Thanks for offering help. I believe I have this problem
fixed. It appears that something called 'Xupiter' placed
a trojan horse on my system. I had used a freeware
package called Spybot to track down such things and it
deleted a file called 'sp.dll'. That is where my problem
began. At startup I was getting a message that sp.dll
could not be found and I believe that when the trojan
horse code was not able to complete it left Internet
Explorer corrupted. I re-installed IE and used MSCONFIG
to unflag two lines that read
'regedit -s C:\windows\sp.dll'.
I no longer get the message that 'sp.dll' cannot be found
and windows explorer seems to be OK. I did a search
on 'sp.dll' and found lots of hits addressing this
problem. My resolution came from 'www.dll-files.com'.

Thanks again


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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


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