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Lanny Bender
I know this is not the forum for this question, but I couldn't find anywhere
else to ask this.
I recently helped my newbie friend to rid her Win98 PC of some nasty
spyware. I told her to access Safe Mode and perform some operations. Now
she's asking me this question:
"I have to ask this - if it's stupid, I'm really sorry - and I'm sure it
must be stupid or somebody would have mentioned this before. Is there some
reason why I shouldn't run scandisk and defrag in Safe Mode? I fell in love
with safe mode last week when that was the only time my kids' computer
wasn't getting pop ups. AdAware and SpyBot worked so much better, too.
I've always hated scandisk because I can never seem to get enough stuff
turned off on that computer to have it run successfully. After I turn off
the virus-checker and screen saver, I try getting rid of stuff in my
alt-cntl-del list one by one. After each thing I get rid of, I try to run
scandisk again. Usually what happens is that killing one of them makes the
computer crash and then I have to start all over again.
So yesterday, it dawned on me that I would have access to my C and D
drives in safe mode, so why not try running scandisk that way? The computer
worked great for about 3 hours, but then Dave said it would freeze every few
minutes again, which makes me wonder if there was a part of my hard drive
that would have missed getting scanned if I were in Safe Mode. I seriously
doubt that the 227.2 meg of garbage Cleanup deleted was enough to
necessitate another defrag."
She's using Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222), on a 700 MHz Pentium 3 Compaq
PC. She's got Symantec Anti-virus installed, because her husband's company
says so. Don't ask me why; it's too long a story to go into.
Thanks for what ever help you can give,
Lanny
else to ask this.
I recently helped my newbie friend to rid her Win98 PC of some nasty
spyware. I told her to access Safe Mode and perform some operations. Now
she's asking me this question:
"I have to ask this - if it's stupid, I'm really sorry - and I'm sure it
must be stupid or somebody would have mentioned this before. Is there some
reason why I shouldn't run scandisk and defrag in Safe Mode? I fell in love
with safe mode last week when that was the only time my kids' computer
wasn't getting pop ups. AdAware and SpyBot worked so much better, too.
I've always hated scandisk because I can never seem to get enough stuff
turned off on that computer to have it run successfully. After I turn off
the virus-checker and screen saver, I try getting rid of stuff in my
alt-cntl-del list one by one. After each thing I get rid of, I try to run
scandisk again. Usually what happens is that killing one of them makes the
computer crash and then I have to start all over again.
So yesterday, it dawned on me that I would have access to my C and D
drives in safe mode, so why not try running scandisk that way? The computer
worked great for about 3 hours, but then Dave said it would freeze every few
minutes again, which makes me wonder if there was a part of my hard drive
that would have missed getting scanned if I were in Safe Mode. I seriously
doubt that the 227.2 meg of garbage Cleanup deleted was enough to
necessitate another defrag."
She's using Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222), on a 700 MHz Pentium 3 Compaq
PC. She's got Symantec Anti-virus installed, because her husband's company
says so. Don't ask me why; it's too long a story to go into.
Thanks for what ever help you can give,
Lanny