Window 98 question?

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Hi, I am sorry to intrude on this group with an old operating system
question. But I couldn't find any more posting for window 98 newsgroup, nor
the 2000 one...Boy do I need to upgrade. But due to budget constriants I
was wondering if any one can remember how to solve such a problem.
We just bought an HP printer for my wife Dell lap top P3 running Window 98,
unfortunately her lap top didn't have enough memory space on it, so she
deleted a whole bunch of programs that she doesn't use. We discovered after
we rebooted the laptop the bottom Start Bar stays active with the clock
spinning forever, couldn't accesss the Start button or any of the short cuts
on the bottom bar. We tried reinstalling Window 98 thinking we might have
deleted some shared files by accident. Unfortunately it didn't allow us to
even reinstall window 98, it hangs dead forever. So I tried my old trick I
use to know in rebooting in safe mood (F8) /option 5 /scanregistry and
fixing it. Unfortunately it passed the 4 days limit, it only goes back to
2/20/04. and my wife did the cleanup on 2/16.
Any idea how can I get back this lap top to work again.

Thanks for your help
Jeremy
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jeremy said:
Hi, I am sorry to intrude on this group with an old operating system
question. But I couldn't find any more posting for window 98 newsgroup,
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Well my news server has all these for Windows 98
and there are just as many for Windows 2000

alt.win98, fj.os.ms-windows.win98,
microsoft.public.de.german.win98.allgemein,
microsoft.public.il.hebrew.win98, microsoft.public.it.win98,
microsoft.public.jp.win98, microsoft.public.win98.apps,
microsoft.public.win98.comm.dun, microsoft.public.win98.comm.modem

microsoft.public.win98.disks.general,
microsoft.public.win98.display.general,
microsoft.public.win98.display.multi_monitor, microsoft.public.win98.fat32,
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, microsoft.public.win98.internet,
microsoft.public.win98.internet.active_desktop,
microsoft.public.win98.internet.browser,
microsoft.public.win98.internet.netmeeting

microsoft.public.win98.internet.outlookexpress,
microsoft.public.win98.internet.windows_update,
microsoft.public.win98.msinfo32, microsoft.public.win98.multimedia,
microsoft.public.win98.multimedia.directx5,
microsoft.public.win98.networking, microsoft.public.win98.performance,
microsoft.public.win98.pnp, microsoft.public.win98.power_mgmt,
microsoft.public.win98.pptp, microsoft.public.win98.printing,
microsoft.public.win98.pws_4, microsoft.public.win98.scanreg,
microsoft.public.win98.setup, microsoft.public.win98.setup.win31,
microsoft.public.win98.shell, microsoft.public.win98.sys_file_check,
microsoft.public.win98.taskscheduler, microsoft.public.win98.webtv,
mindspring.users.win98, novell.netwareclient.win95win98
 
Thank you for responding Rifleman,
However I just doubled check on my news server all I have is:
microsoft.public.win98gen_discussion (301) No postings since Dec 2002
and microsoft .public.win2000.general (915) No postings since Dec 2002
I reset my list and synchronized it under news.fhcrc.org
I am accessing this from my work.

Again sorry for intruding
Thanks
Jeremy
 
I got these also-and more. Doesn't one of the search engines access NG's ?
Which one if so ?

Malv
 
HI Malvern,
Do you meen like search under Google, I can access these news group on the
internet?

I'll try it Thanks

Jeremy.
 
jeremy said:
Thank you for responding Rifleman,
However I just doubled check on my news server all I have is:
microsoft.public.win98gen_discussion (301) No postings since Dec 2002
and microsoft .public.win2000.general (915) No postings since Dec 2002
I reset my list and synchronized it under news.fhcrc.org
I am accessing this from my work.

Again sorry for intruding
Thanks
Jeremy
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Set up a new news server using msnews.microsoft.com and you will get every
MS news group in existence!
 
We're always glad to help. In my case, I knew this route was possible but I
didn't want to send you on a wild chase with erroneous information. I knew
Ken or any one of the MVP's would post the correct answer.

Malv
 
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