You may have gotten it to run in safe mode. Nonetheless, here are some tips on disabling 
Find Fast and other info. If you still have Find Fast installed, follow MS instr. 
to get rid of it. It's a resource hog and runs every few minutes, just in case you 
decide to open an Office program. It's useless. 

Clear your browser cache and other temps first. Make sure your AV program isn't running. 
Always run scan disk before defrag.

Download WinME's defrag tool and replace your original. It's much faster than the 
one in 98.

NewDefrag

Go to Start - Settings - Control Panel - Internet Options

Under the General tab click the Delete temporary internet files, choose to delete 
all Offline content and click Clear History button. 

Go to Find - Files or folders - in the named box type: *.tmp and choose Edit - select 
all - File - delete. Do the same for *.chk. Then type: temp. Empty the contents of 
the C:\Windows\temp folder. Delete this folder - C:\Windows\Applog; it will be re-created 
at bootup, but it'll be empty. Empty Recycle bin

Normal mode:
Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except 
for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver by setting to "None." Run scandisk 
in "Standard" then defrag. Reboot.

Tip: If you're using Microsoft Office, follow Microsoft's instructions to kill the 
Find Fast Indexer. It interferes badly with system performance and maintenance. Note: 
Do NOT renable it, it's usless and uses lots of resources.

Kill Find Fast

FYI, In case you have problems with the maintenance completing, PC Mag has an app 
that will kill all running processes. 

EnditAll

To remove unnecessary processes from your startup area. Those are constantly running 
in the background. Most programs can just be started when needed.

Right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn 
off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature. 

For the others, go to Start - Run, type: msconfig. Under startup tab....  Leave Systray, 
Scan Registry, Load Power Profile (two), firewall, if you have one. 

Note: Load Power Profile only if you use power saving schemes. For info. on any other 
processes that you have listed, check here to see whether they're needed in your 
startup.

Startups

Just an extra tip, if you're interested. Windows doesn't do very well at unloading 
dll's from memory, when you close programs. This will help free up resources. 

If you're not comfortable or familiar with using regedit, I can post the file, for 
you to save and merge.

Unload DLLs

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