Keep freezing

[miriam]

My pc keeps on freezing up on me. This started about three days ago. I have install an anti virus on my pc. Could this be the problem? Also sometimes when i am on a page the icon signal is busy without me trying to click on it.

please list your system specs

are you doing anything particular when it freezes?

[miriam]

AMD/wins 98 Se, No i'm not doing anything in particular. It freezes up just being on the forum I get a message that say illegal operation click for detail. When i click for detail it freezes

[miriam]

It just froze up on me again and i was able to get the details.
Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module msvbvm60.dll at 0187=660300 ec. What does this mean and how can i fix it?. Also when it shut down it tell me to restore my desk top which i keep on doing

i was searching around online and some think it could be an isue with spyware

i suggest download adware or spybot and scanning your computer

[miriam]

My pc already has a pop up blocker. I did a scan and nothing was found. While writing this i got the messege " this program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down" What is going on?

[Bovon]

When something like this happens to me right after installing (or updating) some application, I usually uninstall the application and see if the problem will go away. Sometimes an antivirus application is not easy to uninstall because you never really get all traces off of the machine..but, the AV software is powerful by the nature of the thing.. and they do have problems.

With Win98SE, you can also run DrWatson which comes with the Win98 1st and 2nd edition and you will get more info than the normal 'illegal operation' dialog.

Go to start -> run and type drwatson...hit OK. All you will see is an icon sitting in the taskbar near the clock etc. DrWatson is now running and will record the errors...which sometimes will tell you what caused the failure.

[miriam]

Thanks i will try that

[miriam]

I click on run type drwatson, ok, and nothing happen or open. I try it several times and nothing.

[Bovon]

Go to start -> find -> files or folders. Type drwatson in the "named box" and click 'find now'. (be sure the look in window is set to look on the C: drive..if that is where your Win98 is at).

drwatson should have installed with Windows as a default and reside in C:\Windows. It is an executable application, and will run when you did the run execution. If there was no drwatson installed, or you mis-typed it..you would have received an error.

You can go directly to the windows folder, scroll until you have the executables..look for drwatson.exe and double click it to get it to run manually..but that should not be necessary unless something is wrong with the application. It can be removed and reinstalled if need be.

LMK what happens.