PC Freezup

Jody Carver · Post by **Jody Carver** » 18 Mar 2005 6:26 am

I have windows 98 SE and I am expierencing
freeze ups often. I have to shut down by power off and unable to close my windows with the mouse. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Papa Joe Pollick · Post by **Papa Joe Pollick** » 18 Mar 2005 7:05 am

Hi Jody,hope your feelin better..I have the same operating system and the same proplem..Will be glad to hear what the "gurus"have to say..Good luck and God Bless..P.J.

pdl20 · Post by **pdl20** » 18 Mar 2005 7:06 am

have you defraged the hard drive lately and you may be needing to increase your memory.good ole windows 98.mine used to do that till i added more memory ram.

pdl20 · Post by **pdl20** » 18 Mar 2005 7:09 am

mine still gives me hick-ups now and then.get well soon Jody

Lee Warren · Post by **Lee Warren** » 18 Mar 2005 9:20 am

Hi there,
I'm no guru, but I do use windows 98se.
I've had this problem, and my approach was:
How full is the hard drive?
If it's 70 - 80% full, you may have to offload some data.
Performance can drop off quickly as the drive gets full.
(Unlike magnetic tape, which stores information in a linear stream, hard drives store data in a random fashion, making it increasing difficult for the computer to find all the parts that make up the item you've called up).

Defragment the hard drive.
This is part of the same issue.
Defragging makes the computer organize the disk, "closing up the gaps" if you like, while creating big blocks of contiguous space to write to.

Run antivirus software.
Things seems to creep in "under the radar" no matter how dilligent we are about this!
If the software you have doesn't find anything, you may not be out of the woods yet.
Try AVG, Ad-aware and Spybot which are all good (and free!).
I also use the free online scan at: http://housecall.trendmicro.com
It has ferreted out several things that the others missed.

I hope this may help!
Lee
p.s.
you can also see if anything unusual or unneccesary is "running in the background" by running msconfig from Run... in the Start menu.[This message was edited by Lee Warren on 18 March 2005 at 09:21 AM.][This message was edited by Lee Warren on 18 March 2005 at 09:23 AM.]

Papa Joe Pollick · Post by **Papa Joe Pollick** » 18 Mar 2005 10:27 am

Thanks Lee..I do defrag a lot and I have plenty of HD.Your other tips look good..I'll give'em a shot.thanks again..J.P.

Jody Carver · Post by **Jody Carver** » 18 Mar 2005 11:56 am

Thank you.I do defrag and scan disc and keep my virus definition's up to date.I wonder if I should back up whatever I need to save and do a complete re-install on windows 98 ?

Anyhow thanks for the tips I'll follow through

Thank you