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'font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Rex Simpleton

At times, a computer user who has installed Windows 98 in his computer may come across the much feared blue screen. The blue screen may have been encountered more than once in the Windows 98. Blue screen or death is a synchronous term with Windows 98 as it was the biggest programming error in Windows 98 system. It shows that there is some problem in the registry files whenever the blue screen of death appears on the computer.

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

There is a simple solution. Now you can download a windows utility cleaner from the internet and fix the registry problem, and no more blue screens turn up. There are many different types of registry cleaner utilities. Some are better than others, but most will get the job done.

You could manually fix the windows registry, but you need to remember that this a very important windows database, and any file that you delete that you shouldn’t, could disable your system, causing you to lose all your data.

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 is very simple to use the windows registry cleaner. Just the program needs to be downloaded and then run. Almost all of the registry cleaners present the number of errors found and an option to solve them. One must always create backup of registry before fixing the errors through the program so that in case some of the registry files go missing, they could be put back in place.

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.

It may be a case of a hardware defect if you have not done anything else on the computer. There may be a chance of low memory space which indicates the addition of more memory space. There are many types of programs available on the internet which helps to determine if the hard drive is low on space.

The appearance of the blue screen is generally caused by corrupt registry files in the Windows 98. But this problem is normally solved after the running of the registry repair cleaner.

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