Hi,

Try disabline Wndows Messenger from loading at boot. Start/run msconfig =
and go to the services tab, locate messenger and uncheck it. See if that =
helps.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - =
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone - =
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Joe Mama" wrote in message =
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I've started getting this error message--Instruction=20
at "0x68896e7c" referenced memory at "0x01650424". The=20
memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate=20
program. Since I've started getting this my boot time has=20
increased 10x. Anybody got any suggestions? I can't find=20
anything in the MS knowledge base.