You may be a windows 98 user and have come across the unwanted blue screen. There are chances that you may have come across the blue screen not one but several times. The term blue screen of death is quite synonymous with Windows 98 as this was considered as the most harmful programming error in the Windows 98. The blue screen of death appearing on the Windows 98 computer indicates that the registry files are erroneous.
What is Registry?
The registry system is one of the major components of the windows. When the files contained in the registry get corrupted or missing, it makes the Windows 98 to hang. The windows introduced after Windows 98 are designed to handle this situation by not going into the blue screen of death. But running windows 98 in the computer is not of that much help, or is it?
Windows registry cleaner
A simple trick could be performed to keep the registry files error free. A registry cleaner could be downloaded from the internet which solves all the problems in the registry files and thus helps in reducing the frequency of appearance of the blue screen. Several types of registry cleaners can be found over the net. Comparison could be done amongst them, but most of them perform their work.
The registry could be repaired manually, but being a major database of settings and instructions, deleting any type of file that should not have been deleted from the registry could affect the computer in a major way causing all the data to be erased from the computer.
The best way of doing this is to get a registry utility cleaner from the internet. These types of programs are very easy to find and download from the internet by searching on the keyword over Google.
How to use a Registry Cleaner in Windows 98?
It does not take much of a time and is very simple to run the registry cleaner program. You just have to download the software normally and then run it. The registry provides the user with the number of errors found and an option to correct them. It is recommended that you take a backup of the registry files in case if some files are deleted by the program so that they can be put back to the registry.
What if You Still Get Blue Screens
One may experience the appearance of blue screen even after fixing the errors through the registry utility cleaner. This means that there may be some other problem apart from the registry. To come up with the problem, you must recollect as what must have caused the clue screen to appear the last time? Sometimes, the installation of a new hardware or software also leads to the blue screen. In such a case, that driver device should be uninstalled and not used while some other driver may be installed and used.
The hardware may be at fault in such a case if you have not done anything else or installed new software. There may be a bad memory case which means that addition of more memory is necessary. The hard disk may be falling in this case. Many types of hard disk scanning programs are on the internet which could be downloaded and they determine if the hard disk is falling.
Generally speaking though most windows 98 and blue screen of death problems occur because of corrupt registry files, so once you have run a registry cleaner, the problem should clear up.
