Windows 98 se freezes momentarily and periodically

Windows 98 freezes periodically and looses time. When it freezes
it does not alow mouse movement. it doesn't remember what you
typed should it freeze in the middle of typing. Usually if the system becomes busy it will fill in what you typed afterwards but, not now. I can't think of an easier way of describing it. It took me 10 minutes to write this problem.
Plus is there any good free ware or shareware for cleaning up dead links in the system reg?

• 384m ram
• 633 celeron
• 88% free system resource
• windows se fully updated

 

didn't work

Petec,
Unfortuneatley I did try your suggestion but, to no avail.
I did how ever find that if I bypass my start-up programs
the problem seems to stop. But, in there is someone with
email in their address book who is constantly infected & sending
me the viruses. So, I would rather not run my computer
with out my Anti-virus running. I thought I read somewhere
about anti-virus software causing a similar problem. Do
you think that this could be causing my problem? If so
what could a person do to remedy this? Also, Petec,
It seems to also effect my browser funtionality. When
clicking on a link the borwser will sit there for up to 30
seconds at times.

Thanks for all you help

Bill Conkel

 

What Anti-Virus software are you running ?

Do not chance that idea.

E-mail.

I would suggest getting MailWasher which is capable of checking e-mail right on the server and also may suggest it is Virus infected.

Then if you are continue to get E-mail from the one place just set it to delete and blacklist it.

I do not suggest bouncing it as it MAY NOT be actually returned to the same address it came from and some other machine can be infected of not properly protected.

This will not STOP the spread but can help to slow it down.

BillyBob

 

PeteC. It is good to be back and putting my foot down without a pain going halfway up a leg.

As far as repeats go that is something that I do realize happens and have come to except it.

I also agree with Startup Control Panel. I still use Startup Cop but it is basicly the same.

BillyBob

 

I am using Norton System Works with Norton Anti-virus software

 

I'll give it a try and let you know kind folks.

Thanks a lot for your help gentlemen

 

Massive system slowdowns such as you have described, particularly when trying to fill in a form online such as posting to this forum, can be caused by the presence of CoolWebSearch. It's particularly nasty because neither Spybot nor AdAware can get rid of it.

You can get the removal tool, CWShredder and run it (link to the download is near the bottom of the page), which will remove CoolWebSearch.

If that turned out to be the problem, be sure to go over to the Windows update site and download all the critical updates. One of those patches the vulnerabilty CoolWebSearch exploits to get into your computer.

I also recommend you download, install, immediately update and then run Spybot and/or AdAware (you can use them both.) Let either (or both) clean up any spyware found.

 

Miz,
tryed the shredder. fortuneatley or unfortuneatley it came up
with nothing. PetC and Billybob - tried start up control panel
and I really don't have much running:

HKLM/Run
LoadPowerProfile
NAV DefAlert
Norton Auto-Protect
Norton CrashGuard Monitor
Norton Email protect
Scan Registry
System Tray
TPP Auto Loader

Start-up User
Clean Sweap
Norton System Doctor
Everything else is empty

I am now running housecall. we'll see what happens after that.
Thanks again Folks. For putting some time in this.
Bill

 

Plus I thought it was cured after bypassing the start-up files
but did not. it still is very slow. it doesn't seem to loose time
though. so, I have stopped the freezes. now it just takes a while
to do anything. I will let you know what happens when house call is done.
Thanks folks

 

Hi all!
I would suggest the following: run "msconfig ", and disable "Load Power Profile" and crashguard. Crashguard is very buggy, and actually causes crashes Also, Windows power porfile can conflict with the power settings in the BIOS and cause problems, so should probably be disabled.
I might also suggest disbaling Nav DefAlert, as this does nothing but tell you when your antivirus is to old. So long as you update weekly, your fine. Finally, if you don't know what TPP autoloader is, I suggest disabling it as well.
Try these options, and let us know how it goes.

 

Norton CrashGuard Monitor

Ryder is right.

Deffinetly get rid of of that trouble maker. It causes more crashes than anything.

Also if you are using the version of Symantec products that contain it you need to UPGRADE to a newer version.

CG was illiminated 2 or 3 versions back.

BillyBob

 

Ryder Iwill give that a try later tonite when I get home
Thanks a lot for the help folks. I willet you know.

 

I will and thanks Billybob

 

The other one to get rid of is System Doctor.

It is overkill to have it continually running and is probably the one that is causing the erratic performance.

Just run the other Norton apps on a regular basis. Disk Doctor, Win Doctor, Speedisk, etc.

 

I'm watching this one with interest, since when I changed from W95a/IE 5.1 to W98SE/IE5.5 I am experiencing the same symtptons and this never occurred with W95.
I've tried most of the suggestions offered here, including a software CPU cooler called Waterfall. I don't run any housekeeping software, prefering to look after that myself.
An interesting thing though, I run a timer program called ccm30 as I am on a two hour/day account. It starts a elapsed time clock as soon as I am connected and I have noticed that when I get these mometary freezes and then the restart, the timer which has stopped also restarts but with the correct elapsed time as if nothing had happened. Seems like a Video adpater problem where everything is running happily in the background and the video adapter just goes walkabout for a short period.
It's a Nividia Geforce2 MX/MX 400 with the latest drivers installed and it worked fine with W95.
As I said, I'll be watching.