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by darkriver4362

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Hi everyone, first post here, I have a question about Windows 98 running on a IBM Thinkpad 233 Pentium, first of all it's not mine, it's my uncles. The problem he has is that about after 15 minuites online, it totally freezes up, ctrl alt del doesn't even work. We checked to see if it has any conflicts but everything seems to check out alright, it also locks up every once in a while while not online. ANY suggestions are greatly appriciated. Thanks

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by pierrejamme

If you have scanned for viruses and found none, then it is probably loaded up with SpyWare.
15 minutes isn't much time, so go directly to:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and download AdAware, install it and then check for updates. You can run this offline after you have finished update. Even better yet is if you have access to a CDR or USB Drive, download the program and the relist.zip to that and take it to your uncle. Remove Everything it finds.

Then go to:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

Download SpyBot, Install it and check for updates
and scan and remove everything it finds.
Then convince him by showing him all the malware you found to get a firewall.

Good Luck

by pierrejamme

Two other very good programs are Spy Sweeper and Pest Patrol, however there is a charge for them.

by thechas

Which web browser are you using?

If it is IE 6, that may be the problem.

I have seen IE 6 cause a major memory leak, which can lead to system freezes.

If you have IE6, I suggest that you remove it, and go back to IE 5.5SP2, or an alternate browser such as Mozilla (www.mozilla.org)

Alos, DO NOT install DirectX 9 on this laptop.

The older video system will lead to problems with newer software such as IE6 and DirectX9. Even the MS Office XP or newer can cause problems with older hardware.

Another thing.
Windows 98 has a maximum installed life of around 2 years. After that, the registry and system files grow so large that they slow the system down significantly.
While wiping the hard drive and starting over is drastic, it may be what will be needed to stop the freeze-ups.

Chas

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