Hi all, I have an older Gateway running windows 98. I don't really know much about computers, figured I should let you know, the thing is it seems to be a bit sluggisn when opening new pages and just slow overall performance. I really only use it for e-bay and some music and movie downloads. When I first start it the performance rating is about 86% after being on for a while it drops to 77% according to the performance tab in My Computer. I run the defragmenter daily and spybot daily. Is there something I can do that will get me running at it's best speed, something I need to get rid of or look into ? Any help would be great just keep in mind that I am not too computer savy

Hi Hengis, I have only 128 ram and I run defrag every day. The only things running are my norton anti virus and msn messenger besides what I am looking at. Is it just time to upgrade to a new tower like the Vostro ?

its always good to upgrade if you have the $$$$.


try to scan your registry, and see if your PC contains any errors.

You can scan your registry for free from HERE

you will need to download the installer and run it.

let us know of the progress

Just remember to backup your registry first (the program should contain such feature).

Did it and it helped a little, asked me register with a purchase which I am not to keen on, then it would be able to straighten things out completely. Thanx

Still cant get Drive C to run in regular mode just MS-DOS compatibility mode file system, there doesn't appear to be a driver upgrade. Guess it's time to buy a newer computer

Well faraz this completely screwed up my computer, now when I start it up it goes to Microsoft Registry Checker. After 20 minutes of running it's check I get an error message which says the following;
"Registry Repair Results"
Windows found an error in your system files and was unable to fix it. Try deleting some files to free up disk space on your windows drive. If that doesn't work you need to install Windows to a new directory.
This has me completely lost

this is not supposed to happen.

how much free space do you have in your windows partition?

also did you create a restore point as cowburn suggested befor running the scan??

As my original question stated I know very little about computers so I have no idea what a windows partition is or how to check for free space and no I didn't create a restore point because I had allready done what you had told me to do with running a scan

ok to check for free space right click on your partition in which your windows is installed.

this is usually the drice C:\ in My computer.

right click on it and then click properties, it will tell you of the free space and total space.

if it is very low on free space try deleting files you dont need or try un installing applications that you no longer use.


let me know of your free space. i'll be waiting

used 9.98 Gb free 2.72 Gb

Should I run ScanDisc and defragmenter

hmmmm thats more than enough space for all processes.

try sfc

click on start>>click on run>> type in "sfc" without the quotes and press enter.

this will try to repair all your damaged files.

start the scan and if it finds a faulty file, it will ask for the original one.

insert your windows 98 cd and or direct it to your win98 folder. and finish the scan.

restart and see if this problem happens again.

k im going for dinner, i'll be back later.