Windows 98 problem

[undyingking]

Anyone out there remember the happy days of Windows 98 SE? T's pc has a problem -- it boots up apparently OK, but freezes within about a minute of finishing populating the desktop. In safe mode, though, it's fine. I've done the obvious things like turning off all the startup gubbins, but no joy. Seen this sort of thing before?

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[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Knoppix also works wonderfully for getting stuff off elderly Windows PCs when the network card drops dead and they don't have (functional) USB so can't use a CD writer. I speak from experience. (Memo to self: you said you were going to sort your dad out with a new computer sometime soon.)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

My instinct there would normally be to whip out the hard drive and shove it into another machine, but Knoppix certainly sounds less drastic!

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

This was actually as part of an OS upgrade, so we wanted to back everything up before doing much else...