You might try uninstalling Zonealarm again and re-install an older version. Sounds like you have two programs starting at the same time which is messing up vsmon.error which is ZoneAlarm main program. That happen to me once with Zonealarm and Norton. After contacting Zonelabs about it, they said that I had to change the order that things started. They sent special instruction on how to do that which I don't have anymore or remember how to do. Pc Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //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.