OT - periodic PC slowage

[Martin Howell <grizelli@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the OT post, long term lurker at his wits end.  My 2 year
old 
Dell with W98SE has developed the habit of periodically running 
unbelievably slow - mouse pointer moves at normal speed, but the machine
takes around 5 seconds to respond to a mouse click or key press. 
System 
monitor shows processor usage at 100% at these times (but then it does 
that at other times as well when the machine is working fine).  Seems
to 
be triggered by anything that uses the modem - Explorer, Netscape and 
Kazaa - and can only be fixed with the Big Red Button.

Its getting worse, and neither Dell nor that nice Mr Gates have any 
useful ideas.  I've done all the defrag/scandisc/dump all the .tmp
files/clear out all the advertising search robots/etc. and my gast is 
completely flabbered.  Any clues from the brains out there??

Thanks
Martin

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