Defragging is either not advancing at all (beyond 7% in 24
hours in the present case) or proceeding very, very slowly
(2 weeks ago on my other computer). My disks/content are
not that big - 4 gig/2.5 Gig in the present case, 6

I have no sound in my compouter anymore, how can I fix
this problem?

When running disk defragmentor and attempting to run
Norton antivirus scan, and at other times as well, I get a
blue screen with the message "a fatal exception has
occured at 0028:C0027F74 The current application will be

I keep getting explorer error messages and then it goes to
the famous blue screen.  The errors are OE O167:BFF9DFF
and OD 17C7:OOOOO3DO.  My system has become very unstable
and "crashes" about every 10 min.  Any suggestions?  I

i recently upgraded from win95 to 98.however my display is
very poor with fuzzy color. i tried increasing the screen
resolution but the slide bar cant even move.
PLEASE HELP. THANKS

Can someone fill me in about Virtual Memory?  
Specifically, I think that my Windows 98SE is not
performing as well as I think it should be.  Checking
memory usage it shows that the system, on start up, uses

I have 2048 mb of ram installed
All works well in Windows XP.
When I dual boot to Win98SE, I can get it to boot and operate properly if I
add these lines to the system.ini file:

The Virtual Memory tab in System properties reports a
negative number for my new Maxtor 120G C: hard disk free
size. Per Microsoft Article 272620 my problem can be fix
with the hotfix "09/12/2000 02:31p 4.10.2224 384,144

Every time I install a MS patch or upgrade the machine
seems to run more slowly. I'm told that this is a Windows
98 problem and nothing less than a format c: will improve
things. Anyone know otherwise?

My PC clock loses between 10 - 30 mins over 8 - 10 hours
whilst connected to internet requiring restart. The PC
performance drops off at the same time.

Toolbar disappeard, and can't get it back?

I have a 16 bit software application. If I am connected to
the internet and I click on the shortcut icon for this
program on my desktop or in the program menu, the monitor
screen blacks out and the mouse cursor either locks or will

When starting Win98, I get the "Windows Protection Error"
and when I check bootlog.txt in Safe Mode, I find that the
True Type font files had errors loading.  Any suggestions?
Thanks

Since accepting this about a week ago I get error messages
on start up  such as "Memory access violation in module
kernel 32 at- " then a series of numbers which varies each
time I start up. Sometimes the m/c freezes before boot up

When I start my computer with Windows 98 I get a message
that says it cannot load the file "2ndsrch.dll". It says
it is the wrong format.  How can I fix this?