Hello world!
Could you please tell me what are the required programs for Win98SE to run
at startup (the minimum)
Also in task manager (Cntr-Alt-Del) and in Startup tab in Msconfig.

OK, it's part II of the never ending saga of my garbage-can-rescue computer.
It's a P-III 962Mhz running Win98. I have a 40X CDROM of unknown type and a
Phillips CDRW 2400 series (according to the drawer cover).
I originally had problems with the BIOS chip being bad and the Windows ...

When my computer freezes, I shut down manually with the
power button.  When I turn the computer on again, the
yellow strip across the bottom of the screen no longer
appears, checking the drive for errors because of improper

I am running some communication software which reads/writes files and
transfers them through the internet in very small bursts.  If I open an
MS-DOS prompt and give it focus, my communications program slows to a snails
pace.  A file transfer which normally takes 6 seconds becomes 30 ...

For past several days I have noticed when I turn on my
notebook (Win98se), every so often, the phrase comes on
the screen: "Please wait while Setup updates the
configuration files.." (I believe that is the wording.)

My computer is an IBM PC 300PL Win 98se os, 500 mhrtz pIII  processor
with 576 mb ram. It has 3 memory slots. It came with 2 64mb sticks of
memory. I bought 2 256 sticks. I have put  64, 256, 256 respectively
into slots 1, 2 and 3. When I boot up memory checks out ok. When I

I am running WinXP Home and lately, it is taking about 45 seconds for Word
to start.
Other Office apps start fine, and I did a repair, which didn't help.
I have current virus protection and have run the latest copies of Ad-Aware

I have tried to use my emergency boot disc and have had no
luck.... is there anyway I can extract files before
replacing bad hard drive.... i have bad sectors when
scandisk runs....  How do you get bad sectors? Can you fix

I have a toshiba notebook computer( about 2 years old)
I have a pcmcia card install that have two
usb2 outputs. (the card bus is 32-bits)
One of the output I have go to a usb2 enclosure

I have found an unknown program that is called 7akq.exe.  
I don't know where it came from and if I don't
ctrl+alt+del and end it, it slows down my computer and
keeps the windows task bar from working.  Can anyone help?

How can I access the files that appear on the Startup tab
of the System Configuration Utility (msconfig)?  I'd like
to remove the files I don't want to have start up with my
computer from the available choices.

I keep getting this message that SERVICES caused an
invalid page fault in module Services.exec 017f:004032b3.I
can't find anything on this in the troubleshooting
database and I can't see any recognizable changes in the

I cannot get my computer to shut down all the way.  It
gets to the point of saying windows is shutting down.  
what can i do?

After downloading service pack 6, I lost all sound. What
can I do?

Whenever I turn on my computer, before it even fully boots
up, I am getting a message saying "work offline.  No
connection to the Internet is currently available.  to view
Internet content that has been saved on your computer,