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| IMPROVING PERFORMANCE Of shadows and ghosts. |
| (Review by MS) |
That almost every system running Windows98 has shadows or ghosts of components that are not present, slowing down system performance? You can check for shadows by booting into "safe mode" holding down the F8 key.
Click on the "Start" button and then on "Settings".
Go to the "Control Panel" and select "System".
In the "Device Manager" check those icons that have a "+" sign next to them.
Select the devices that you know are not present in your system and delete them by clicking the remove button. If in doubt, remove all devices within this category.
Close the "Device Manager" and reset the computer.
On the next boot, Windows will automatically reinstall all correct components but not the shadows and your system will run more stable and cleaner.
The only way to successfully uninstall these shadows is to boot into safe mode by holding down the F8 key while the system is booting and then selecting option #3: Safe Mode. Within the "Control Panel" click on "System" and go into the "Device Manager". A "+" sign next to the icon of any device will indicate that there is more than one device present. In some cases, e.g. when multiple hard disk drives are present in the system, this is normal, however, if there are e.g. two monitors and two floppy drives, this means that there are system resources wasted which can potentially crash the computer. The only way to restore optimal functionality is to delete all devices that are not physically present in the computer by high-lighting them and clicking the "Remove" button. When in doubt, remove all system devices that have shadows since the correct device will be automatically reinstalled upon resetting the computer.
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