Win98se problems after installing NOD32

Hi Mike,
Your post with the DOS instructions seems to have disappeard, I cannot find it on either board.
Mark's is still there though. I was going to print it out, so I could refer to it while carrying out your DOS instructions.
Yours, had some more DOS commands added to what Mark had listed.
I had to log in using the Motzilla Firefox browser as my win explorer 6 kept dropping out and I got sick of repeattedly logging in all the time.
Do you know what would cause this?.
Yours, I saw earlier today Friday Australian time about 8am, we are 16 hours ahead of the US eastern standard time.
Can I delete all the temporary files and the windows files from D drive using the same format of commands in DOS that both you and Mark have listed?
Can I use the Hijack this log on my D drive, or is this unnessary as the D drive is the slave?.
Regards, Robert

 

Hi Mike,
just found your post I was after to print out.
No need to re-send it, it is #18 on this thread.
Regards, Robert

 

Hi Markp62,
In your list of DOS commands, the first line reads " smartdrv ".
Does this mean that I have to go into the C:\windows\smartdrv directory, before typing the rest of the delete commands on your command list?.

Remember I am a computer dummy especially with DOS, so I need step by step instructions please.
This way I should not muck things up.
Regards, Robert

 

Hi Robert

Sorry to drop out on you but my aunt was in hospital (Emergency) she is OK now. Been away since yesterday morning.

smartrv should be in the path just execute it as Mark directed.

If you get an error then type:

c:\windows\command\smartdrv.exe

If that don't work then get back to us.

You can use these same commands to clean your other drive if you specify a drive letter as example

deltree /y d:\windows\temp\*.*

Just don't get crossed up on which drive you are cleaning and do something to you c: drive.

I would recomend you use My Computer browse to D: and use it to delete and clean up.

I don't know speciffically why IE6 was dropping out. Do all the winupdates availabe to Win98 and get back to us.

Mike

 

Hi Mike,
Thanks for your last reply.
IE6 is o.k. today, maybe something to do with your cleanout instructions.
The PC seems to be quicker more responsive and not freezing up like it was.
I did a defrag which took about 2 to 3 hours to complete.

Obviosly I did not muck anything up as my PC seems much better now.
When I booted in to the DOS the prompt, it went into was the windows directory prompt not the normal C prompt, anyway everything seemed to go smoothly.

When I fiest typed smartdrv, it just went back to windows directory prompt again.

When I typed it again, it printed a lot of stuff about smartdrv.

So I now realize that I should have just typed what Mark had typed in bold, then it would have been alright.

Also prodably why NOD32 would not allow my win98se to bootup completly was that I did not uninstall both McAfee virus scan and the McAfee personal firewall as they both would be trying to check security on booting up, and there could be some kind of conflict?.

It is much quicker to delete the temporary internet files while in the DOS mode, but the defrag will take an awful long time on my D drive, as there is more to delete?.

Regards, Robert

 

Delete the stuff on D: either way.

Just leave defrag going when you go to bed!

Mike

 

Hi Mike,

I cannot believe how much quicker deleting these files in DOS really is.

The temporary files took about only 4 minutes, while all the other directories were instant.

I was going to do that anyway Mike, leaving the defrag going overnight.

How do people with winXP get on without DOS?.

Now that my system is cleaned up, I can now purchase and install the upgrade from 98 to XP?.

My OS rebooting by itself, do you think this was caused by viruses or was caused by my system which was cluttered up with unnessary files?.

Regards, Robert

 

Both and the conflict between Mcafee and NOD!

As for upgrading to XP.

There is compatability and requirements on the Microsoft website.

In general in my opinion you need:

Min processor speed of 1.5 G

RAM absolute min 256, but more if you are on the low 1.5 G processor side, would be better. More Ram can make up some for a lower processor speed.

A good fast HD. And I would say at least 10g free space with win 98 and what you already have now.

There is controversy about upgrading. But if done correctly it works OK.

If you decide to do it you should cleanup with the same procedures you used here with the exception that I would do multiple deep registry cleans with a at least 3 different Registry cleaners.

These should be done immediatly before the upgrade.

And after install there are registry entries from 98 that XP needed for the install process. But afer XP is up and running then reclean the XP registry to finish removing most of the traces of win98 that XP no longer needs.

A clean install is best.

But the upgrade costs less and I know you dread reinstalling all you apps tweaks and setting as you have win98 like you want it. Not to mention the time it takes.

Basicilly what I am saying is an upgrade done right is OK!

Just consider it.

Night,
Mike