<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sentinel69 @ Feb 8 2007, 04:40 PM) [snapback]278500[/snapback]</div>
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this win95 install is > 6 years old.  [/b]
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Win9X has a very serious issue with system corruption along time. I don't use that machine myself any longer but the only working solution was formatting the hard drive. I actually partiotioned it in two units, so that I only had to format the small one where Win98 is and didn't lose my data. It's not difficult nor time-consuming provided you know what you're doing, definitely less time-consuming that bearing with the system corruption.
But if you don't format you should at least install and run a program like EasyCleaner. In my experience its registry cleaning feature is 100 per cent safe, I've been using it for a long time and never ever got an unpleasant surprise after deleting the bad registry keys it detects, they're referred to files which no longer exist and slow down the system. Plus you can recover afterwards what you delete, even though I've never needed to. An indispensable utility.