Clarence, 3 OS's you claim to have. Are they all giving you the same trouble? From reading throughout the web, few seem to have any praise for Win Me, on the contrary it's constantly being put down. Any way, dear friend, here's a link that may be helpful in sorting out some help, whatever your flavor of OS. http://www.virtualdr.com/ Didn't you recently have someone do your PC & had system reloaded by some tech? If it ain't broke, quit fixing it! Donna had suggested reloading Windows over the present one. It's the most logical choice from my POV for it allows you to keep all your proggies and personal files, without having to reinstall the whole kit-n-caboodle.It involves renaming your ?-file to old-?-file. If you choose to do this I'm sure someone can tell you what to do or where to find info about this process. Just holler, eh? Also once you have it all sorted out, download yourself a copy of cop2.2 by PLATO. Check it out. It has saved my butt many a time as a registry backup, restore utility. Runs fron DOS & can be transported to other pc's via floppy. No need for WIN Me flavor with this one! http://www.bootdisk.com from its PRIMARY UTILITIES list Best wishes. Armando Barreiro avbsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxx You all know my thoughts on $#&^@)! ________________________________________________ PeoplePC: It's for people. And it's just smart. http://www.peoplepc.com www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi