You are welcome. Looks like you have backup well under control, & that
is the most important thing. I have seen threads in which poster did a
fresh install and was unable to connect to Windows Update. It may have
involved other issues, though, such as the system date ended up off by
months. Windows Update doesn't like that. However, the address of
Windows Update did change. Therefore, that "Security Update CD" may be a
starting point, if your machine can take it...
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp
Security Update CD. (Also, I read, it requires just two reboots, where
dozens may be done at Windows Update.) Or use the one that they all
redirect to...
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

OK, then.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Walter Dnes (delete the 'z' to get my real address)"
wrote in message
...
| On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:01:16 -0400, PCR, wrote:
| After the fresh install & perhaps prettying up a few settings,
| do a full system backup. This will protect you from most possible
| mishaps, including certain critical updates may not take well in
| your machine.
|
| I used an old copy of Partition Magic to make a hidden copy of the
C:
| partition. If something goes drastically wrong, I'll be able to blow
| away the C:, and replace it with the clean one. Only problem is that
I
| only have room for 2 C: backups on the 98SE machine, and it doesn't
have
| a CD-burner.
|
| Thanks for the backup-solutions in your second post. But once I
get
| back on broadband, I'll download and burn a Knoppix CD. I'll then be
| able to boot the Knoppix-linux CD on the 98SE machine, and copy over
the
| raw partition image to the linux machine as a file. I'll be able to
take
| snapshots of all the partitions and burn them to CD on my linux
machine,
| as long as I keep each one below 700 megs.
|
| When you do connect to the WEB, you will not get a virus from just
| "START button, Windows Update".
|
| In that case, I may as well do the update online once I get
| broadband. The router is set to block anything inbound to ports
| 0..1023, so stuff aimed at ports 135, 137-139, 445, etc will be kept
| out.
|
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| Delete the "z" to get my real address. If that gets blocked, follow
| the instructions at the end of the 550 message.