My PC runs Windows 98 and has worked fine for 3 years. A few days ago it
froze while I was reading the New York Times online. When I restarted,
it's frozen, or opened in safe mode, or opened just fine, then frozen again
in a minute or 2. In safe mode I ran the Scandisk. The first time it
said that the standard scan was fine, but clearly there was trouble with the
Complete scan, although it did not say what was wrong. I took it to a
technician, who said nothing was really WRong, but there were too many
things starting up, and somehow my scanner appears to have been installed 4
times.
I cannot back up all my files on the zip because some are too big, and what
about programs I have downloaded like IE6, which also changed my Outlook
Express to ver 6. If the hard drive has to be reformatted with the disks
from 3years ago, will I lose it all?
Before I take the drastic step of reformatting, are there other things I
might try? I did install Startup Cop, and probably there are files that could be eliminated, but how do I know which?
Many thanks for any help.
froze while I was reading the New York Times online. When I restarted,
it's frozen, or opened in safe mode, or opened just fine, then frozen again
in a minute or 2. In safe mode I ran the Scandisk. The first time it
said that the standard scan was fine, but clearly there was trouble with the
Complete scan, although it did not say what was wrong. I took it to a
technician, who said nothing was really WRong, but there were too many
things starting up, and somehow my scanner appears to have been installed 4
times.
I cannot back up all my files on the zip because some are too big, and what
about programs I have downloaded like IE6, which also changed my Outlook
Express to ver 6. If the hard drive has to be reformatted with the disks
from 3years ago, will I lose it all?
Before I take the drastic step of reformatting, are there other things I
might try? I did install Startup Cop, and probably there are files that could be eliminated, but how do I know which?
Many thanks for any help.