Haven't used 98 in a long time and I have an online friend with a problem. Any ideas are welcome. For quite a while now I have been having probs and it has gradually gotten worse.
I bought it in June of last year so it is not even a year old. (This is my 3rd computer so I am not an entirely ignorant computer user.) I am using win98 second edition and have upgraded to IE 5.5 because 6.0 really created havoc.... I have erased the harddrive completely, reinstalled everything 4 times.... and after a couple of weeks the same thing started over and like I said above is constantly getting worse.
I don't have any of my graphic or photo programs installed. I am using what I call a bare bones computer... I am partitioned and haven't used a 1/4 of either drive, so I should have enough disk space. The modem is a conexant 56K.
Now for the problems.
It is constantly telling me I don't have enough memory. If I am in a chat room it gets where I can't see what i am typing or what anyone else has typed. I have to do a total reboot. Sometimes even a cold boot to get it to work.
By now I can only have one browser window open and nothing else. I can not open a Word document and save it, or copy and paste to it if I am on the internet... I can't have MSN messenger open at all with the browser open.
I can only print something out if I am not online... and then only if I have one word document open and after the 2nd print out I need to reboot.
It takes almost a minute to a minute and 1/2 to change webpages... I connect good to the internet but the pages take literally forever. For every two hours I spend on the internet one hour of that is pages changing.
I have gone to start, to run and then typed msconfig and shut down all that I know I can for startup... My history is nil, my documents are cleaned out as are my temp files, internet temp files, recycle bin.
1.0 ghz athlon processor
20 gb harddrive
256mb ram PC133
My system.ini:
[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*VCD
device=*vpd
device=*int13
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF
PageBuffers=32
DMABufferSize=64
32BitDiskAccess=ON
PagingDrive=C:
MaxPagingFileSize=330240
MinPagingFileSize=330240
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
[vcache]
MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=4096
I bought it in June of last year so it is not even a year old. (This is my 3rd computer so I am not an entirely ignorant computer user.) I am using win98 second edition and have upgraded to IE 5.5 because 6.0 really created havoc.... I have erased the harddrive completely, reinstalled everything 4 times.... and after a couple of weeks the same thing started over and like I said above is constantly getting worse.
I don't have any of my graphic or photo programs installed. I am using what I call a bare bones computer... I am partitioned and haven't used a 1/4 of either drive, so I should have enough disk space. The modem is a conexant 56K.
Now for the problems.
It is constantly telling me I don't have enough memory. If I am in a chat room it gets where I can't see what i am typing or what anyone else has typed. I have to do a total reboot. Sometimes even a cold boot to get it to work.
By now I can only have one browser window open and nothing else. I can not open a Word document and save it, or copy and paste to it if I am on the internet... I can't have MSN messenger open at all with the browser open.
I can only print something out if I am not online... and then only if I have one word document open and after the 2nd print out I need to reboot.
It takes almost a minute to a minute and 1/2 to change webpages... I connect good to the internet but the pages take literally forever. For every two hours I spend on the internet one hour of that is pages changing.
I have gone to start, to run and then typed msconfig and shut down all that I know I can for startup... My history is nil, my documents are cleaned out as are my temp files, internet temp files, recycle bin.
1.0 ghz athlon processor
20 gb harddrive
256mb ram PC133
My system.ini:
[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*VCD
device=*vpd
device=*int13
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF
PageBuffers=32
DMABufferSize=64
32BitDiskAccess=ON
PagingDrive=C:
MaxPagingFileSize=330240
MinPagingFileSize=330240
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
[vcache]
MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=4096