533 mhz E-machine from '99. Upgraded to 256 syncdram When I boot up the sysytem shows 80% resources. have used 7.1G of 15 hard drive space. The scannerich died months ago - no problems til lately. Never disconnected scanner from the printer- pc.

Eventually the resources go down to 0. 15 minute- 30 min.

Everything clean. Spy bot cool. Lava ware clean. Cookies files and history emptied. Trash can emptied. AVG-no virus. Recently upgraded Zone Alarm with a new download. Running POW for popups. AVG anti virus running. 80% resources with everything on desktop and extras running.

The problem became worse when I recently added a new LCD monitor. The techie said the LCD uses no ram; monitor not the problem.
Dialogue boxes always show: "Error @ 1076." something about "Gundl'. Also shows "Explorer exe. error".

I checked the Msconfig. Clean. Can it be that the old winodsw 98 is corrupt. Also ran msinfo32 on the IE6.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance. is there a test i can run. Any way to trouble shot? Belarc advisor ?
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I believe the problem that you're seeing is caused by a "resource leak". When you open, then close a program, it doesn't close properly but rather just keeps leaking more and more of your resources.

Fred Langa did an extensive series dealing with this problem in Windows 98 and here is a link to Part 1 of the 4-part series.

Find the other parts of the series here on this Google search page.

I hope this will help!

Dwight

Thanks again. Found most of the articles but lost the 98 Win fixes. Got up to bout #7.

Would it help for me to try to buy and reinstall W98 or maybe upgrade to a newer window. Will i lose all my 98 setting and data ?

Afraid of playing with the registry or fat 32 files. It's running 32 bits anyway.
You're the man!
I reset the system for network and it seems to be behaving better! 20 min so far.
I have bundled software startup for win 98 word program etc. Have added so much after. hate to have to reinstall all.

The odds are that the problem file is not a Windows file but rather some other "third party" program that is malfunctioning.

You need to determine what the problem file is and you do that by shutting off background applications one by one until you figure out which file is causing the systems resources to fall so quickly.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Once you find the file that is causing the problem, look at the manufacturer's site for program updates or uninstall/reinstall the program.

You could install a newer Operating System, but the main problem would not be changed if it is not a Windows file. However both Windows XP and Windows 2000 do a better job of handling resources, so the problem would probably be less acute.

Of course, your computer must be capable of running the newer more demanding OS.

Win XP upgrade advisor

Windows 2000 system requirements

Please keep in mind, the minimums listed are just that; minimums. You would be much happier with the system change if you system had more that the minimums...in most cases at least twice the minimum listed.

I hope this helps!

Dwight

Thanks again for most generous and helpful info.

The culprit is the recent update to Zonealarm free 6.0.
Thanks again, Stan

You have taught so many so much over over the years! Hope you are healthy. Fully recovered.

Paid MS $35. Took 1 1/4 for the tech to fix the mess.
She did deltree in DOS by entering menu item #6.. On cookies, history and temporary files. Then redid it in safemode becuase it looked like it was taking too long. Wasm't finished! and then chose#5 DOS menu option. Changed MSCONFIG.

First time I worked in DOS for many years.

Thought I should thank you again and share something about the complicated fix.