Victor Firestone wrote:
> A friend of mine recently - 2 weeks ago purchased a new comp - details about
> the comp forthcoming. Thing is the comp is running nearly all the time at
> 90% and above  used resources and is very unstable. I have checked and
> rechecked to see what is loading during booting but asides from the normal
> Win 98 stuff - nothing - even the Compaq technician that came round couldn't
> figure it out!!!!

   So assuming you used msconfig.exe to look at what is loading then I'd
say your best bet is to format and reload Windows. Perhaps the Compaq
came with a recovery CD?


Russell Smith
Edtech Consultant, Journalist
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