Robert B. wrote... >Well if you're gonna nuke it all anyway and reinstall windows XP.... may as >well learn a little along the way. Try disabling any startup program that >doesn't look too important and see what happens. Worst case you'll f-disk >and reinstall. Best case you'll fix it and not need to. That's a good suggestion. Once I get all my data offloaded from this beast and am ready to nuke WinXP, I'll do a bit of playing first while taking notes. Thanks, Dave D. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.