Thanks for your reply Metamorpho! I think creating a swap file would be a great idea. That brings a pathetic question - How do I do it? I have to admit that even tho i have been doing a lot a formatting lately (5 times in 6 months) because of the registry failures and other crap like that I am still not famililar with swap file creation. Could you provide more details about this swap file thing if you can. Once again thanks a lot.