I'm trying to get a five-year old Dell Inspiron 7000 that has never had regular maintenance and has been slowing down to start running smoothly again. Scandisk keeps restarting -- I think because the disk changes in the middle of the scan. It is not connected to the internet, and Scandisk is the only thing on the taskbar. Might there be a worm at work? The computer would only boot in safe mode until I uninstalled Norton Antivirus (I plan to reinstall it before getting back on the internet). Anyone want to tell me how to get hidden processes to stop in Windows 98?

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