Hi,

I have an AMD K6 350 with 128 MB RAM, running two HDD's with one 
partitioned with 98SE and NT on each respective partition. The other HDD acts as 
a swap file for the O/S that is active after booting. The problem is in Win 
98, when I open the My Computer applet from the desktop it opens okay, but if I 
try and access anything in the window - it hangs. I have to get rid of it 
using Task Manager, (Ctrl-Alt-Del). This impacts on everything as it causes 
all the icons in the toolbar to disappear - except for two . Thereafter the 
machine begins to act erratically with previous screens not closing and/or 
freezing up to the point that I have to shut down which when attempting to 
do so causes everything to disappear off the screen except for the 
background and there it hangs - thank god for the reset switch!

I've tried reinstalling Windows over the top of itself, running SFC and 
regclean, none seem to make any difference. I suspected that a demo of 
Toolbook Assistant may have been the cause when it installed Java runtime 
files and Assistant 7 as the PC crashed whilst trying to restart after 
installing it. It took five attempts to get back into Windows on that 
occasion and I removed the application when the issues with My Computer 
began, but no experienced improvement concerning the situation. Prior to these 
issues, 98 had been rock solid for three months since I last reformatted. I need this 
machine to hold out till Christmas before I reformat it again.

All theories, assistance etc gratefully accepted.

Regards Roger.

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