help!!

[cfranzen]

I was trying to reply to the previous thread but apparently started a new one. All this is new to me. Compared to Vinny(prior thread) I am a true novice and have no idea what I am doing.

I am writing from my work laptop as my home computer appears to be dead.

My initial symptoms sound alot like that of Vinny's but now I keep getting messages about shortcuts that are not there and have lost all functionality on my 6 year old gateway running windows 98.

At start up I keep getting messages that I am missings short cuts. One of the files mentioned is morze5.exe. I have found some info on google etc but most of it is greek. What I do know is that I am able to close many if not all of the popups indicating the shortcut is missing but then my cpu eventually freezes or performs an "illegal" operation and stops completely. I am unable to access the internet from my pc and cannot access my start menu. I have no functionallity.

Any suggestions?