A Solution To Windows 98 And The Blue Screen Of Death
Sep 7th 2008Rex Simpletonlaptop computer
You may be a windows 98 user and have come across the unwanted blue screen. There are chances that you may have come across the blue screen not one but several times. The term blue screen of death is quite synonymous with Windows 98 as this was considered as the most harmful programming error in the Windows 98. The blue screen of death appearing on the Windows 98 computer indicates that the registry files are erroneous.
What is Registry?
The registry system is one of the major components of the windows. When the files contained in the registry get corrupted or missing, it makes the Windows 98 to hang. The windows introduced after Windows 98 are designed to handle this situation by not going into the blue screen of death. But running windows 98 in the computer is not of that much help, or is it?
Windows Registry Cleaner
A simple trick could be performed to keep the registry files error free. A registry cleaner could be downloaded from the internet which solves all the problems in the registry files and thus helps in reducing the frequency of appearance of the blue screen. Several types of registry cleaners can be found over the net. Comparison could be done amongst them, but most of them perform their work.
The registry could be repaired manually, but being a major database of settings and instructions, deleting any type of file that should not have been deleted from the registry could affect the computer in a major way causing all the data to be erased from the computer.
Probably the best solution is to download a registry utilities cleaner. These programs are quite easy to find, you just need to do a quick Google search and you'll find that lots of options come up.
How to use a registry cleaner in Windows 98?
It is very simple to use the windows registry cleaner. Just the program needs to be downloaded and then run. Almost all of the registry cleaners present the number of errors found and an option to solve them. One must always create backup of registry before fixing the errors through the program so that in case some of the registry files go missing, they could be put back in place.
What if You Still Get Blue Screens
There may be instances when one still gets a blue screen appearing on the computer even after repairing the registry files, which indicates some other problem. To sort out this, you need to think as what caused the blue screen to appear at first place. Installation of new hardware or software may also cause the blue screen to appear. If this is the reason, then that particular device driver must be uninstalled and not used and some other driver may be installed.
If you haven't done anything different then you probably have a hardware problem. Your memory could either be bad, or you may need to add memory. Your hard drive may be failing. There are several hard drive scanning programs you can find on the internet that can help you determine, if its your hard drive that is failing.
The appearance of the blue screen is generally caused by corrupt registry files in the Windows 98. But this problem is normally solved after the running of the registry repair cleaner.
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