freezing

[sweetcheekies]

Okay here we go again.. I am running Win98 second edition with IE6. Lately my computer keeps freezing for no reason.. its not a specific thing i am doing.. it will just freeze up.. now i have run defrag, scan disk, norton utilities, emtied temp files, deleted history etc.. I am running on a 500mb DSL connection. any one have any ideas what I can do now?

Thanks Sweet

 

[DoyceJ]

Any new additions and have you checked resources and msconfig?

 

[sweetcheekies]

hmm nope no new things.. resources are at mem says 128 mb 76% utilized.. i think that is the resources thing ...lol and msconfig how do i do that?

sweet

 

[sweetcheekies]

sorry it was72% free

 

[DoyceJ]

Resources- Right click my computer>properties>performance tab>system resources. It will go down as you work and fix itself when you do a restart. If the freezing happens after a certain amount of time keep an eye on resources and see if they drop.

Msconfig will help to account for some of the resources. It is everything you have loading at start-up. It may or may not account for the freeze. Two ways to view it, only one way to copy and paste what you have. To view-start>run>type msconfig>start tab. To copy and paste-start>run>type msinfo32>expand software environment>click start up>edit>select all>edit>copy.


Do you notice this happening at certain web sites or when you open certain programs?

 

[sweetcheekies]

ScanRegistry Registry (Machine Run) C:\WINDOWS\scanregw.exe /autorun
SystemTray Registry (Machine Run) SysTray.Exe
gnetmous Registry (Machine Run)
LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Run) Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
New.net Startup Registry (Machine Run) rundll32 C:\WINDOWS\NEWDOT~1.DLL,NewDotNetStartup
webHancer Agent Registry (Machine Run) "C:\Program Files\webHancer\Programs\whAgent.exe"
LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Service) Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
SchedulingAgent Registry (Machine Service) mstask.exe



that is everything i have on my start up .. now as for my resources i have only 65% as soon as i started up so its down from yesterday even.

Donna

 

[DoyceJ]

New net is spyware.

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/n.htm

 

[sweetcheekies]

what is spyware?

Sweet

 

[DoyceJ]

Nasty stuff and causes freeze ups.

http://www.spychecker.com/spyware.html

 

[sweetcheekies]

Thank you very much I appreciate your help.. how the heck did that get on my puter???

sweet

 

[DoyceJ]

It explains it in the first link when you click here in the NEW.net box. Happens to everyone once in a while.