Thanks guys, Surveyman- I'll print off your advice and attempt to run through all those possibilities on reinstall, however I'm not really savvy on either front so must admit to being a daunted by your advice. How would I specify the directory structure on installation? If Vue worked fine for weeks, then started crashing all the time, could that be blamed on directory structure? Where and how do I access the settings for my swap file? I will look into partitioning my harddrive, but it's a big step for a guy like me. Oh and yep, I meant 1.27Gb RAM! Manowar- How would I check for bad RAM? Many thanks for your help, Jackson