don't ask Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 It is a ye-olde-worlde P2-450 running Win98 first edition.It has been misbehaving for a while - hubby cleaned it out and got rid of a couple of viruses yesterday, as well as clearing out his startup stuff and managed to get the printer running again. All was sweetness and light.Today son phoned :most of the systray icons hubby unticked in msconfig have reloaded themselves back into the systraywhen he launches MS Word, the screen just judders and jerks to the right continuouslyprinter won't spool properly and often does not finish the print job (it is only 2 weeks old)there are other glitches that I can't recall at the momentIt is driving us all crazy.He has AVG7 - Adaware - Zone Alarm.Any clues please? (I am hoping not to have to do the dreaded reformat because son doesn't know where the CD is with his modem drivers and on-board sound drivers or where the graphics card software CD is - and I can't afford to buy him a new PC until I win the Lotto :blink: :blush: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Can he post a HJT log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don't ask Posted January 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 When I'm next up there I will install the software for it on his machine :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt James T. Kirk Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 if he has the os disk it might be better to reformat and reinstall os.sometimes its needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don't ask Posted January 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Yes - I know - but the os disk is the only one he has - he has tidied away the other ones :wallbash: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt James T. Kirk Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 you say other ones , you mean stuff like driver disks and the like? does he not still have them then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 before a reformat I would try scan disk, defrag and system file checker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 CCleaner as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt James T. Kirk Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 be careful with crap cleaner as you might delete something you need by accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Is there any way you can get the Model #'s of the devices, and burn the drivers to a CD for him?You can download them from DriverGuide, and username/password is UN: driver2PW: all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heradite Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 Best way is to get a new computer. :mellow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 Best way is to get a new computer. :mellow:WHAT?!Tell me you aren't serious!Most people don't jsut have the ~$1000 it is for a new computer hanging out of their bums. Aside from that, we're trying to avoid a reformat, let alone a replacement. I sincerely hope you were joking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 If you need to format and new install eventually, then I'd suggest to Install Windows 2000; it automatically recognizes most hardware, and installs the appropriate drivers.If you have the Win98 CD-ROM, then you'll only need the upgrade version of Win2K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 You can use this freeware utility to back up the drivers!http://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.ph...9853&hl=drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don't ask Posted January 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 Oooh - thanks Nel - much appreciated - have downloaded it. I am so sure that will be extremely useful - thanks again. We have decided to loan him a PC until we sort his one - we'll take his one home as it will be easier to see exactly what it is doing. (We have an elderly P2-400 we will resurrect for him meantime - it has an external power supply because the replacement one we bought would not fit in the case :bangin: )Thanks Scuzzman - I would have said it if you hadn't :rolleyes: Thanks for the moral support and suggestions folks - there is no question of even £5 being available for spending on its repair :blush: Will let you know how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don't ask Posted January 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 I was all prepared to work hard on his PC and had all I needed to hand, including bringing his PC home ............. it turned out that it was simply the case that his mouse was knacked :lol: :lol: :wallbash: His description of the problem was rather lurid, to say the least. When we started playing with his machine we recognised what it was doing (had happened to us many many times in the past!).Glad to say the PC is happy again (until the next time!)Thanks to all for advice and comments :flowers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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