Help with win 98

[JMD 0]

Hello

 

Now I know this is an NT forum but my friend is running win 98 and she is having problems with shutting down. She says it takes about 5 minuets to shut the computer down.

 

She just uses it for office work nothing major. She probably hasen't defraged in a about 6 months, but I still don't think that would be the cause of a 5 min shutdown.

 

I have been telling her to get another 64 megs of Ram, she is currently running with 64 megs

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

[Down8 0]

Not to be a total bastard, but there is a Win9x/ME section on these boards. People don't mind answering non-NT questions, but you should try to keep them in the correct place.

 

Back to the topic: With RAM so cheap, no one should be running less than 128MB, so tell her to spend the $30 and get some more RAM. Also, get her to defrag that machine - while that may not be the complete cause of the slow down, I'm sure it's adding to it.

 

Also check for random crap she may have installed/running.

 

-bZj

[clutch 1]

A. It should run fine with 64MB anyway.

 

B. There is more than likely something running in the background that isn't shutting down in a timely manner. Go into "Task Manger" (well, it's *something* like it ) and look at what is running. You should then try to close down one thing at a time and then shutdown the PC. If the PC shuts down quickly, then that's the problem program and see if there is an update for it. If not, then try a different one and repeat the process.

 

C. Defragging would be a good idea, but I am not sure that it would contribute heavily to a slow shutdown issue. Now Scandisk might be a good idea, and you would have to run that anyway before doing a defrag.

[JMD 0]

Thanks guys..sorry about the improperly placed post.

 

Cheers:o