About a week ago my old Dell Precision 486 slowed down to
the point where the thorough ScanDisk now takes me around
24 hrs. to complete - defrag about half that time. To
bring up the desktop at start-up takes probably 10

Can anyone advise why when I shut down from the start menu
windows will not shut down completley.  It seems part of
my CPU shuts down but I still have to press and hold the
power button until it completley shuts down.

still having some trouble with low system resources and
want to revamp my start up. I am unsure as to what
programs are not necessary for start up and which items i
can remove from the list...anyone help pls???

I have done as instructed in the
knowledge base but at the point of this recomadadition:
"Click Plug and Play BIOS, and then click to select the
Disable NVRAM / ESCD updates check box on the Settings tab.

Can anyone advise the best method for clearing space in
Drive E(System Save)?  I only have 224MB left and I think
it may be causing some problems. I tried to compress it
but am being alerted 'Drive E cannot be compressed because

What's the story on the C:\temp folder? It has gotten quite large on my
computer over the years. What is it good for?
I used Find here, and retrieved the recent forum discussion about deleting
the contents of the C:\Windows\TEMP folder, but nothing about C:\temp

Wordpad caused an invalid page faultin module MSWRD832.CNV
at 017f:0140f6d5
This what I get when I attempt to open recently received
doc files. All other doc files open fine. Does any one

Hello, I am a novice computer person trying to learn from
the beginning and i am comeing across a little problem. my
computer runs win98 and it will boot to the desktop. but
after all pgmseem to load a window called untitled paint

when I start up my windows 98 it gets to the start up
screen then my monitor goes blank.  I know it's not the
monitor because I have switched it with one that I know
works

trying to speed up win98 se...system res are low 55% and
cant fingure out why..I dont have a lot of programs..i do
have a firewall and norton but have never had the
resources so low...any ideas?

I posted this problem under another topic - Gen.
Discussion.  And, received a reply (ty Alan... :o), that
unfortunately didn't do the trick.
Prob:  I can't left click the C folder in My Computer,

I now have a new error coming up after I updated windows98.
"memory access violation in module Kernel32 at ( it gives
a bunch of numbers).  
I only have 32MB left on my machine.  I am trying to get

Sorry this has probably been asked heaps of times and I have tried to search
for it on line to no avail.
My aunty is running Win98 and every time she starts her computer it comes up
with the following message:

I think I deleted something critical for the Windows 98
Help program to work.  I can open the Help program, choose
a topic, and answer the first question, but then the next
page seen is totally blank.  Sound like I need to

Over the past few weeks, the performance of my computer
has become progressively worse, to the point where I get
error messages about not having enough memory and am
forced to reboot just a few minutes after starting