If it's of any help....had same problems. Was running Win98SE with 512 Ram,and 1ghz.prcessor.Bad man from moving company killed my little baby. Just purchased a new machine running WinXP with only 256 Ram...no problems(even Photoshop and Painter7,both memory hogs work great).Been told by sevral sources that Win9x(95 98 Me),just don't handel dishing out the memory very well.I'm running rings around my old machine with half the Ram, so I think they were right.