Al -

It's a little tough to get re-synched to thinking in old hard drive sizes, but your 1.8 GB free is not really very generous, and my recollection is that Win98 can use a naximum of 10% of the free space for temp files. That gives you a potential 180 MB, which is more than Win98 is likely to need or use; but there's the additional requirement that all of the temp space must be in a single contiguous space on the drive, so if the free space is split between several blank areas, the available temp space could be much less.

[For context I downloaded one document (of 3 that I "need") that was just over 200 MB yesterday. Lots of stuff stopped working before I got done, and until I did a lot of temp cleanup. I have over 30 GB free on my system drive and 100 GB on the drive where I was putting the downlad - WinXP - and it still "choked" some.]

Sometimes a repeat of defrag will "compact the free space" a bit more, and reassigning the temp space limits might get Win98 to look for a large contiguous space to put it in. It's been too long since I've messed with Win98 to remember what all can be accomplished or how to suggest doing it. We do have some with remaining skills with Win98, and I'll defer to them for details.

I don't know what kind of tech support your email provider (yahoo)offers; but contacting them might be your most useful option, if you can't find something more obvious on your own and haven't checked in with them already.

John