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 is a main component of the windows system. When files get corrupted within it, it causes windows 98 to go a little crazy. The newer Windows compensates for this and doesn’t go into blue screens as much. Of course, if you’re running windows 98 that doesn’t help you much does 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.
It is possible to manually solve the errors in the registry files. But a very important point that one needs to keep in mind while fixing the errors is that registry is a major windows database and deleting any important file could cause all the data to erase from the computer.
The best way of doing this is to get a registry utility cleaner from the internet. These types of programs are very easy to find and download from the internet by searching on the keyword over Google.
How to use a Registry Cleaner in Windows 98?
Using a windows registry cleaner is quite easy. You only need to download the program and then run it. Most registry cleaners will give you the number of errors it finds and an option to fix them. Before clicking on fix registry errors, you should click on create backup of registry, so that in case something goes wrong, your registry can be put back the way it was.
What if You Still Get Blue Screens
If you are still getting blue screens after cleaning the registry, then you probably have some other kind of problem. You need to think back to what happened to cause the blue screen in the first place. Did you install some piece of hardware or software that made the blue screen come up? If this is the case, then you need to uninstall those device drivers and install a new driver, or avoid using that piece of hardware or software.
It may be a case of a hardware defect if you have not done anything else on the computer. There may be a chance of low memory space which indicates the addition of more memory space. There are many types of programs available on the internet which helps to determine if the hard drive is low on space.
Generally speaking though most windows 98 and blue screen of death problems occur because of corrupt registry files, so once you have run a registry cleaner, the problem should clear up.
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