When I get to the defrag box and am ready to start, the
box shows "C drive locked by a disk utility" This comes
under the id no. DEFRAG00105. We have Windows 98 2dn Edn
installed.

My computer is constantly locking up.  What can I do?  It
is very frustrating to have to keep restarting.

I'm using windows 98, and a compaq LP300 printer. When I
print photo's from this web site online, they print with
white lines across the intire photo. I have tried to
correct it but can't. can any one of you help me ?

When I run ScanDisk I always get the message "ScanDisk has
restarted 10 times because Windows or another program has
been writing to this drive.....". My question is, how do I
know what programs are running? I have no windows open and

Kind of embarrasing, but I've spent an hour already
looking for this -- how can I tell my computer's processor
speed? I can't seem to find this anywhere!

i have been having problems with my computer and tried
running a scan disk to fix some of the problems.During the
scan disk a window pops up and says that the top level
folder is full and it cannot continue until some files are

Hi i think i have a related topic (about the performance
of win98SE)
memory problem:
i have 512 MB ram:

i'm have a problem with everything refreshing all the
time. for instance on my desktop all the icons constantly
refresh every 5 seconds. other programs when i'm in them
also keep doing the same. i ran scan check and defrag my

trying to find out what the file ledll is associated with.
Getting an error message that says file is corrupted. Also
getting a error message that says loader has performed an
illegal operation and will be shut down. Can anyone please

when I run msconfig to select the startup programs,  there are many program
items be selected not load with windows startup.  and some are duplicated.
How can I edit the startup list and erase those unwanted items.
thanks and best regards,

Does anyone know of a way to control the order of execution of programmes in
the \WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp folder?
I have two programmes, but one MUST execute to log into a network prior to
trying to execute the other.

When I check the  performance in control panel I'm running
60% and I hit control .alt/ delete there are a number of
programs open that I have to close all the time. How can I
KEEP THESE PROGRAMS FROM OPENING UP.

a few days ago my computer went into ms dos compatibility
mode and i can't get it to go back the way it was can any
one tell me what i can do?

I have windows 98SE and 256 MB memory. Usually I have 3-4
programs open over the course of the day. Suddenly, the
program I am using warns "not enough memory/close
program." I close the program. This occurs with each

my computer is only reporting 184mb, when it should say
192mb, and now my icons are loading slow on my desktop.
Everything else seems to be fine. I went into Safe Mode
and adjusted the memory usage in the System Tools-System