stability of Win98 seems to depend on a lot of things....mine is on a lot, and it has steadily gone downhill as I have installed new things...it seems to have long pauses in the boot process now, and shut-down issues. I suspect memory settings and too many things competing for user resources is dragging me down...I have found a little memory recovery program which seems to help..

under system utilities is MaxMem It has various settings to help fight the loss.

I may just try re-installing Windows soon...perhaps that will get my PalTalk working...hmmmmm?