When I came to check my e-mail today the screen was black and the mouse would not bring it to life. Wiggled the mouse and saw it did not have a light, It is a Labtec Optical. Eventually the light came on and the screen came up but I then had another message saying my system has just recovered from a serious error. This time I did send the report to Microsoft but don't have any faith in that helping anything. Then WinPatrol told me a new program was trying to start up. I checked not to let it as I was not anticipating anything like that. Oh, and when I sent the report to Microsoft a pop up said I was missing a file. It came and went so fast that I have not idea what that was about and did not get a description. I have the feeling that something dire is about to happen to my computer but I do not know what to do about it. One more thing I just remembered. Shortly after the message that my system had recovered from a serious error, I also got a message in the notification area that my firewall was turned off and I needed to click on the icon to correct it. I went to the Security Center and the firewall was on. The warning icon left. All of the scans that I did yesterday showed no infections any more. The automatic virus scan that runs at 3 a.m. showed no infections. Still something is amiss. Any ideas? And if I "go missing" you will know the computer is in the shop! Sandi --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------