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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Performance / September 2005Bizzare Mouse & Windows Behavior
Over the past few days the following 2 different scenarios occur on my Gateway desktop running Win98SE. (1) While in IE6, the mouse will "freeze" for about 30 seconds and then be fine. About 10 minutes later the same thing happens. About 5-10 minutes later is completely freezes. The system is not hung because I can use the keyboard to move about. Then, the keyboard freezes and I have to power off. (2) While in IE6, the mouse will "freeze" for about 30 seconds and then be fine. About 10 minutes later the same thing happens. Then, as I move the mouse, windows start opening up, resizing, status bar reorients itself, windows cascade, windows tile, etc etc. BIZZARE-O!! I have run a complete virus check (Norton 2005) with no problems found; I have run SpyBot and removed all the problems; I have plenty of disk space & memory for my use; I have swapped my mouse. ANY IDEAS OF WHAT TO CHECK OR DO WOULD BE APPRECIATED!! I did not need an answer for this particular problem. I had posted a question about Access 2000 archiving to a log in a database-- LCRogers > Over the past few days the following 2 different scenarios occur on my > Gateway desktop running Win98SE. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > ANY IDEAS OF WHAT TO CHECK OR DO WOULD BE APPRECIATED!! > I have run a complete virus check (Norton 2005) with no problems > found; I have run SpyBot and removed all the problems; I have plenty > of disk space & memory for my use; I have swapped my mouse. Okay... www.lavasoft.de and download AdAware. Update both that and Spybot. Reboot and press F8 and enter safe mode. Then try your scan again. As you're using 98 this isn't all useful to you - you can't use the Microsoft AntiSpyware beta for instance and the safe mode for you is already safe mode without networking but here's some other tools you can use to check. Again, do your scan in safe mode. You mentioned having problems and cleaning them and while the application may indeed say it has cleaned them it's hard to kill a malware process that's running and most malware will not be running in safe mode which makes the scanning and cleaning more effective. Malware Cleaning : http://www.kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html Please ignore the parts about the CA eTrust as the trial (year long) is only for XP users if I recall correctly and the part about safe mode without networking isn't important to you as you're using 98. Galen  Signature"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby." Sherlock Holmes Try checking the settings on your Task Scheduler. Are they set to check for updates every 5 or 10 minutes? I noticed this on my computer and am about to change them to check once a day instead of every five minutes. Both McAfee and Windows Update are set for every five minutes 24hrs a day. Windows Update does a scan on your computer each time also. > Over the past few days the following 2 different scenarios occur on my > Gateway desktop running Win98SE. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > ANY IDEAS OF WHAT TO CHECK OR DO WOULD BE APPRECIATED!! |
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