please don't laugh

jjmorici · 10-09-2004, 04:21 PM

i'm running a 450 mhz, with a 6.5 gig hard drive, ok it's the kids computer. win 98 and nothing fancy. i want to format the drive, wipe it clean and install win 98 se. lately i've been getting just a few invalid page faults in kernel 32.dll, also re-starting the computer has been taking alot longer to boot than before, and i haven't really done anything to cause it to slow up. one intresting thing is when it finally does boot and it's all loaded, the first time you click on the blue e it takes a good couple minutes to display my homepage. after it loads the homepage, you can sign off and close i.e. then click again on the blue e and it loads right up with virtually no wait time. anyway my question is i need a step by step guide as to what i need to do to make my install of 98 se as clean as possible. anything i might need to fix or delete or whatever prior to fdisking and formatting thanks so much for not laughing to loud thanks john

joat1 · 10-09-2004, 04:28 PM

Scan your computer with an antivirus program with all definition updates. If you do not have one, then use Trend Micro’s House Call Online AV Scanner.

Download Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, and Hijack This.

Install Adaware and Spybot -- update the definitions for each program before running.

Reboot after using each program.

Close all running programs and run HiJack This, click on "Scan" and save your Hijack Log to the Desktop, where you can find it easily.

Open your saved log, copy it and paste it in the Security, Anti-virus HiJack This forum.

**kodi** · 10-09-2004, 04:44 PM

If you don't want to take the previous good advice and still want to do a clean install goHERE
It is a lengthy item but scroll down to where it tell you to f/disk and follow the instructions from there.
If you have any problems don't hesitate to come back for more help

jjmorici · 10-09-2004, 05:45 PM

i'll do exactly what you reccomended. thanks guys for the quick response

10-09-2004, 04:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
jjmorici Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 7 OS: win 98	please don't laugh i'm running a 450 mhz, with a 6.5 gig hard drive, ok it's the kids computer. win 98 and nothing fancy. i want to format the drive, wipe it clean and install win 98 se. lately i've been getting just a few invalid page faults in kernel 32.dll, also re-starting the computer has been taking alot longer to boot than before, and i haven't really done anything to cause it to slow up. one intresting thing is when it finally does boot and it's all loaded, the first time you click on the blue e it takes a good couple minutes to display my homepage. after it loads the homepage, you can sign off and close i.e. then click again on the blue e and it loads right up with virtually no wait time. anyway my question is i need a step by step guide as to what i need to do to make my install of 98 se as clean as possible. anything i might need to fix or delete or whatever prior to fdisking and formatting thanks so much for not laughing to loud thanks john

10-09-2004, 04:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
kodi Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 7,397 OS: Windows 7-Ultimate 64 Bit My System	If you don't want to take the previous good advice and still want to do a clean install goHERE It is a lengthy item but scroll down to where it tell you to f/disk and follow the instructions from there. If you have any problems don't hesitate to come back for more help __________________ Brian

10-09-2004, 04:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
joat1 Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 160 OS: WinXP,Gentoo,Win98SE	Scan your computer with an antivirus program with all definition updates. If you do not have one, then use Trend Micro’s House Call Online AV Scanner. Download Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, and Hijack This. Install Adaware and Spybot -- update the definitions for each program before running. Reboot after using each program. Close all running programs and run HiJack This, click on "Scan" and save your Hijack Log to the Desktop, where you can find it easily. Open your saved log, copy it and paste it in the Security, Anti-virus HiJack This forum.

10-09-2004, 05:45 PM	#4 (permalink)
jjmorici Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 7 OS: win 98	i'll do exactly what you reccomended. thanks guys for the quick response