>The first is that when i ask on the laptop the page settings for the printer i takes a century to receive the information.

USB support on Win 98 has always been iffy, this was the first version of windows that had USB support, and it wasn't built-in.


>The second is a problem with outlook. When i want to open some (word) attachments it takes also a century to open them. All the other attachments (pdf,xls,and most of the word docs...) are opening very fast.

>Somebodys has a clue or thing i can try to solve this problem ?

The only thing that comes to mind is that the documents that are taking a while to open have references to macros.