitor, now during boot up I get the following error
message " Display- There is a problem with your ...

How can I boot into 800x600 Safe Mode?
Or
How can I boot into Safe Mode then switch to 800x600 while in Safe Mode?

I am using Win98SE2 in my company as there is some Novell log in and also
the Win98Se2 is nice to use.
Yet the hard disk C: has been used for 4 years. I was wondering I should
move to a new hard disk.

If I am doing something, Windows will crash so then I have to reboot but
then after Windows starts to reboot, it will say on the boot screen that
"Windows has completed updating files, continuing to reload Windows".
How can I find out what files have been updated?

My pc has recently started to lock up when I turn it on.  It happens
right when a splash screen for Sony abCD software pops up.  (I've had
this software installed for years, but I'm very willing to do without
it!)

i bought a used pc and don't have a domain number? how do i de-frag it so
that all the stuff that was already on it  before i owned it can be removed.
it crashes all the time now and runs extremely slow. i nead a registry
cleaner because i've been told off various things that i've ...

For PCR & Bill Blanton in particular.
Hi guys,
Re the old thread April 20-23 and your final words.
It was the /MBR switch to fdisk which made my spare drive bootable. I then