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All good questions. I would like to add, how many programs are in the startup and is regular maintainance done such as chkdsk, defrag and registry cleaning?

Sometimes an hour can feel like 5 min and 5 min like an hour. Is the 30 min actually 30 min? I ran WB with 98 and 64mb of ram and had no trouble. I however had to sacrifice some of the startup programs that were not necessary. Been awhile since I had 98 so going by memory, type msconfig in the run and in the startup tab uncheck all that is not needed for startup and load them manually when you want to use them. Example MSN messenger, AOL messenger, Winamp etc.. You should also consider adding another stick of RAM. Check your system to see the max it will take. WB works well with Windows 98 and you should not have any trouble with the program if it is not stepped on by other programs loading at the same time.

Sounds like something is blocking WB, and only when the block times out is it continuing. Just a hunch, try temporarily disabling any firewall or virus checking software - sometimes they have hidden windows that can cause this.

Hey thanks for all the suggestions but sadly, none of em worked. I got rid of pretty much all startup programs that I didn't need and virus checking softwares but nothing worked. Do you have any other suggestions? I would really appreciate them. Thanks.

hurray!

My virus checker doesn't mind WB, so not all of them cause problems.

The school I went to had a free virus scan on their PCs and it made everything run slow. I never had trouble using Norton's virus and would recommend not going w/o protection for one reason, Virus software protects against virus ACTIVITY which a user can do w/o having a virus. Macros are as dangerous as viruses and no virus scans for them. Are your macros enabled?