Got your emails..
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33507 messages posted)
...over the weekend. Sorry, but you need to post your responses directly on the forum,
so the entire discussion is together. I'm not going to start doing private tech support
by email.
Did you ever run spyware/malware scans? It sounds like you need to do a good cleaning.
You say this is a used ThinkPad, so you've taken over someone else's problems, including
extra junk you probably don't need. Do you have a knowledgeable acquaintance, who
would give you a hand cleaning things up? Did you get a Windows CD or restore disks
with the Thinkpad?
You can't run defrag from the command prompt. That's a 'Windows only' utility. As
for IE, it can't be uninstalled without a third party program, as it's part of Windows.
You would probably need a full download for IE6, if you were to install it. You said
IE 4 is installed? That's way too ancient. There may be a full set of zipped/compressed
IE .CAB files on the the CD provided by SBC, so you can install it from there.
What is the name of the folder all those ZIP files are in, and in which directory?
What's the name of some of those files? I can't say whether you should/shouldn't
delete them, when I've no idea what they are. They could be something you'd have
use for. "Bytes" are very small.
As for an unzipping program, here's one free unzipping program: UltimateZip
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An Annoyances.org forum member, Anthony Thannisch, has sent
you the following message, in response to your post:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1141521625
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Hi CarolJ;
Well, I did exactly as you instructed and the results were as you stated and I did
have a "date started" so I chose the earliest one 3/2/2006. It did its thing and
I got back to windows fine.
However, I still cannot open my Incredimail (server is SBC Yahoo). I have gone to
the Incredimail site a few times and tried to download their program and It goes
thru the motions but something is not installing b/c I still cannot open it, either
by clicking on the shortcut icon or clicking on Incredimail.exe>open.
Additionally, I look at the list shown on the install/uninstall window and there
is NO IE4 or IE5 or IE6 shown even though I have reloaded the IE4 cd and tried to
upgrade to IE6 (several times). There isn't an IE anything on the install/uninstall
menu. It is like the things load but not all of the way. Something is not permitting
a full download. However, Incredimail XE is shown on the menu, I simply cannot open
it to use it. Did you look at the Route1 toolbar?
I have no ZIP ! program and undoubtedly it is a zip file and when it did nothing,
then I uninstalled it. Let me ask you another question, if a file is a zip file and
contains a whole lot of stuff, is any of that considered to be running anything (from
its zipped state)? The reason I ask is that my wife's laptop is used and is an IBM
ThinkPad. It is slower than cold molasses and I have did the disk clean up, scanned
in the safe mode (can I also defrag in the safe mode and, if so, what do I type after
C:\),
I have done a whole lot and it is still super slow. I went to start>find>My Computer
and typed in zip. It showed 28 zip files and one of them has 14 million + bytes and
the others are just about as thick. She has no idea what they are or where they came
from but, since the laptop was used when we got it from a local who knew nothing
about computers, I am wondering if the previous owner had them on there and they
were never removed. Can I simply delete them or would it destroy stuff.
I do n!ot want to go thru this with her laptop. That is why I asked. Her laptop is
just slooooow and I was wondering if this could be the reason. And, since her defrag
is not working (it never gets above 0%), I think this is also a real problem.
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Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
- Written in response to:
- kernel32.dll errors (Tony: Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 2:51 pm)
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