I have quick question hopefully someone knows. I am running windows 98se, Atholon T-Bird 800MHz CPU, 512 MB RAM. I am on a cable modem going through a linksys router.
My Computer will lose performance % after 10 to 20 mins of running. Drops from 88% free to 59%. When I double click my computer it takes the up to 5 mins for the blank window to show my options C: D: MYDOC etc. I have now been experiencing lock ups that require a hard reset. This happens when I open up different applications. I have also had the dreaded grey box that says explorer has performed an illeagal operation and must be closed, with the options close and ignore. No matter what
I click it just comes back up and I have to reset my system.
I have a new updated anti- virus prog (AVG) ran it no virus found. I have Trojan Remover ran no trojans. BlackIce (recently updated)only detects UDP port probes when I log into hotmail (I know it is them I have neotraced them). I have run ad-aware 6.0 nothing there. used windows washer. I have everything cut off in start-up that is unneccessary.I still have the slowdown.

I decided to go through my registry and I found a few things I had removed still there so I got rid of their keys. While in there I found this.
Folder:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\uSSPESOQsu0yNqT
umyyPLBWW


contents of folder:


ab [default] [value not set]
ab 4N!HMflW "gCXdS!5C_DI1iuShfMONSpVIYd-BiNWW"
ab AAL2_NcidCDW "piOzg8uRznTneFIZrRM-IvNW"
ab AAL2_NcidC-W ""
ab bAJ_T_mEOBWW "--WW"
ab bAJbO-BjOBWW "PiMiR8X-zTiwPBZzOBWW"
ab c-4C7Fkiq4DjCDv... "pNNWW"
ab CXybMKDC "pCWW"
ab eBLH ""
ab GB4J "I2XN@vmW"
ab h8a_h1UE7YrwkG... "bq2ZfCOJSgMnCO_xX3Sj31femCWW"
ab IvC3YBWW "GIiIO_mEg-WW"
ab sP-NBWW "Als1HBcEem7W"
ab VqzSFrLCcaXW "pNWW"
ab wh7IOkvUkAUgH... "pNWW"
ab xEVI-IDW "YqCrFQrzeNKhOG!s"
ab xgMHoADW "Yi-W"

this is a strange looking key and I wondered what it is but I donot want to remove it in case it belongs to something I use.
Anyone else got this key in their machine or know what it might be.