Sorry, Barbara, can't help your current problem but am interested to know what programme you downloaded and tried out. -- Carol carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---- Original Message ---- From: Barbara Wilson To: Access-UK Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:19 PM Subject: [access-uk] PC getting better! > Hi All > > If anyone has been following my ramblings about a poorly computer, > then you will be glad to know I have somehow fixed some of the > problems with no need to reinstall Windows. At least none of the > problems have presented themselves today and a whole day without any > issues is a plus. I searched for the problem on Google and downloaded > a free program. I then had to pay a small charge for the registration > and after running this my shutdown and program not responding issues > seem to have disappeared. It found and fixed 1731 problems on the > hard drive! Before this however I was noticing that my CD/DVD drive > had stopped showing up in My Computer, even with a disc inserted. > This started yesterday, so has nothing to do with this latest > download and repair. Anyone any ideas why this has happened and is > there anything I can do about it? > > Barbara