Hanging problem

[Edday]

Whenever I click on the back button or about any button my mouse hangs and it takes 5 to 10 second for the page or the pop up menu to come up. What's the solution? It used to pop right up .The only thing I have running in the task bar is Norton's AV .Processor is showing 1725MHz temp is 48c Thanks

Mobo Asus A7v8X-X
40 gig WD HD
2 sticks 256mb DDR Kingston
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ processor
7000 Radeon graphics
Liteon 52x24x52 rewriter
500 watt PS
Windows 98se

[Force Flow]

How much stuff do you have running in the background? 98SE doesn't handle multitasking too well.

With the specs on your system, I'd say you'd get better performance with win2000.

[Edday]

I have thought about getting win 2000 but then again some refer win me as win 2000 . Please clarify . I only have seen win 2000 pro and win 2000 server.

[mrdstr]

theres win2k only pro, server, advanced server and datacenter server. no "win2k home" like winxp.

i think force_flow means win2k pro.

[mrdstr]

btw i use win2k pro too! i like it

[Edday]

That clears that up. Thanks

[GaryRouth]

. . . Just in case it might be a delinquent mouse driver:
. . . you can also try removing your mouse from Device Manager in Safe Mode - & while in Safe Mode go in Add/Remove to remove any third-party MouseWare type software. Let Windows find and reinstall the mouse on reboot.
I prefer the drivers built into Win98se to third-party drivers. If you need extra functionality provided by the manufacturer's drivers, see if the uninstall/reinstall restores their behavior to acceptable.

I'd probably try an over-the-top [http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=70846] before I'd spring money for a new OS. If you already own an unused disk of Win2k/XP, that would match the system in your specs better than Win98 (better performance all-around, like force-flow mentions - but it's $100 to $170 USD difference if you haven't got a disk already)
. . . Gary

[p.s. - might try a different mouse, too.]