Mark writes: <<While online, either reading messages or downloading a file , my computer will lock up...completely>> Without more info, could be about 1000 possible causes. What's your experience? Which browser? Computer details? What OS? What's performance like offline? How full is your hard drive? Is problem sudden, or gradually getting worse? Do you reboot into Safe Mode? Rebooting straight back into Windows is likely to have compounded the problem, to the extent that you will may need to either restore registry and/or reinstall browser, reinstall Windows, or reformat and reinstall everything. If you could supply more details, some specific advice may be possible. Don Penlington Visit my Web pages: http://www.geocities.com/donaldpen/ Fractals, poetry, free icons and beautiful Queensland beaches. PCSOFT's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>