I've had a great experience with XP, and that is what I have consistently heard from others. I would consider a virus or spyware might be causing you trouble. But whatever it is, I don't think it's XP causing it. Hope you can figure it out. -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donna&Skip Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:41 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- IMO Win XP is a disaster!! Now whenever I try to use Search option in the Start menu to look for a file, Explorer.exe craps out, I get A "Data Execution Prevention" boxed msge that kills Explorer, disappears the tool bar, flickers the screen and then rewrites desktop, thereby moving all the icons around!! Win Support website says (oh so very briefly) to work around this (known!) problem I should "uninstall Windows 2000 Rescource kit". Nice, eh? And just how the ^&$%#% do I do that, Microsoft? I certainly can't use the search option to find it, now can I!? And then things sometimes start up on the system tray, and then sometimes they don't! Sometimes they even completely disappear! (And I'm not talking about the "hiding " icons here either). Putting stuff in the StartUp menu is ridicuously hard, and then most of the time the programs won't even start consistantly at bootup! (Such as Webwasher!) And everytime I go to start Winamp radio, WinXP tells me it can't start the thing and makes me do a 'browse' search for the software that's right there on the C drive!! Anybody here got any help for me with this stuff? Please? Because if I keep having these kinds of problems with this crappy Win XP software, I'm just gonna s**tcan the whole program and go back to my old dependable Win 98! Thanks, drummer -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/