If this comes up again, can you give us the exact wording of the message that you got? If you can also tell us exactly what you were doing at the time it might help. If it's telling you the connection will shut down, it's entirely possible that even though you were "doing something" at the time, if you had been reading a news article or something, although you were doing something from your perspective, you weren't doing anything from the standpoint of the internet connection. When you view a web page, you download the page and the connection closes. It doesn't open again until you click a link, send an email, etc. One thing you can do to keep the connection alive is to set your email program to check for new mail more often. Each time it checks, that's activity and resets the time.

Thanks for all of the help! I have contacted Tech Support again. I was told that the 1GB of RAM that the Laptop came with is really not enough to run Windows Vista--even though it is industry standard to sell the PC that way. I was advised to upgrade to 2GB. I was told that Compaq would send me a shipping box and I could send the laptop for them to check over and restore it to original--But isn't that what I have already done 3 times? One problem is that there are only 2 slots and the RAM that is in there is 2-512s-so that means buying 2-1GBs. Tech support doesn't list anything larger than the 512s-so sending it in isn't an option for RAM. My second problem is that every web site I go on to find the right Memory for this PC, doesn't list the Compaq Presario C700. The sites that list the C700 don't list the NR Model-so I'm not sure what to buy. I can't use the Memory Scanner (located on some sites)-because when I try to log the laptop onto the internet I get the not responding error message way before I ever get this far. So... as soon as I can figure out what to buy I guess I'll opt to upgrade the Memory? Is this likely to fix my problem?? Any input is appreciated. Thanks again!!

In case this happens to anyone else I have ran all the normal things...virus scan, system restore, scan disc...etc etc. Finally out of frustration I just pushed the button and shut the computer off...did not do it the 'correct' way. Just pushed the power button and turned it off! Turned it back on and it is not doing it anymore. There is no rhyme or reason why it did it in the first place, much less why it stopped. Sometimes computers make me crazy!! LOL

fwiw I've run startup repair on win7 a few times. It needs to be run back to back without trying to boot into windows, or it looses count and runs the same first run repair process each time. With my laptop, when startup repair finishes and restarts the computer, then I have to push my boot from cd key quickly again or its lost that ability to count. It would tell you in the reports run once, 2x or 3x. First run is I dont remb, 30 or 40 minutes for win7. Second run is maybe just 2 minutes. Third run would be the same quick, or slighly quicker than 2nd run. And it aways says something about 'startup repair can not repair this computer automatically' I assume it says this because nothing was wrong. I just wanted my partition tables/names microsoft style after using a 3rd party tool to resize partitions.