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 the registry?

The registry is the main part of the Windows system and contains registry files of all the programs installed in the computer. The working of the Windows 98 gets upset whenever the registry files get corrupt or missing. The windows which were introduced after the Windows 98 are capable of going through this situation by skipping the blue screen. Working on windows 98 is not that much helpful, is it?

Windows Registry Cleaner

There is a simple method to fix the errors in the registry. A windows utility cleaner could be easily downloaded from the net which easily fixes the problems in registry files which prevents the blue screen from appearing on the computer. Many kinds of registry cleaner utility software are available. They are different in their working but most of them work efficiently.

It is possible to manually solve the errors in the registry files. But a very important point that one needs to keep in mind while fixing the errors is that registry is a major windows database and deleting any important file could cause all the data to erase from the computer.

Probably the best solution is to download a registry utilities cleaner. These programs are quite easy to find, you just need to do a quick Google search and you’ll find that lots of options come up.

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

There may be instances when one still gets a blue screen appearing on the computer even after repairing the registry files, which indicates some other problem. To sort out this, you need to think as what caused the blue screen to appear at first place. Installation of new hardware or software may also cause the blue screen to appear. If this is the reason, then that particular device driver must be uninstalled and not used and some other driver may be installed.

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.