re: File erase help
Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 5:41 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1080 messages posted)
Well argon a program that I would recommend for cleaning up your crap is CCleaner.
It has a mild registry cleaner and will also free up a lot of space if you haven't
used it before, and its free.
You haven't actually said how long since you last did a rebuild. Open Windows Explorer
and check the date for the Windows folder, thats the last time it was rebuilt.
If you don't have a Win98SE CD then get one of eBay. If you do and you have the drivers
for all your additional hardware sound card, graphics card, printer, scanner etc
then just format and do a rebuild. That way you know what is on there so the registry
will have a smaller files.
As gewg says you registry is backed up on every new day the computer starts up. By
default it saves 5 backups in Windows\Sysbckup *.cab files. Now you can change the
number of backups to what ever number you want by editing Windows\Scanreg.ini and
in
MaxBackupCopies=5
change the number to as many backups as you want. But I have found that when you
need to do a Scanreg /restore it only list about 7 backups even though I've had 14
in Scanreg.ini, so I generally have 7 now.
- Written in response to:
- File erase help (argon: Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 4:02 pm)
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