I have a 5 year old HP Pavillion desktop PC with windows 98 that I’ve been spending quite some time on. I got it from my brother as a ‘hand me down’; truth to be told, I took it as a project to work on so my 7 year old daughter could practice on it. Basically, I am looking to pretty much restore it to its original state (as in new). For the most part, my daughter would be using it to surf the net to look up her Cartoon idols and use Microsoft Word to write notes but that’s pretty much it. I think I’ve done a heck of a job cleaning up the PC by deleting unnecessary programs thus creating space, eleminating obsolete programs, ridding it of spyware/adware/malware, and fixing the registry keys. I did this using various techniques and various programs such as Spyware Doctor, Adware by lavasoft, Registry Mechanic, CCleaner and system tools such as deframenter and scandisk. While it helped a lot, the PC is still fairly slow. Often than not, a blue screen pops up saying we have to restart the computer because an error had occured (stating “A fatal error has occurred”). Or sometimes the PC would just freeze, or certain programs won’t open up. Any ideas on what else I can do? I appreciate it everyone, I apologize it’s long but I’m a detailed kind of guy and looking for the same in return so I could fix the problems 🙂