win 98 crash

[alondra]

Every now and then win 98 seems to crash, either the blue line stops moving and I have to reboot or I get a page of little letter c with a tail on them. and have to reboot. Can I just reinstall win 98 and if so will I loose all my settings, shortcuts, email letters etc. I have the CD full version.

[Nemo]

All you need to do is use your win98 boot disk and start the computer with CD-ROM support, then get to the win98 directory on the win98 CD-ROM and run the setup file, this will reinstall windows and fill in any missing files, you will not lose anything.

[alondra]

NEMO
thank you for advise, will try it.
Al.

[Glytzhkof]

In my experience any "chrash problems" with Win98 are best solved by doing a search for the specific error code with Microsoft's Advanced Support Search: http://support.microsoft.com/support/search/c.asp .

Often the causes of crashes are very suprising such as Norton Antivirus causing problems when running 16 bit applications because it is using an old VxD. Without the support search I would never have figured that out.

[mykel]

there's a conflict on your drivers... best solution is, what is the last thing you did on your comp? secondly if you can't remember, follow what nemo said, re-install windows...

[Eli]

On the occasion I have to reinistall W98 over itself with the full install version, I have to rename or delete the win.com file first. Otherwise, the setup detects it and tells you that it's only for clean installations. Good luck...