Dear TT4U,
On the theory of "better late than never"...
Thanks much for your detailed comments and suggestions.
As it happens, all the problems went away when I simply upgraded to Windows2000! What a difference!
- Jim
I've run scandisk. No problems found.
I've turned of "autocheck" in Norton AntiVirus. No discernable difference.
It IS possible that neglected to turn off antivirus while installing applications. I remember thinking it would be a good idea to install Norton as one of the first apps...
mattjurado asked:
"So what happens if you boot to safe mode, any faster?"
Oddly enough, I can't seem to start in Safe Mode. When I follow the direction in Help and press CTRL when restarting, I get a couple of error messages. One says:
The fileC/SAMSUNG/SSCDROM.SYS file is missing...
Matt,
I guess it's not that fresh - I have installed my applications. I checked for Win98 patches but only found IE updates. I did disable a couple of the processes I could decipher, but no discernable change.
Could it be the result of running one large partition on the 40GB disk?
I also...
I have Windows98 freshly installed on a new 40GB hard disk on a Dell 566 with 384mb memory. Everything is working fine, except that it takes a long time (2-3 seconds) to open a folder.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for the response, but I have several uninstallers. The problem is that Pop-up Stopper appears to be gone, but its effects are not. Perhaps it changed a setting in IE? My problem is that I do know WHAT to delete and where.
I used "Pop-Up Stopper" (and the pop-up stopper in the Google toolbar for IE) to stop pop-up windows from appearing in Internet Explorer; however, I found many sites used pop-ups that I needed to see. So, I changed the setting (or so I thought) and deleted Pop-Up Stopper, but now I...
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