It's good practice to run scandisk at least once a month. That way the system can get rid of false registry entries and replace bad sectors. It's also worth while to do a defrag at least once a week. Keeping to this schedule will ensure that any problems that may occur will not be related to your hard drive. This was mentioned before but here it goes again "Always give Bryce some extra time after you have saved a file" this helps reduce any file corruptions that may occur due to the operating system closing the program before it has finished saving the file.