Windows 98 troubleshooting

Signature Verification Tool: It checks whether a device driver is certified by Microsoft for compatibility. Automatic Skip Driver Agent: It can detect and disable device drivers or operations that fail during startup. Watson: It collects detailed information about the current condition of Windows at the time or slightly before an application fault.

This tool may cause some confusion. When it is loaded, it seems that nothing happens. Actually it monitors software activities in the background. You can access it at the lower right corner of the task bar:. Registry checker: It finds and resolves registry problems, and regularly backs up the registry. It is highly recommended that you export the registry before installing new software. If anything goes wrong, you can import the registry backup to undo any harm.

Scandisk: It scans the integrity of the file and folder structures. If Windows is not shutdown properly, scandisk will run upon startup.

A file system is a way of organizing storage space on a hard drive. The older one is FAT As the name implies, it is a bit file system and less efficient than FAT Without exclusive access, you may save a file while the same file is being scanned at the same time, and data corruption may occur.

If you install Windows 98 the first time, choose FAT32 as yhe file system. However, sometime a conversion may not work. After converting the file system, you have to defrag the hard drive to ensure the data are organized in an efficient manner.

Repair Microsoft programs. In this example, choosing the last option "restore the previous Windows configuration" will be resulted in restoring the previous version of Internet Explorer. The omission of removal is puzzling. Usually a clean installation works better than a repair on top of a corrupt program. Windows 98 Resource Kit Utilities. Backup No maintenance is percent foolproof. Alternatively, if a zip drive or a network drive is available, you can use an old fashion batch script to do the trick: Open Run from Start.

Type sysedit and press Enter. In the file autoexec. How to download and install:. Windows Update downloads and installs Registration Wizard Update, an uninstall is not available for this component.

To disable the Registration Wizard:. If you later need to re-enable the control, use the command regsvr Save the information by making a backup of the registry keys, or by writing down the information so that you can undo your changes in case you encounter any problems.

Once you have disabled the Registration Wizard, you can use this page at Windows Magazine, to test your browser. Did you share something, a printer or a full disk or a directory? You can enable sharing by right-clicking on an object printer, disk or directory in Windows Explorer, and choosing Sharing If you don't have a Sharing Only systems with something to share will show up in the Network Neighborhood.

You can check the bindings from the Bindings tab on the properties sheet for your NIC. Only protocols which are checked are used by the NIC. If you want to connect to other systems than Win9. Do you have the same protocol installed on all systems?