From: Bruce Eddy Things you can do to sort thru this. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OK I will start with your first suggestion. So You are talking about system events is that right?Never have fooled with them but I think I figured out how to clear them. The only errors in there is Dhcp on several and Service control Manager on a lot of them. Does that tell you anything? I had this problem a while back. I had the strangest fealing it was caused from an email I had not opened. It was puzzles which was attachments. The person that sennt them to me said someone in a club sent them to her. I was wondering if maybe I shouldn't have them. I deleted the email. My problem stopped. A few weeks later I had three more emails with three puzzles each on them from the same person this last time it happened.I deleted them and so far I have not been sent back to my desktop when opening,replying,forwarding or sending mail. I know that is a long shot but we shall see.ZA did warn me not to open them. I am also inclined to think it might be a cleaning program. But I haven't used anything but S&B and Easy Cleaner since this started. I have noticed in the last few weeks outlook express has ask to clean out old files and compress much more often than it ever has. I thought that might be because the puzzles was taking up so much room. Anyway do you think I should wait and see if it was the puzzles? Juanita