Re: [Thinkpad] 600X Win98SE: continual freezes -- reinstall?

The CPU 100% thing is very similar to some of the recent XP worms, and makes
me very suspicious.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:20 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] 600X Win98SE: continual freezes -- reinstall?

> Subject machine freezes several times daily, even though plenty of room
for swap file
> and plenty of RAM and GDI free. Nature of freeze is CPU usage goes to
100% and
> C-A-D brings up screen saying system is busy (which it is, doing nothing).
Screen
> repaints normally taking milliseconds take minutes and the system never
returns to
> normal.
>
> RAM all tests good.
>
> I'd welcome ideas to diagnose.
>
> In addition, if I can't fix this problem, if I want to reinstall W$#%^@,
how can I
> do it retaining the desktop and settings? I assume I'd delete a lot of
directories
> but retain some kind of configuration files.
>
> Thanks for all help. I'm still trying to get my (12-year-old) daughter's
machine
> in shape.
>
> Jeffrey Race
>
>
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