Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Click here to start participating now! Also, check out the New User Guide.
Entire system slows down
Name: MindsEye Date: February 2, 2005 at 18:32:14 Pacific OS: Win98 SE CPU/Ram: P4 - 1.6 / 512
Comment:
Hi there My mom's computer has a problem that has me stumped. The entire system slows right down and even the clock loses time. When you click on any program to open it, it finally opens about 10 minutes later. I've run the anti-virus, adaware, scandisk, defrag, cleared out all the temp files and even replaced the battery on the mobo. Also she originally had 768 ram and I've heard that with anything over 512 Win98 can become unstable so I removed one of the 256 sticks. I've also checked the power supply and everything seems fine. Anyone have any ideas at all? My mom is driving me nuts over this.
Name: Langener Date: February 2, 2005 at 18:49:00 Pacific
Reply:
This is only a Test..... Go to FIND and type in oem*.inf and see if any .inf Files come up with 0 KB. If so, DELETE them. Don't DELETE the ones that show any Contents.
0
Response Number 2
Name: Derek Date: February 2, 2005 at 20:17:37 Pacific
Reply:
Can you see anything running in the background that is suspicious:
Summary: I'm having a weird problem where my computer slows right down after a certain amount of time (less than an hour). Right-click menu's etc take a while to open, programs take ages to start. I bought Nor...
Summary: My system starts to slow down and freeze after several months of operation. I have, in the past, backed up all data on my primary drive, with the exception of the windows folder, to my secondary drive...
Summary: Dear friend, My system is having Windows Millineaum.My ram is 32MB and system is Pentium-1, 166MHZ.My harddisk is 3.2GB.I want to install few more languages like Oracle,Visual basic6 and JAva.For thi...
0 
Visio 2003 not in A/Remov...
