Quite ironically, it took me three times to log in here! Yeah, I had trouble a couple days ago. I tried several times to log in. Finally it look like I was logged in. I wrote a response to a thread. Later on that day. Poof! My response wasn't there (no I didn't write anything racy either!)

In firefox if you click tools at the top then add/ons you will see a list of add/ons installed one of those apparently is causing a problem if your not using any add/ons then uninstall them you will see the uninstall option there. I just want to make sure your not running fiefox in safe mode all the time.

Daisey just removing programs will not make your computer run faster unless the hard drive is over filled. To see how much free space is on your hard drive click Start then click My computer. A window will appear and you will see your hard drive listed with the total size and the amount of free space. For the computer to run efficiently you need 25% or more free space. This allows you 'swap file' to operate at it's peak. A few questions. What anti virus are you using? What anti spyware programs are you using and do you keep them up to date and run them every couple of weeks? What firewall are you using? What operating system are you using? How much memory does the computer have? To check how much memory click Start, click Control Panel, click System and right near the bottom of the new window you will see how much RAM is installed. To start improving things you could download and install Ccleaner which is linked below. Run without changing any settings. This will remove all the bits and pieces left behind over time and give you more hard drive space. Then you should do a defrag. To defrag the computer click Start, click All programs, slide up and click Accessories, slide over and down to click System Tools then click Disk defragmenter. Once there click to start the defrag, you can walk away for perhaps an hour now whie it does a clean up and tidies all the files. Here is a link that might be useful: Ccleaner - slim version with no Yahoo toolbar

thanks for the suggestions. I have 1 GB RAM, 1.66 Mghz whatever it is... I spent the afternoon searching through microsoft stop errors and found hundreds of different suggestions, and tried many. I still had problems. A computer programmer suggested to me that it could be the fan, since in his experience, the blue screen is generally a "cry for help" from the computer, that it's overheating. I do spend hours with it on my lap doing my work, rather than a table. This could be why?