We have several machines with little in common other than they are all running Win98SE. All are at least PIII 450’s with 128MB RAM. They are not all the same vendor or model, but most are Dell OptiPlex’s.
The problem is that they progressively degrade over a period of hours to the point where the mouse cursor will move as much as a second after the mouse is moved, all performance seems to go in jerks, and the Windows clock (not the system clock) loses up to an hour out of every six. This performance degradation vanishes when the computer is rebooted, but comes back gradually over a period of hours. We have tried all sorts of things to isolate the problem but are not having any luck.
Any input from others who have experienced similar problems would be welcome, especially if you think you know the cause. I have search Microsoft and many other sites for similar problems and have found nothing.
— Del Hawley
