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chaps, I was busily going through all the items in start up, disabling one by one to see which one was interacting with AVAST, i’m still plugging away at it as each one requires 2 reboots to test, and it’s not always reproduceable. Sometimes (about 1 in 10) it will shutdown/restart successfully
To answers some of the questions about this.
It’s the personal or free editiion of AVAST, pardon me if I got the nomenclture muddled, not Windows 98 SE. The version is the one designed for an install from scratch…so it says in the startup.
The windows 98SE is a legit copy, but it’s standalone install, not a restore disk from Dell…Lord only knows where that is, but the computer came without it.
The disk was FDisked and formatted before I installed Win98SE
It seems that the problem is caused by some interaction between AVAST and one of the other applications which load in the startup.
Thanks to all of you for your response and effort in trying to help me out. Windows98 seems a bit like Voodoo sometimes.