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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

I looked back at one of the emails that you sent me yesterday and from
that it appears that you are using Windows 98. If that is the case,
you may be on a pretty old machine. Could be a system board, could be
not worth fixing, I'd need to know more.

Try a few software things first. Delete the temporary internet files
and cookies. Delete anything the the temp directory ( c:\windows\temp
and\or c:\temp )

When you reinstall Windows, you can choose to format the disk and
reload a fresh copy, or you can install over the current copy, you can
also instasll a parallel copy, keeping the current copy.

Confirm the version of Windows you are using.

Rob

On 10/24/06, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Bev,
>
> What version of Windows?
>
> Rob - Va
>
> On 10/24/06, SISU! <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > When you reinstall Windows, does it wipe everything out like a reformat,
> > or does it just write over the old copy or what?  Do you just stick the
> > Windows Cd in and install it as it it were not already there?
> >
> > For the past two weeks, I have been having crashes and shutdowns,
> > exception error, fatal exception errors, etc. I can barely get online
> > without Netscape crashing or Windows crashing.  I've run Scandisk again
> > and again, and usually there are no errors, but once it did find errors
> > and it fixed them.  It still did not solve the problem.
> >
> > This whole thing seemed to start when I was negligent about vacuuming
> > behind the computer.  I let a lot of dust build up.  I have since
> > cleaned and blown all that out, but I am now wondering if I might have
> > fried the motherboard or something.  The cooling fans are working
> > properly, everything is clean, the disk is only 20% full, and I haven't
> > installed any new software or loaded any kind of new game.  No viruses
> > found, no spyware or other problems found.  I do regular
> > maintenance-defrag, scandisk, etc. The damn thing just keeps crashing on
> > me.  I've backed everything up, just to be safe, and am now thinking of
> > reinstalling Windows (98SE), but I've never done that before and am
> > worried about creating more problems.
> >
> > Bev, stumbling around in the dark
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> > BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
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> >
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