Windows 98 goes into hangover mode

[tetatdo]

When i'm using windows 98 (my main and only OS on my computer) it goes into hangover mode sometimes. I'll be using it, and it will start slowing down to the point where if i'm typing, the words will catch up me way after I type them. Or if i'm playing games it will slow down to the point where its unplayable, but after a while it will go back to normal... has anyone had this happen to them? I thought it was something in my memory, but then i unloaded everything and it still does it.


any clues?

 

[F3user]

The most common things I have seen causing that problem are active virus cans and disk defragmentation running in the background. Is there a lot of HD activity during these slow periods?

 

[tetatdo]

nope. HD's idle... and I just ran a virus check

 

[vm]

Do you have alot of space left on the HD?
Sometimes it'll do that when it doesn't have enough space for caching/temp files.

I'd suggest defragmenting.

 

[RustyNale]

How much mem you have? How big is your swapfile?

 

[tetatdo]

160M

windoze automatically sets the swap