just some little help

I'll give you some general answers that you need to be aware of and I don't care about the points!
The best way to run Windows 95/98 is without utilities of any kind. Microsoft designed Windows to stand on its own. Norton Utilities does NOT make Windows more stable. The less that is running when the machine is started, the better. Just do a CTRL-ALT-Delete when in Windows - does the list contain lots of items after Windows is started? It should not. In addition, about the only hardware upgrade (besides replacing the computer) that is worth the cost is more RAM. 64 meg. Ram is about right for most people, more is needed if you run lots of programs at once. A RAM upgrade can make a significant difference if your machine is memory starved.
Lastly, to answer the first question, free probably isn't going to get you any kind of backup that will help you. I recommend that you purchase either a Zip disk or CD/RW drive to backup the parts of your system that are important. If your system is crashing a lot how about providing more information and posting a question? It could be a hardware problem. Some of the symptoms could clue us in! Good Luck

Can't enter Windows is very vague, if you can boot up and use the F8 function key, perhaps you diagnose your problem there.

As for speeding up your internet, answer 1 suggest RAM, perhaps you can drop by www.speedguide.net and explore the possibilities of playing around with your registry. Good Luck

What I think would be good for you is a utility called System Commander 98. It is cheap and easy to use. This utility will allow you to multi boot your system. With this you load win 98 on your system in one partition (P2) as the main version then load SC in to this install. Then use SC to load another copy of Win 98 on your other partition (P1) (for partitions use partition 1 1GB, and partition 2 the rest of the drive). What this will do for you is give you a working install of windows (P2) toalways use and a testing version (P1) to try things out on before you do them to your regular install. If you crash the test install you can still do things on your regular install until you have time to reload or fix the test install.
For RAM I suggest 128MB for windows. In my usage with only a couple of things running system monitor shows 128MB being used very easily. If you multi task or use multimedia apps more will be needed.
Lastly www.speedguide.net is a great resource for tweaking windows net connections.

Get a copy of Drive Image. By booting up on a floppy you can create an image of your hard drives partition to another drive. It will let you resize the partition as you copy it so you can eliminate the free space, thus allowing you to store it on a smaller space.

If you have had a crash from adjusting the system registery you can boot to the command prompt and run
c:\windows\command\scanreg.exe
This will let you restore a backup of the registery and thereby get things going again. Do note that registery things that were changed between the backup and crash will be void. This includes installed software, you will have to reinstall it.

This should get you buy the system tweaks. As far as the internet goes get a cable modem or dsl.

Good Luck Lee

PC crashes can be cuase by many factors - eg. mis-configured bios or windows or insufficient computer resources.

But, I suggest re-installation of windows and apply any patches for the windows version.

If possible, try to install windows 98 SEfor home use - especially to play games. Or, Windows 2000 pro for some SOHO use (remember to apply W2K SP1).

Windows 98 and W2K, both, have a in-built backup program (ie. windows backup). If you don't have it, check you windows installation through Add/Remove program and select the Windows Setup tab. There will be a list of options that you can set. Try to find Windows backup under accessories (if i am not mistaken).

Hope this helps.

Mohd Farid

Get a copy of PowerQuest's Drive Image Pro or Ghost. They both create images of your disk partitions. You can then burn the images to a CD. Both are very good for creating disk images, but Drive Image Pro is the better software

I always use Checkit Ver 5.0
It's magic
It backs up system files, checks Motherboard, Prts, modem, memory, does benchmarks, check for software and hardware changes beteen Checkit executions, EVERYTHING YOU NEED
I got it free a PC MAG
I have checked web and the best Iu came up with is

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description.asp?fid=5045

Select Download. I would send the full product to you but it in excess if 6mg.

Try it is great

Alan

I keep my system spotless.
a) I run scandisk every day.
b) I defrag every week.
c) I use NBGcleanregistry
http://dialupprof.bizland.com
every two days.
d) I use Mcafee online utilities to check
my machine for screwups.(www.mcafee.com)
e) I use DOWNLOAD ACCELERATOR PLUS TO
SPEED up my downloads.(free)www.speedbit.com
f) I use CACHEMAN www.outertech.com (free)
g) I use windows commander www.ghisler.com
to make a copy of my boot drive to
physical drive D:(10 min)Make sure you
dont change your partition assignments.
Hope this helps

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