I have had an improper shut down.Due to my computer freezing up often.I use Road Runner high speed internet, but I cant get online! I think I need to run Scan Disk for errors BUT when I try, it runs for 45 seconds tops then says it cannot run because I do not enough available memory. It says to shut down other programs. I have. But it still says I have the same problem. My C-Drive says I have 1.98 GB of free space. I have tried running scan disk in Safe mode but it does the same thing. When I run Norton to check for viruses it freezes up after a few minutes and cant complete the scan. I scan for spyware with Ad Aware and though that completes and sometimes finds some things, they are quarentined and deleted.It has not helped.HELP!!

Scott, FWIW, drive space and memory aren't the same thing. ME is a notorious memory hog and often fails to properly release memory after using it. The single biggest improvement I ever did to ME was to install a memory manager (I used Cachman, but there are many).
Try again OFFLINE and see if it'll work (don't forget safe mode). Another thought is to disable screensaver (know that affects defrag).
HTH.
Ed in Texas.

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try this!
Use one of these free on-line scanners (note some spyware,viruses and trojins have been known to disable PC based AV scanners):
http://housecall.trendmicro.com or http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm.

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Well thanks guys, but the problem is that I cant get online anymore with that computer. Can i download a free online scanner to a disk and then run it on my messed up computer? And I have tried running Scandisk in safe mode with all programs closed except Explorer

On a working computer, try downloading McAfees AVERT Stinger. It is a virus scan program that checks for the most common virus (about 45 of them) and is small enough to fit onto a blank diskette. You can then boot your system into Safe Mode and copy it from the diskette and run Stinger on your system to see if you have a common virus.

The error you are getting from ScanDisk may indicate that your disk drive file system is so corrupted that ScanDisk can not sort it out. Make a Windows ME startup diskette on a working system if you do not have one and then boot your system with it and see if you can run the Windows ME DOS mode version of Scandisk (A:\> SCANDISK C:) as it can detect such errors.