Hi, I am a newbie, and I think I asked this question before. I do appreciate your help again.
I am running:
Win 98
AMD 333 mhz
256 meg ram
4 gig hard drive
AT&T cable modem & service
I have been noticing is that when I return to the computer in the mornings, I noticed that the computer is extremely slow, the cursor would freeze for about 1 minute then move again. The cable modem's activity lights are blinking at a high speed and the computer's hard drive light is also blinking. I check my ram booster status and it says the CPU is 100% usage and I am not running anything. I cannot even ctrl/alt/del the system for about 2-3 minutes.
My question is, could someone be trying to tap/hack into my computer, or is the computer just too old and can't keep up with the cable modem inputs? Or what's is going on?
What I finally restart the computer, everything is back to normal.
I run McAfee, scandisk & disk defrag every 2-3 days, no errors or viruses, delete temp files daily, and I still have 2 gig free space on the hard drive.
I also noticed that the computer stalls a lot when running yahoo.com because of all of the movie trailers.
Thanks for all of your help.
Steven
This computer stuff has got me very confused.
I am running:
Win 98
AMD 333 mhz
256 meg ram
4 gig hard drive
AT&T cable modem & service
I have been noticing is that when I return to the computer in the mornings, I noticed that the computer is extremely slow, the cursor would freeze for about 1 minute then move again. The cable modem's activity lights are blinking at a high speed and the computer's hard drive light is also blinking. I check my ram booster status and it says the CPU is 100% usage and I am not running anything. I cannot even ctrl/alt/del the system for about 2-3 minutes.
My question is, could someone be trying to tap/hack into my computer, or is the computer just too old and can't keep up with the cable modem inputs? Or what's is going on?
What I finally restart the computer, everything is back to normal.
I run McAfee, scandisk & disk defrag every 2-3 days, no errors or viruses, delete temp files daily, and I still have 2 gig free space on the hard drive.
I also noticed that the computer stalls a lot when running yahoo.com because of all of the movie trailers.
Thanks for all of your help.
Steven
This computer stuff has got me very confused.