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"Whitedog" <email@email.com> wrote in message
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> "~misfit~" <misfit61nz@yahoot.co.nz> wrote in message
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> > Whitedog wrote:
> > > An odd thing keeps happening to me. About every half hour or so my
> > > computer comes to a screeching halt and works like its breaking down
> > > the human genome or something. Can't figure out what it is, no new
> > > or unusual progams appear when I hit ctrl+alt+del. I've run numerous
> > > virus scans and came up with nothing, checked for spyware, more
> > > nothing, can't figure it out. This has killed my poor sorc more
> > > times than I can count.
> > >
> > > I'm running Win98 SE, any thoughts?
> >
> > Details old son, details......
> >
> > Is it exactly the same time period between freezes? Are you running a
good
> > firewall? Do you have anything that auto-updates? (I set my AV to update
> on
> > re-boot). What are the specs of the machine? CPU? RAM? HDD space?
>
> Its an old computer, P3 550, 128mb RAM. I have to harddrives, 17 and 30
> gigs each. They have 15 and 24 free. I have things that auto-update, but
> they're all turned off. I run ZoneAlarm and then theres the hardware
> firewall in my router/modem.
>
> > Have you recently installed new software or hardware? Updated drivers? I
> > have a wee proggy called Process Explorer (Sysinternals) for windows 98
> that
> > is only about 245kb zipped that is really good for seeing what is going
on
> I
> > can email to you.
>
> I recently installed all kind of stuff as I cleaned house and reinstalled
my
> OS a few weeks ago. This problem didn't start right away, and I can't
> pinpoint when it did start. I'll try that progam, please email it to
> jroyer2@removethis.verizon.net
Process Explorer can be downloaded for free at:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
(No need for an email)
Its a well-used and trusted application, free from all adware, etc.
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