When I restart or shutdown machine stucks at "WINDOWS IS SHUTTING DOWN". I refreshed the OS but the problem is still there.

OS : Win 98 SE

give me some solutions on Win98SE.

When I restart or shutdown machine stucks at "WINDOWS IS SHUTTING DOWN".

any solution ???

Computer specifications :
Pentium IV 2.4 GHZ
OS : Win 98 SE
Windows Media Player 9

Everything was doing well. But suddenly I can only listen 16 or less than 16 kbps mp3 files smoothly and...

cannot play high bit rate mp3 files i.e. more than 96 kbps. Only 16kbps files can only be played. 96 kbps files are moving but not smoothly.
any solutions ???

Thanks to you all for your answers.

1) I am using Windows 98 SE.

2) I have enough free space in the hard drives.

3) I started to defrag in normal mode, but it ends at 4% and again starts...

defragment shows 4% and again comes back to 0% for nearly half an hour.

Scandisk runs ok.

Any solutions ???

Is there any shortcut in dos in win98 ???

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:13:25 PM, on 4/2/05
Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

Thanx to you once again.
After doing all these...... I had to reload windows, then only I could start my system. Now I don't know whether my system is cleaned or not. I have to wait and see for few...

My service engineer / network administrator charges a lot for formatting. So I wanted to learn this process to save some money. Kindly guide me to do this.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 5:10:48 PM, on 4/1/05
Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

I am using mysql 4.0 server. But in the database I can not use special characters (i.e. latin characters, root sign etc.) or can not use superscript or subscript. In the front end I am using VB. When...

I want to format my machine and load Windows 98. Windows 98 is dumped in my computer in D:/. I also have a network with other machines. Can any one guide me how to do this.

I have
OS : Windows 98...

Firstly, thanx for you response. Here are the logs.

The About:Buster Log

Scanned at: 3:40:02 PM on: 3/31/05

-- Scan 1 ---------------------------
About:Buster Version 4.0
Reference List...

Here is the HJT log.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 6:55:53 PM, on 3/30/05
Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running...

Thanx very much.

Popup has stopped and home page is not changing. I think I am now free from this adware.

here is the HJT log.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 5:17:47 PM, on...

Problem :
1. Automatic Popups
2. Home Page changes
3. SearchAssistant Uninstall (In add & remove programs)

OS : Windows 98

After scanning with Norton Antivirus, it detects a file '...

Problem : automatic adult popups.

here is the log file of HJT

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 8:30:03 PM, on 3/28/2005
Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet...