re: uninstall and reinstall Windows 98 Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 6:20 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by trey (1964 messages posted) Why not remove the PROBLEM. D/L and run Adaware SE personnal - Free Edition & Spybot S&D - Free Edition from this Trusted LINK, update both before running. Run the scan from the 1st link. On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 5:01 pm, Bev wrote: >I have a Gateway desktop, built in 1998. We now have a trojan virus (Spyware.Smitfraud) >that has infected the internet explorer. I believe it has caused problems in the > operating system because I can't get it to defragment or shut down properly. (And >yes I do have an up to date virus scan on it now.) >Can someone give me exact instructions as to how to uninstall the operating system >and clean the hard drive off and then reinstall Windows 98. I have the Windows 98 >disk, the boot disk and all the disks that came with the computer when we bought >it knew. It doesn't have a lot of space and can't run Windows 2000 or XP. >I am using another computer now but don't want to get rid of the Gateway. >Thanks for your help. Written in response to: uninstall and reinstall Windows 98 (Bev: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 5:01 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] uninstall and reinstall Windows 98 (Bev: Wed, Jul 13, 2005, 5:01 pm) re: uninstall and reinstall Windows 98 (Sgt: Wed, Jul 13, 2005, 5:54 pm) re: uninstall and reinstall Windows 98 (trey: Wed, Jul 13, 2005, 6:20 pm) re: Uninstall and (Clean) Reinstall of Windows 98 (Kiwi: Wed, Jul 13, 2005, 6:30 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum