Back to Rabbi-Sol's problem

If the repair man was able to do a full scan in SAFE mode, does this not point to a software problem rather than hardware? Otherwise it would freeze in Safe mode as well?

I have an OLD machine (still on WIN95) which freezes in a similar way, but ONLY when running Windows, and usually only when working in WORD or Excel. It will run quite happily in MSDOS without freezing, so again, it seems to be some sort of software problem. Tried reinstalling Windows, no change.

(In case you ask, I still need the machine to run some 'obsolete' software for which I no longer have the install or setup code.)