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re: computer help Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:26 am Posted by xxROCKSTARxx_1 (1 messages posted) hi, it come be many things happening here,try update ie to 6.0 or try reinstalling window 98 again you will not lose any data it you just update window 98 it just over write the files and put back what files may be missing,and try update the active x control also it sound like when you go to pages your computer can't handle the page itself so it lock up,these are a fews things i think could br wrong but try what i wrote above and see what happens and good luck bill ewaniuk On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:17 am, Melinda Fowler wrote: >Help me: > My computer freezes up alot and i don't know much about computers. I have >windows 98. My computer Freezes when i am on it i can be in a chat room or even doing >research and it will freeze. The name on my computer is a Spectrum7Vlr and my tower >or modem is an Inteva. Can any one help me. > Thank you, > Melinda Fowler [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: computer help Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:54 am Posted by Cathy (48 messages posted) You need to get Explorer 6.0 and all the updates I am giving you the URL to get them, hope this helps, Cathy.... http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp.... just copy this and paste it in your browser search. On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:17 am, Melinda Fowler wrote: >Help me: > My computer freezes up alot and i don't know much about computers. I have >windows 98. My computer Freezes when i am on it i can be in a chat room or even doing >research and it will freeze. The name on my computer is a Spectrum7Vlr and my tower >or modem is an Inteva. Can any one help me. > Thank you, > Melinda Fowler [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Tune-Up ! Friday, March 14, 2003 at 8:47 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) A lot of things can be affecting the performance. Disabling Find-Fast gives you better system resource availability for example: STOP FIND-FAST If you are not using SE then adding the AlwaysUnloadDll registry entry helps too: AlwaysUnloadDll This little freeware program is the best of all at helping your RAM to clear: RAMpage 1.6 And using a good defrag is essential for all: PRO-DEFRAG [LITE VERSION] Keeping "bloat files", such as index.dat empty helps very much as well: .......... Automatic Deletion of TIF, TEMP & index.dat files. Delindex And for all other temp files: EmpTemp And running anti-spyware programs over your system helps too: SpyBot is a VERY revealing program! Click on Language flag. AdAware 6.0  SpywareBlaster Running a good on-line anti-virus and security check is freely available and there to help you: Free on-line Anti-Virus check: HouseCall Anti Virus & Panda On-Line And another from Symantec: Norton-Symantec On-line security check from: Symantec Security Check Configure your connection to protect your bios, etc. ... and a little more RAM can help too: [128-256Mb] depending on what you are using the computer for. Don't add more than your overall system can handle. MICRON RAM at CRUCIAL OR PRICEWATCH Now you should see the speed increase with a clean system: Mac IMPROVING PERFORMANCE ME '98 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: computer help Friday, March 14, 2003 at 9:31 am Posted by BrizBoy (110 messages posted) An effective firewall can ensure that you are not being attacked from the internet which can cause these problems . The following site may help to explain attacks threatened via chatrooms http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/nuke/ Also visit http://www.wilders.org/firewalls.htm A quote from their site "IRC and chat nuking. People who use chat groups (IRC, ICQ) tend to invite harassing interference from other malicious chatters. These lamers send "ICMP nukes" and other datagrams to tell your system that it can no longer reach the chat server. A firewall can block this". This site explains firewalls in an easy to understand manner and lists free and commercial firewalls that you buy or download. I use Sygate Personal Firewall which eliminated similar problems. Cheers On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:26 am, xxROCKSTARxx_1 wrote: >hi, >it come be many things happening here,try update ie to 6.0 or try reinstalling window >98 again you will not lose any data it you just update window 98 it just over write >the files and put back what files may be missing,and try update the active x control >also it sound like when you go to pages your computer can't handle the page itself >so it lock up,these are a fews things i think could br wrong but try what i wrote >above and see what happens and good luck >bill ewaniuk > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum