system restore is the first thing i disable when i reinstall windows and there's nothing anyone can say that will make me waste 3 gigs out of a 30 gig drive and 30% slowdown of most computer functions just so i can have a safe puter. moving on... right now the bottom of the comp is hot as hell. it's a p4. and it's plugged in. i need to find a way to monitor and reduce the cpu thing. preferably find out if this thing has speedstep or not. drac (thank you all again)