On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:05:34 GMT, "JohnO" <johno@@&%heathkit##.com> wrote:
>>
>> How much free space is on the drive? With that little RAM, she is
>> bound to be using a swapfile a lot. Have you checked her resources?
>>
>
>...Assuming you've emptied out the startup folder and checked the 'run'
>section of the registry for adware/spyware...more resources is what I'd
>recommend, too. A 256 MB stick will work wonders, and for $40 a 20 GB HDD
>will make a huge diff. 98 SE will run fine on such a machine.
>
>-John O
>
Actually, 98SE wil run fine on the machine she has now. If you asked her if it was fast when she got
it, I'll bet she would say it was. That is how fast it should run now. It should not take 20 minutes
to boot. It is obviously infected with spyware. First thing is to boot in Safe Mode and clean out
the startup files in msconfig. Look at the Add Remove Programs folder and see what is added in there
(WeatherBug, wild tangeant and all the other goodies) and tet them out. Look in the registry and
take out all of the items that look suspicious in the run directory.
I wouldnt buy more memory or hard drives. I had a client go out and buy a new $1500 pc from Circuit
City. One day later, it was slower than the old one she had. She insisted it was defective and was
returning it. I looked at it and sure enough, she had spyware that was eating up 100% of her memory.
I killed the process and the PC was flying once again.
After you get it cleaned a bit, run spyware and adware removers and it will run fast. 64 meg is
plenty for win98m unless she is running Photoshop, Office, Surfing, etc all at one time.
Tony
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