On 24 Mar 2002, at 0:11, Mike Whalen wrote:

> I am diagnosing a Windows 98 system. The user is complaining about
> general sluggishness and instability.

  The last couple of times I've looked at problems like this, I found
the TEMP directory very full, accounting for over half the space on
the hard drive, and even interfering with the ability of the swap
file to grow.

> The second thing I did was run a thorough scandisk and defrag.

  If the defrag ran in reasonable time, then the drive is not
actually full.

> Hmmm... he is running the lateast McAfee defs. Could there be a virus?

  I had a machine that was terribly slow when I tried to have both
McAfee and Norton antivirus products installed....

Dave Gillett

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