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ArgonV Pilot	posted 11-19- 07:25 PM Well, it seems Explorer (Not Internet Explorer) somehow got fucked up. My computer would "lag" for 30 or so seconds everytime I would delete, rename, or move something. I didnt do a whole format of my main hard drive (It would of taken forever to get my system back up and running the way I like it) so instead I just over wrote Windows 98 with a new installation. It wasnt hard or anything to do... IT JUST TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET EVERYTHING THE WAY IT WAS! Luckily I have my CD-ROM DOS drivers in the autoexec and config (They were remed out) so I didnt have to hunt them down to get the Win98 CD to work in DOS. I did have to reinstall many things however so Windows would be happy (And me) But thats a good idea to do that anyways just to be sure... I believe now I have everything up and running like I want it, but Im going to go triple check everything now. IP: Logged
Smokey Pilot	posted 11-19- 10:14 PM I've had this same thing happen and the re-install is the only solution I have found. Usualy eats up the better part of a Saturday to do it. One thing that seems to help is to run scandisk and disk defrag reguarly. Also, never let your hard drive get under 80 megs free space which is required for windows use. IP: Logged
ArgonV Pilot	posted 11-19- 10:42 PM The exact same thing happened to you? Hmm... that's odd indeed... I did defrag during the night, and when both of my hard drives where done defragging (FINALLY) the problem was fixed for about 1 hour. Then it started lagging again when I deleted, moved or renamed files. Thus got fed up with it and reinstalled Windows 98. It does eat up alot of time doing all of the reinstalling crap, its not hard, just frusterating... I defrag my hard drives 1 every month and scandisk regularly. Although if you think about it... scandisk doesnt really fix anything, just makes the problem it finds into free space or shoves it into a filecheck file. (Some soulution to corrupted files eh?) IP: Logged
Spanky the Mad Dog Pilot	posted 11-20- 01:28 AM Spanky here.. Argon, Alot of newer computers can boot off cd rom. Even without drivers it seems. Like the bios has it built in or something. I have booted off the cdrom to install win98. Note that they are supposed to support it but I'm not sure how often it actually works. It has worked for me though so thats a good sign. I'm thinking right after i reinstall win98, shortly and get all the small stuff installed and running. Like icq, internet connection, winzip and all that crap. Of doing a backup that you can install and it totally gets you back up and running, I know theres a way to do it I just have to learn. LOL I think its ghosting a drive. You don't have to reinstall windows next time nor all that stuff. Just get it all set up short of games and large apps. IP: Logged
Mirthain Pilot	posted 11-20- 10:52 AM You got it spanky.... Ghosting... norton makes a nice one... You do need to keep a partition for the images, but then you don't have to reinstall, you just run ghost, then reghost from where you saved the image. ------------------ Mirthain=FC= IP: Logged
Spanky the Mad Dog Pilot	posted 11-20- 12:02 PM Spanky here.. Actually I'm buring the image and ghost onto a CDR and making that CDR bootable. Slap the disk in and it runs ghost commandline from autoexec.bat and installs the image itself. Now that is going to kick some MAJOR ass. I'll reinstall all the time then. IP: Logged
Da Jug head Pilot	posted 11-27- 10:35 AM Ever wonder why you have to reinstall 98 every so often? I use Systemsuite2000 and after one week of computer usage- no installs or uninstalls, I'll have 50 to 100 items in my registry that can be safely removed. Registry was a good idea, but a suck *** implementation. Thank goodness Linux is progressing so fast. Like I said on another post, I now have most of my productivity software moved over. I ran Mandrake 7.1 for over a year with no OS crashes or lockups (occasionally a program would, but Xkill is a wonderful thing). I just uprgaded it to 7.2. In the same time period I had to reinstall 98 2 times and use SystemSuite to repair it inumerable times. Uncle Bill needs to be severely beaten about the head & shoulders until he quits releasing such crap to the public. NT's much better but- no 3D games cuz it uses older versions of DirectX. IP: Logged
FighterTux Cadet	posted 12-19- 10:01 AM Windows sucks full stop! Its a sub-standard piece of crap software that they could never stabilise. What the hell were the MS programmers on? I am with you, having to use Windows for games (I can get all the other software on Linux for free). Why the hell should we always have to use disk defrag and scandisk? Thats so crappy, especially considering Unix from the '70s could keep its filesystem in better shape! Die windows, die... IP: Logged
Da Jug head Pilot	posted 12-23- 01:12 PM "Die windows, die..." A slow and agonizing death. ------------------ "Where'd he GO!?!?" thunk-thunk-thunk-zing-OUCH That answered my question IP: Logged
Falck Pilot	posted 12-23- 08:28 PM Not that I like being the defender of MS but windows 2000 is much more stable than the 9x/Me series. Its never bluescreened on me. IP: Logged

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