Posts by dina_g

The upgrade/downgrade process might not have gone as flawlessly as it might have appeared. I hate to suggest this, but do you have the option of backing up your data and reinstaling Win 98 from scratch? Considering that none of us can sit down in front of your computer and get a first-hand look at what's going on, that might be the less time-consuming way to go.

This is what I would like to do....I do have all my data on CD and I have reinstalled Windows98 but this made no difference. I want to format my hard drive now so that I can install Windows 98 on freshly........I have tried to do this but it doesn't allow me to do so....could you suggest ways I could format my hard drive?
Thanx! : :)
Dina

To view the run entries in your Registry:

- Start the Registry Editor: In the "Run..." option under you Start menu, type: regedit.

- In the left-hand pane of the Editor, navigate down to H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Software->Microsoft->Windows->CurrentVersion

- Scroll down to the "Run" folder and click on it; the items which are set to run at startup will be displayed in the right-hand pane.

Do not change anything in the Editor; you can severely cripple your system if you do!

I did that and it seemed ok...(i think). I couldn't find anything that said mouse or keyboard though. Any other ideas?

Dina

For anyone else having problems with mouse and keyboard hesitation...my problem turned out to be the Keylogger.trojan virus which was in my windows\system file.
For whatever reason Norton could not clean the virus off the machine until I went to safe mode.
I hope this helps someone else!!!

I have had the same problem for the last month by mouse and keyboard just don't work!!! How did you clear it off? Also where in windows\systems do you locate it?

Thanx
Dina

All kinds of suggestions come to mind:
1) At Windows Startup, try pressing and holding the "Shift" key. On some versions of Windows, it ignores the items in the startup menu.
2) Get in to safe mode, go to Control Panel> System and look for hardware conflicts. Fix those somehow. (I had to remove a sound card, uninstall all the drivers and insert it again to fix my Windows problem tonite.)
3) You may want to look in the registry at the "run" keys and see if there's something starting there that shouldn't be.

Ive tried holding the shift key - doesnt work and i've also gone into safe mode and there doesn't seem to be any hardware conflicts! and I don't know how to go to the registry! So any more suggestions???

Its a PS/2 mouse. Hope that helps

Hi,

I am having problems with my computer i would be really grateful if someone could help!

I had Windows XP on my computer but found that updating my windows did not allow me to use some of my programs that I had when having Windows 98. To solve this problem I uninstalled Windows XP and because the previous version (Windows 98) was there I was able to use the computer as usual as it was back to its previous state. However a day later when I switched on the computer the mouse and keyboard worked fine for the first few seconds after Window 98 had loaded up however after that it had just froze! With the mouse and keyboard not working i'm not sure what to do and now face quite a dilemma. :cry:

I have already tried going into windows through safe mode and there the mouse and keyboard seems to work fine but as I am in safe mode I am unable to access everything I want! Does anyone have any ideas to what might be causing the problem and what I can do??? :rolleyes:
Thanks!