Thats a semi tuff one without knowing what you have for memory and processor and how big these files are... In general: Might want to Right click MyComputer, choose Properties. Choose the Advanced tab on top. Choose the Settings button under Performance. Choose the Advanced tab on the top. Look down at Virtual Memory and read that and you can click the settings a look at that. Many people with 1gb or under memory will set virtual memory to 1.5x actual physical installed memory. On both the initial size & the maximum size. That may stop windows from resizing it. If there's a noticable slowdown doing normal computer usage then you might want to read up some after setting it back to let windows handle it. Photo's and printing handling do use a lot of bytes. Perhaps you might consider adding additional memory to your computer if you frequently on a regular basis have this problem.

I thought I had upgraded to IE7 at one point. Yahoo wants me to upgrade to IE8, but after reading about it here, I was reluctant to do so. I did go to windows updates last week to see if there were any I needed to do, but after scanning it said there were none. How do I get IE 7?

You can use the method in the link below. If you are nervous about editing the registry then read the last 2 lines for an alternate choice. Here is a link that might be useful: Clear Virtual Memory

Hard drive is less than 1 year old. Heat is not an issue , the side of the case is off and my house is air conditioned set at 74 degrees. Tower is cleaned out no dust bunnies to see at all. Case was throughly cleaned out when son was here in Sept. due to hurricane evacuation from FL. KeysThis is what Belarc had to say about hard drives: 400.08 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 385.21 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H54L [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] Generic- Multi-Card USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2 ST3320620AS [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 1 ST380815AS [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 6QZ3A62Y, rev 3.AAD, SMART Status: Healthy