Are you getting the infamous, dreaded, Blue Screen of Death on your Windows 98 machine? This usually means that your registry is corrupted, and luckily for you, that can be fixed rather easily.

The registry is a vital part of a Windows machine, it is where hardware settings, software settings, user preferences and more are all stored. The Windows registry is far from perfect, however, and has some serious problems. Programs not installing or uninstalling correctly, messy programs, spyware and more all take its toll on the registry, and it becomes a mess, and so does your entire system.

Fortunately, there are programs out there that can scan the registry for errors, and then fix them. Personally, I use and recommend RegCure PC Optimizer. They offer a free trial that will scan your registry for errors, and then if you buy the $30 program, it will fix all of the errors, which could cure lots of the infamous Blue Screen of Deaths. I think its very affordable, and a great investment in your PC. It fixes problems, and running it on a continual basis should prevent lots of problems from ever happening in the first place. Give the free trial a shot, and find out what's wrong with your system. I noticed a big improvement after I did.

I hope that this article helped you. If you have any questions about PC problems, feel free to send an email to me at asummits@gmail.com, and I will try to help you out.

It sounds interesting, almost had a blue screen of death of my own, was able to not lose everything which was a god send right, or I be up for like day's reinstalling everything. I do have Advance system Optimizer that has a reg cleaner as well. Do it ever few weeks just to make sure nothing is wrong though.

My Dad's old Windows 98 system was having issues to where it wouldn't even shut down without turning off the power strip. My answer was to buy him an iMac, but he is keeping his old system up and running until he's sure he doesn't need any more files.

I agree that in the older versions of windows the main cause of the blue screen of death is problems in the registry, maybe because it doesn't delete the keys when programs are uninstalled and things like that (then again windows xp is the same, it won't automatically delete the keys if the uninstaller didn't remove them).
The other problems that can cause blue screens of death is drivers. They could cause conflicts or try to do something that is impossible.
There are also irq conflicts with devices, they could cause either device not to work or cause a blue screen of death.

-HellFire

Man you should just burn your dad a copy of Knoppix Linux - it will easily recognise the FAT32 filesystem and it will boot off a CD... Plus your settings won't get corrupted because it drops a read-only image to your RAM...

Heck, even if he had NTFS on a win2k or xp, you can still mount it as read-only... plus - it comes with cd burning software, and/or very nice networking capabilities... (And I would guess a computer running windows 98 would still have one of those slit things... oh yeah.. a floppy drive...)

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix


this is the edit: you can change settings while it's in RAM, but they won't save anywhere.... it should very nicely autodetect almost all of your hardware... including any ancient video cards that might be in there....

This post has been edited by polarysekt: Jan 11 2007, 08:18 PM