I recently bought and installed Norton System Works Professional Edition on my Gateway AMD Athlon 750 Mghz computer with Windows 98SE OS, 128 MB Ram. I have been VERY pleased with Norton Anti-Virus and Cleansweep for the last few years, but have to learn about Utilities, Ghost, etc. (I did NOT install Goback as I have had problems with that in the past). I am quite concerned at what this has done to my system resources, 91% on bootup before installation of NSW, 82% now. When I open word processing and other programs my resources drop as low as 50%. I had downloaded the program End-it-All before installing NSW. When I check what is running in the background using End-it-All there are a lot of programs running in the background that DO NOT show in the Startup - (run, msconfig, startup where you can check and uncheck what you want running). For instance, for some reason MS Messenger is shown as running in End-it-all, but it is unchecked in Startup. I know it IS running, because it is annoying me. This has me puzzled. I thought IF something was running it would be in the Startup and I could uncheck it. Can someone explain? TIA Barbara Allen The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml