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Win98SE BOOTUP stalls at first splash screen

By Pap_Samuels ·
Sometimes it does/does not complete full bootup to Desktop from a COLD start.
We are currently "working around" this by booting up
in safe mode and then restarting to normal mode;
which gives us OUR computer back to use!
We have waited a full five minutes for the stalled
splash screen to change to the desktop.
We have about three gigs of free disk space waiting
for your answers!

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by pierrejamme In reply to Win98SE BOOTUP stalls at ...

Not much to go on, but here are a few suggestions:
1. Boot into Dos and run c:\scanreg/fix
2. Download AdAware 6 and up-date it the scan and remove everything it finds. Get it from: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
3. Download Spybot Search & Destroy,1.3, up-date it and remove everything it finds. Get it from: http://www.safer-networking.org/
4. Re-install Windows 98SE and as a final resort, copy data to another drive (slave) or CDR, format the hard drive and do a clean install of windows. This is best accomplished with a Win98 Boot Disk and boot with CD support so you can access the Windows CDROM setup.exe

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