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Have you tried to restore your registry??

Bootup,press F8 until a menu comes on,then select option 5 (COMMAND PROMPT) and when your at the C prompt type this in:

scanreg/restore

A list of saved entries will come up,try and pick 1 before you made these changes (added those things) .. When you reboot,things should work fine for you

I also have 98 and i love it!!!!!

98 all the way!!

Good luck!

Thanks for the welcome!

OMG, lol, what is boot up?

When you turn on your computer

Try this ,open internet explorer ,go to tools/internet options/advanced ,in the browsing section make sure that,disable script debugging[internet explorer ] and disable script debugging[other] are checked off ,they should be the 4th and 5th in the list .

Thats thats a good suggestion also mate

more likely, a virus has modified the folder.htt file. You can use the Windows 98 CD to extract the file and place the extracted file in C:\Windows\Web.

First off, delete the file folder.htt from C:\Windows\web.
next, pop your Win98 CD in the drive. Click Start>run, type sfc and click OK.

In the SFC window, click the second option (Extract a specific file). Type the file to be extracted as folder.htt, the restore from path to D:\Win98 (where D: is your CD ROM drive letter. modify this appropriately) and set the "extract file to" box to C:\Windows\web. Then click extract. This will extract the original folder.htt file. and you should have no problems. Just to be sure, run a full virus scan followed by a spyware scan.