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Thread ID: 29948 2003-02-06 18:53:00 SERIOUS PROBLEM-CONSTANT CRASHING-PLEASE HELP Wilky (776) Press F1
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118870 2003-02-06 18:53:00 Recently, on wednesday, early morning, I finished a site design of mine and went to school. When I came back home the computer was in safe mode. Thinking that the kids had done something, I reverted to 7:54 am, using go-back. Unfourtunately, when I realised my mistake of reverting it to a "system boot" when I don't reboot often, it was too late. I couldn't revert to a time before that. Now my computer system seems to have a corrupted registry and it is constantly crashing in programs (mainly IE 6, but in windows explorer and other programs too) and sometimes giving 1-3 blue screens on boot up. I'm thinking it is a registry problem since norton win-doctor crashed when examining the registry and since IE is obsessed with the registry... although it could be another problem alltogether. NAV crashed when scanning so I have no leads.

I am running Windows 98 on a 3 year old PIII 533 machine with 384 MB of ram.

*PLEASE* HELP!
Wilky (776)
118871 2003-02-06 18:54:00 Oh, and it doesn't seem to crash on games like half life. Wilky (776)
118872 2003-02-06 22:51:00 A constantly crashing IE is often caused by spyware that may have been working ok previously.

Grab a copy of adaware (http://www.lavasoft.de) and see what it picks up. Also disabling 3rd party extensions (under IE Options -> advanced tab) may help.

BTW: Using all capitals is considered shouting and won't get your post answered any faster, in fact it will probably stop a lot of people from even reading it.
bmason (508)
118873 2003-02-06 22:58:00 you could try a reinstall of your graphics drivers that is usually the cause of crashes into safe mode kiwibeat (304)
118874 2003-02-07 00:02:00 What version of windows are you running?

The more details you give the better people can help you.

If you are still having problems juts reinstall windows
stu140103 (137)
118875 2003-02-07 00:40:00 >What version of windows are you running?

>>I am running Windows 98 on a 3 year old PIII 533 machine with 384 MB of ram .

wakey wakey stu ;-)

>If you are still having problems juts reinstall windows

an "over the top" install might be a good idea . however i would check to see whats running at startup and give it a good virus scan first . try a "clean boot" and see if it still crashes . also record what the error meesages are .
tweak'e (174)
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