When I started having problems similar to yours, I had Win 98.  After a short period of time it was anybody's guess if it would boot into Windows. I started getting blue screens, and would have to reboot an average of 5 times before it would load Windows.  I could not find the problem, and eventually reformatted and reinstalled Windows. Along the way Scandisk could not complete a run, I got e-mail error messages or Outlook would freeze up the OS while downloading mail, which required manual reboots. As a general rule, if you have a corrupt registry, it's time to start over with a reinstall. If you don't have a copy of Win 98 or 98 SE, try going to www.bigclearance.com where you can by OEM copies of most Win OS's at big discounts. I would suggest you skip Win Me as it is not real friendly to your Win 95 programs and hardware.  If you want to have USB available you'll need to get at least Win 98.
>I began having problems just after installing a new virus protector, but they say it is not their problem but my computer. My controls c&v won't work. I can copy and paste though. I contacted my server and they say it is not their fault that I need to upgrade IE 5. An upgrade will not download.  I have Windows 95 and an update for it will not download and my virus protector update won't download. Sometimes when I first bring my mail up I get a message that says "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Contact program vendor". I go out of the program and bring it back on and everything is fine. It doesn't do this every time. I have also received a message when bringing in the mail that says "Windows encountered an error in the system registry, restart Windows". When using Scan Disk I got this message  "Scan Disk has restarted 10 times because Windows or another program has been writing to this drive, quit some programs." Nothing else was running. As far as I can tell everything else on the computer works fine.What is my problem and can I fix it?
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