When I shut down my computer the "windows is shutting
down" screen appears but the computer never shuts off.  
When I shut it off manually I obviously have to go through
the scan disk at startup.  Is there a way I can get the

While trying to correct frequent disconnects, Bellsouth
tech support had me remove several programs (can't begin
to tell you how or what), but then my scanner wouldn't
work.  By reinstalling, corrected that problem.  Now find

Any ideas why the UtilMind Resource Meter would want access to the
internet (according to Zone Alarm) when I start it up?

I'm running Win98SE that was originally installed from
disk as First Edition but then upgraded to SE via the
Microsoft update patches.
Whenever I cold boot my computer, Windows 98 stars in Safe

When I try to shutdown, restart or log off, the computer
hangs, then an option to end a task envolving "QTPlayer
Tray Icon".  I choose End Task and it locks up and I have
to shut it down manually.  If I chose 'Wait' it still

I am having a problem running the scan disk. It keeps
telling me that I have too many files in my top file and
to delete some. Any suggestions as where to look?
Thanks

I downloaded Win 98 updates to a PC yesterday and now
when starting the PC, I get the message "Install on
Demand (Internet Explorer) has detected an error" and a
message about Visual Basic Scripting Support.  I can get

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I RECEIVED THIS EARLY THIS MORNING & MY VIRUS SOFTWARE

Upon start up my PC seems to run acceptably but shortly
after, the cursor seems to be interupted by other
processes and the cursor only responds intermittently.  
The problem gets worse the longer the pc stays on.  

My mouse is plugged into my compute but when my computer
is turned on it says it cannot detect the mouse and i do
not have control of the mouse.

 I'm sure that this newsgroup is the correct place, but
if you can help me or tell me where's the best place to
ask this question I will appreciate it.
Ok, so I wanted to save dump files (more precisely 'crash

Any help would be appreciated-- Recently my computer speed
has noticeably slowed, printer only running at about 1/3
of prior speed.  Have run disk defrag. and that made no
difference.  Hard drive only about 60% full.   Also I did

When running scandisk I get a message "detected invalid
long file name entry" got another message "hosts contains
illegal long file name entries on drive C"  Any ideas on
what I need to do to remedy this ?

My computer keeps saying that there is not enough free
memory to run anything. This is not true, as my main C
drive is only about a quarter full, and my D drive is
about half full.  I have tried reloading Win98 and booting

I've just installed a new hard drive, and everything seems
to work fine - I can see my new drive as well as the old
one, and a CD-RW and a CD-ROM I have. But there is a
problem: I can copy data from my CD drives to hard drives,