ok, last night i went into the virtual memory it has a thing for 1428 and i put 700 on both, it had 14 something on both. i don't know how to figure what the physical memeory is, it is a laptop, i got it last year in september whem they had those student packages. its a hp student. pavillion entertainment pc dv6000. now i had to take my vista hardrive out and put my hubs xp hardrive in. his is..well. i'm not really sure. i know its good. LOL his screen went out. so i was glad that his hard drive was interchangable!! LOL i keep it proped up so the fan will have better air flow. at least in my mind it does! LOL i've gone as far as to open the whole darned thing, and leave all the screws out so it'll get good airflow. i do not like hp. they give me a hard time. errrr..... please help me. ~Medo p.s. no dust inside. checked that tooo. :')

Zep, I finally had some time this morning... so I downloaded HijackThis and followed your instructions to the letter. Here's the uninstall list. Now, my husband and I took a look at it and he said "if it's just installed and not running then it's not a problem". 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Zep - I have 3 devices in my network list: 1) 1394 net adapter 2)intel 82566mm gigabit network connection (this one I was able to get an updated driver - but on my network connections, it still shows as local area connection - "network cable unplugged,fire..." and I'm not able to click that and get the rest of the sentence. if I click it it just gives me the name of the adapter. 3) intel wireless wifi link 4965AGN The first and third ones say they are connected and firewalled. I believe that this last wireless 4965AGN is the one that has problems and gets repaired. I could be wrong about that. The LAN one I think has always been unconnected/unplugged. I don't know what that's for or if I need it. Is that my wired internet connection? Thanks. Lynn. PS - if I go through network devices and select update drivers, it only offered updated drivers for the intel 82566mm gigabit network connection. Is there any point in googling for updated driver if this route indicate no new drives exist?

I think some of you guys missed the question - OP is ripping audio book CDs and experiences long rip times with SOME disks. OP, I've ripped a lot of CDs (large music collection) and have encountered this from time to time. You're right, sometimes it's because of scratches. Sometimes it's because a PC has limited memory and prior actions in the current on/off session have used too much of the limited space. Sometimes, the ripping software just doesn't like the CD. Sometimes, nothing seems to work. My suggestion is to turn your PC off, turn it on again, and try using a different program to rip the disk that seems stalled. Try Windows Media player. If no better, download and try Media Monkey for the rip. If no better, then I'd guess it's either a difficult disk or a drive problem.