Does it happen in a clean boot situation...?...

"START button, Run, MSConfig", & turn off the Startup Group, Config.sys
& Autoexec.bat.

(Note: when you later turn them back on, all items in them will get
checked. So, note what may be unchecked first.)

If it does not happen there, then the first suspect may actually be your
virus scanner, especially if you have it set to auto-scan. Which one is
it?


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Len" wrote in message
...
| I have just encountered this problem. Windows Explorer
| hangs the entire system when I try to move, copy, delete,
| rename any files. Scandisk seems to go into a loop.
| Defrag also goes into a loop. The entire system will hang
| up if I right click an icon on my desktop. The only way
| out of the hangs is to do a power off and back on and the
| scandisk that runs because windows did not properly close
| seems to work fine as does defrag if I run it from a DOS
| prompt. I have scanned for a virus and found a file named
| winupd.exe to be infected. It was deleted but the problem
| persists. I have re-installed win98 and applied all
| maintenance for the product that I have. Any ideas, I'm
| lost.
|
| Len