re: Is there still a (any kind of) driver cleanup utility available for W98?
Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 10:48 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2204 messages posted)
Thanks, I had run across Driver Sweeper, and will try it on an NT-based system next
time I need to do it on one. Regarding "Nasty", whatever the first reference was
I saw for that one, it didn't inspire confidence, and I am already pretty close to
erasing the past couple of months' work and starting from a totally empty drive,
without ANY old fragments of drivers hidden anywhere.
The fact is, I owned a "VIP" branded mainboard with my Pentium 233 MMX machine, that
had a Via "MVP3" chipset back when P-IIs were all still very new (I also had a P2/
400 machine at the same time). That one was trouble- free, while the P2/400 was
problematic the entire time I owned it. For Retro-Gaming use, I recently tried an
Asus P5A (ALI Aladdin5 chipset), and a Soyo with the MVP chipset.
The Asus was about as close to that 440-BX Intel trash as I've seen since those bad
old days. Off and on for a couple of months, maybe longer, I tried different things
just to get basic functionality, and it fought me every step.
.
Kiwi
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On Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 10:39 am, gewg_ wrote:
>Kiwi wrote:
>|[...]the long-favored Driver Cleaner program
>|has gone both to trial versions and to NT-family only OSes
>|(was Driver Cleaner Professional).
>
>A simple 2-Google problem:
>This didn't yield anything useful
>http://www.google.com/search?q="Like.Driver.Cleaner.Professional"+-"I.Like.Driver"
>
>but this brought up 2 candidates.
>http://www.google.com/search?q="Driver.Cleaner.Professional.or"
>
>One of those is (like your old fave) NT-only. 8-(
>cache of http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper
>
>2 sources say the other is OK under any Windoze variant:
>cache
>of http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3233
>
>cache
>of http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/Nasty-File-Remover.shtml
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