Win 98se

[smiles4me]

ok, I have done something....really screwed things up.....

when i am on yahoo messenger....and someone sends me IM, i get a box...and shows them typing....but nothing ever shows in the box.....even when i type in something.....

also, when i click on a link, new IE window opens, says 'done' and bottom but blank screen.....

anybody know how i can fix this?

[smiles4me]

Please?????


I am desperate here

[{I}{K}{E}]

- Try to reinstall yahoo messenger

- Update your explorer -> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

[smiles4me]

did hte reinstall on yahoo messenger...nothing....did a re-install of IE 6 still nothing....i am really dreading if I have to do a format.....have done it before but hate to lose everything again

[monkeyhead]

wat is the spec of ur pc?

[smiles4me]

p2, 400, running wi 98se, 192 RAM

[smiles4me]

sorry, 10 GB hard drive

[monkeyhead]

do u check from spyware?

[smiles4me]

running adaware 6 now...already finding some

[monkeyhead]

get Spy Sweeper and spybot srch and destroy then run them
pm me if this works!!!

[echidna]

Originally posted by smiles4me@8 May 2003 - 01:32
did hte reinstall on yahoo messenger...nothing....did a re-install of IE 6 still nothing....i am really dreading if I have to do a format.....have done it before but hate to lose everything again
oh buddy :blink: i don't know the answer but here are some hard won tips on reinstalling win98 after formating


next time you clean install partition your HDD into at least 2 volumes so that you can keep you data on a non system HDD better still get a second physical drive
you can usr fdisk or partition magic to partition a drive
when reinstalling i usually disconect the data drive while installing windows [just in case]
when you're ready plug it in and your in business again
it just makes the starting again from the format situation alot easier the deal with ;)

[one note :: once i had a data HDD formated as FAT32 by win2k when i went back to a 98se installation and used it to access the disk it said it found errors and would run scan disk - to cut a long story short 98 doesn't like 2k formatted FAT32 drives (it reads them but says that they have errors) - i stupidly let scan disk automatically fix errors and it rewrote the boot sector so that the drive was inaccessable :( , i had to buy 'getdataback' to retreive my data - so don't try this at home OK]

good luck

PS do you have a network adapter? if so beg borrow or steal a friends computer and a cross-over cable so you can move important files onto another box while you reinstall
it's much easier than backing up to external media like CDs :)