I'm running win98SE and suddenly a couple of weeks ago my maintenance
utilities stopped working.  They all get to a certain point then stop.  I
run them in safe mode and also tried using power defrag, and I keep getting
the same result.  I have Norton Systemworks 2000 and the same thing happens
with disk optimization in that program.

I have reinstalled windows twice and my system file checker shows no
problems.  Norton keeps telling me that I need to get on this, there's a
disk optimization alarm showing and it pops up and tries to run when I  run
my disk doctor, but also just stops.  I can't imagine what can have
happened.

Prior to this I ran all my windows maintenance utilities faithfully every
week with no problem.  I have been told that there can be no possible
correlation, but right before these things quit working I upgraded my IE
from 5.5 to 6.0.  I really didn't do anything else at that time, so that's
why I mention it anyway.  I have since gone back to the 5.5, for what it's
worth.

I would greatly appreciate any help with this.  It is not a possibility to
do a clean install or get it to a shop.  I am alone and homebound (as well
as CLUELESS)  in a remote locate and have to work this out on my own
somehow.

Mary Mc Donald

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