Windows crashes could result from a number of things. You'd have to figure out more of the nature of the crash to determine it's source. I know I was one who suffered frequently from Windows 2000 crashes. The problem was MANY things going wrong all at the same time and it was a painstaking process trying to figure out the causes. I had a video card that was about to die, which caused strange Windows behaviour and frequent rebooting for no reason. I also had a hard drive removeable drawer that didn't connect to the computer properly and that caused crash after crash (to solve that problem we just installed a new drawer). Then there was the registry problem. Somehow the registry became corrupt and Windows 2000 was no longer able to load. We never could solve that problem, despite the fact that we backed up the registry frequently. Our problem was that we needed to get into Windows in order to restore the backed up registry, but we could not get into Windows in order to do that. So much for backing up the registry. To make a long story short, we ended up installing Windows on a new hard drive and copying over files from the old "unbootable" hard drive. It took a few days to reconfigure Windows again but that was the only solution we could think of regarding the corrupt registry problem. Probably none of this relates to the problem you have. In your case, find out exactly when and how the computer crashes first. Then go from there. Susan ------Original Message------ I seem to remember some messages posted in the past regarding Windows 2000 crashing or crashing often and someone related what the problem was and how it could be remedied. Did I dream this or am I remembering reality? If it really did happen (get posted) would someone please send me the info again. Deb Pf Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.