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

Or a runaway Rundll issue.

I'd look at the registry and see what's loading at startup. 12 year olds
have been known to click on the wrong thing every now and then.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>; "Thinkpad Users Group"
<thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:27 PM
Subject: 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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