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What in the blue hell has happened to my PC?

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My brother informs me it's crashed (no surprise, we're still using Win 98 SE after all) and the screen has displayed something about "backing up system files." He didn't catch the rest of what it said but I really wish he had now!

Windows started in Safe mode and wanted to find all our drivers for PCI devices, monitor etc. I did this, rebooted into proper Windows mode and have found that half my programs don't work (Norton needs reinstalling for some reason, MSN is missing files, PSP7 won't load straight off the start bar) and all my preferences are gone - Google toolbar and such. IE homepage was reset to a site we haven't had as a home for two - three years...! File associations have changed as well.

Is there a rational explanation for this, or am I going to have to reinstall practically everything, including Windows, to sort out the mess? :(
 
Man. People who go around telling other people the best thing to do is format really ******** me off. Formatting is a last resort if you just keep formatting every time something goes wrong with your computer you might as well just box it up and put it away.

Back on topic yes unless your can do a system restore (been so long since I used 98 I can't remember if it's in there, I doubt it though) but yeah unless you can do that I'd say reinstall the programs that your having problems with. Good idea would be to google whatever error messages your getting as well, usually helps.
 

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A format is usually the best idea when you are running widers... it doesn't recover too well...
follow the error messages by all means.. not everything can be fixed that easily though remember.
 
The best thing to do with Windows is to make sure that

"Automatically Restart Windows" is NOT clicked on the System Failure option in the Control Panel. I still for the life of me cant understand why that is the system default. If it isnt ticked the blue screen of death just sits there and allows you to write down the error message in full.
 
Basic said:
Man. People who go around telling other people the best thing to do is format really ******** me off. Formatting is a last resort if you just keep formatting every time something goes wrong with your computer you might as well just box it up and put it away.

Back on topic yes unless your can do a system restore (been so long since I used 98 I can't remember if it's in there, I doubt it though) but yeah unless you can do that I'd say reinstall the programs that your having problems with. Good idea would be to google whatever error messages your getting as well, usually helps.
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you should probably do a format every 6 monthes or so though..
 
Richmondfan#1 said:
Can someone tell me what a format is? Cheers.
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A format isn't just wiping your drive like someone mentioned. If you are using windows, you must set your drive to a certain format, either NTFS or FAT32 with windows XP. It just tells windows how to talk to your hard drive, and how to address/find everything.
A format does wipe everything off the drive though.
 
Basic said:
Man. People who go around telling other people the best thing to do is format really ******** me off
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Hey, formatting is one of the funner sides of computing...Particularly when reinstalling and reading about Windows' new innovative stuff. Much fun to be had.:D I format about once a month because I'm obsessed with a clean computer. So yeah, my solution, do a format. :D
 

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