You might need to takle a ball bat to it, but have you tried defraging it? Also, you might have a lot of files you don't need uding up your hard disk space.. ken barber wrote: >well mozilla and netscape are giving me the blue >screen of death. not as much as IE. judy has been >telling me that it was just this old hp. "i should >take a ball bat to it and get a new computer." the hp >never gets itsself closed at shutdown like it did when >new. for over two years now, at least, it will not >boot up without a rest of 15-20 minutes after it is >shut down. could judy be right? > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search >http://shopping.yahoo.com > > >