Win 98 (Internet Problems) HELP!!!

[ttraider]

Run Win98SE with 512 Meg of RAM.
Last week I start getting problems with Internet Explorer.
If I go to a website that has a long page and lots of graphics, it will not load completely. Some of the graphics at the end of the page would not display.
If I click on a link it will not open up another window, or if it does it will not completely display the whole page.
I have closed all the other applications and run Internet by itself and it would run a little better but I cannot open too many apps, but it never tells me I am running out of memory. I have not installed any new software in the last 6 months. I have run several different spyware problems, didn't find much spyware. It appears that win98 is not handling the memory access correctly. Itcould be a rouge program running in the background taking uip all the RAM. I have plenty od hard disk space. I have deleted all temp files and Internet temp files and cookies,etc and run defrag and the problem would not go away. Short of formatting the whole drive and re-install win98. Unfortunately I might lose a very important program if I do that. I lost the registration key and I would have to pay for a new one.
Any advice or suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks.

 

[smah]

Start with the IE Fix utility

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm

 

[ttraider]

BTW, I'm running Internet explorer 6.0 and all the updates for my win 98 are current.

 

[ttraider]

smah, Thanks for the link. I tried it and it seems to help for a short time and then it is back. It seems that Win98 cannot clear its memory cache or something. I can reboot and it would work for a few minutes.

 

[Lemon13]

get a tool like

http://www.meikel.com/en/products/freemem/

, that should help.
check ur gdi / user resources

 

[ttraider]

Lemon13, Thanks for that link.
Interesting!! After installing the freemem software, I notice that I still have plenty of RAM, (at least 280MEG) after loading a couple of programs including Internet Explorer. I went to a page that is quite full and it would not display all the graphics or links but it showed that I still have 276 MEG free and I could easily increase more RAM as needed, but the page is displayed fully and I still cannot open new apps.
Any other suggestions?