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How do i boot up win98 in ms-dos mode?
LockedI am attempting to fix/recover my HP from a virus hit which hurt my OS and IE. As you can see from this, i am able to get thru and on IE once in a while. When i try to fix from reg boot, i get too many flags keeping me from doing any damage control, and the comp tells me to boot from DOS to work from. I am not a comp tech, still learning, dont know what to type at the C or A prompt to boot comp up? Can someone please give me step by step instr on how to do this, I would really appreciate it?!!
Also, I am able to do a quick disc scan, but,when i attempt a thorough disc scan, it tells me it cant complete due to programs still running/writing to hard drive, but i dont have any open, which tells me i have something running in the background i dont know about. Thanks to TechRep i have learned about turning off my desktop picture and my task mngr and other programs in the task bar next to the clock which has helped me to a point, but evidently there is another/one or more other programs running that i dont see! It has told me that a program my daughter downloaded a while ago “Rugrats gone wild” is still running? I have gone into the ‘program delete’ box to delete this program, but comp says cant find file to delete it.
Does anyone know how i can get rid of this and other programs i cant get rid of? Again, would appreciate any advice/help anyone is willing to share with me! Thankyou!