Thanks to all for the excellent help, especially "AlmostBob".

Rick

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This may not be related to Win98 only, but I keep getting a file called: ~
on my desktop. It is about 1.46M large and when looked at in a text editor
makes no sense at all. I suspect it may be some type of marketing tracking
thing? I have run adware and spybot on my computer and have ZoneLabs with
anti-virus on.

Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it? I delete it and next
time I boot it pops back up. I am running 98SE.

Rick