PC freezes every five minutes for a couple of seconds

[eightarches]

After I installed McAfee virus scan and firewall my computer freezes for about 5 seconds every couple of minutes. I suspect some program is out out and looking for updates. I disabled automatic updates on the McAfee.

Is there some program that would display what program is hogging all my cpu time.

How can I turn off unwanted services that are running in the background.

Thx in advance for any help or experiences.

HP Pavilion PIII Windows 98 SE

 

[pat99872]

win 98 is a pretty unstable OS

get XP. trust me its worth it. with XP, my computer only freezes once a week

 

[Fure6]

win 98 is a pretty unstable OS

I thought that it was the second best for windows...being XP having number 1.

with XP, my computer only freezes once a week

are you serious?!? You should get it checked out man.

 

[ian]

I hate windows xp, my favourite operating system is still windows 2000
2000 was a good year!

 

[[tab]]

1995 was a great year... my first son was born, my footy team won the premiership, I'll have to go with Windows 95

 

[charly]

as i remember mc affee has some troubles with other "secure stuff".
like ZONE ALERT does'nt work with affee.

 

[nomav6]

to see what is using all of your system resources press ctrl+alt+delete and you should be able to find it from there, also not a big fan of 98 I have xp and 2000 on my machines, so you might want to look into updating your OS as long as you dont update to ME

 

[TheChef]

1995 was a great year... my first son was born, my footy team won the premiership, I'll have to go with Windows 95

Are you serious? I think 95 was one of the most unstable OSs to ever come out. Go with XP. I have it and my computer has not frozen once in a year.

Also, you might not have enough RAM to run complicated programs like McAfee.

 

[Praetor]

get XP. trust me its worth it. with XP, my computer only freezes once a week

Uh..... isnt that a bad thing?

I thought that it was the second best for windows...being XP having number 1.

WXP is quite easily argued to not be number one by a long shot. Both W2K and W2K3 are much more stable platforms.

I hate windows xp, my favourite operating system is still windows 2000
2000 was a good year!

You tried W2K3? You might like it!

I think 95 was one of the most unstable OSs to ever come out.

W95A was pretty bad but W95B and W95C werent too bad at all. As for stuff that's worse? WindowsMe and WindowsCE are up there.