Ok, try and run scandisk and then defragment, in that order, to see if that makes any difference. Make sure your screensaver is disabled when you do that. This will sort of put things in order on your computer. If nothing changes, then hit cntrl,alt,del, when you first boot up and see all the programs that are running and eliminate one at a time, except explorer and sys tray, and you will be troubleshooting each program to see if that one is causing it. If this doesn't help at all then you could have a hardware problem! Hope this helps, Joseph Rydzy > Windows 98 is operating system, and 99% of the time it happens when I am on > the internet. Everything just freezes, control, alt and del, don't workm > nothing works, I have to completely shut down. "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode