Alex,

I did run LINUX Slackware, winNT and win95 on my machine for a couple of
month without any decrease in performance. Of corse I had to boot my
computer in one of those operating systems. In fact having a Red Hat
"sleeping" on it's own partition will not effect your performance at
all.
I would recommend that you checked your running tasks and startup
programs as I suggested earlier and uncheck those you do not need.
Unfortunately "CTRL + ALT + DEL   **one** time ONLY" as Jim Meagher
recommends will only show some of the tasks, NOT *all* of them.  Almost
all programs that you install are trying to run on startup, and there is
another hint -- open your \\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp and see
what is in there.  Move all shortcuts that you do not want into a
temporary folder and see if it will help.

Eugene Khayutin

Alex Polenov wrote:
>
> I have Win98Rus on IP-200mmx, 32mb ram, 3.2Gb hdd. Most of time
> it works good but sometimes has problems. Maybe in case I have
> Linux RH5.0 running with Win98.
>
> I run DrWeb and McAffee later versions. There is no viruses
> exepted wordmacro I've deleted.
>
> Alex
>
> > Alex,
> > It would not be a bad idea if you supplied as with more information
> > about your system and the OS, you run.  I do recall, however that you
> > mentioned Win98 in your previous posts.  If it is the case, then you can
> > use a nice utility 'MS System Information' from START /ACCESSORIES
> > /SYSTEM TOOLS /SYSTEM INFORMATION to troubleshoot your problem.  Take a
> > look at 'Software Environment' - 'Running Tasks' and 'Startup Programs'.
> > You can use 'System Configuration Utility' from the 'Tools' menu to
> > reduce your startup load.  Also try to run a good anti-virus program to
> > see if it will give you an answer.

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