Ok, ok, "If you guys say so!" (regarding keeping hidden files hidden) I was just thinking that I might have some hidden files that belong to nothing on my pc due to delete/uninstall's and was hoping I could have gotten rid of those files. Here's my sob story: I went to install a program last night. Well, duh, it filled my pc up so that I had 1/2 a gig left. Before the install, I had just over a gig, 1.1 something or other. Well, I had to uninstall it in safe mode as I just could NOT boot up. When I finally could boot up, the uninstall had me at 800 something, not over a gig. Hmmm??? <not fair!> So, I've deleted a few misc. things to get me back up to over a gig free. I have a 10 gig hard drive, running Windows 98. Yes, I keep temp. internet files gone, my recycle bin gets emptied often, and do a scan disk and defrag about twice a week lately too. Ok, now to today, I've had to cold boot a zillion times, my explorer keeps 'not responding'.... and it's been quite frustrating. Everything was at least working pretty well until last night <for the time being at least> and now I do WELL if I can boot and not have to boot a few more times to get things to actually work without locking me up from the get-go. <Side point: it sure seems like I have a bunch of stuff that has been added to my windows folder that I have no idea if I can delete or not. So they are sitting there> Oh, another question.... when I go to windows explorer and check some directories, it might have something I've not heard of, and when I click on it, there's not much in it and no exe files. I DID delete a few of those just now, but did that AFTER all this other stuff so I know it's not the cause of anything. And, if a folder just has a cab file in it, can I delete that safely? <Believe me, I'm not delete happy by nature like SOME people. I'm a packrat, and that includes my pc!> Anyway, any suggestions welcome. Sigh. Sincerely, G.R. Hanson Arkansas USA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/2002