Krakadarr, Well no wonder you have to rebbot and reinstall on your OC so much. You were ignorant enough to buy a Compaq. Compaq is a total peice of garbage. Any computer tech will tell you that. My college uses compaq and the computer team was pissed when the college bought them because the techs told the college that they were junk. But to the college they were cheap. Never by a brand name. Build your own. I am a PC user(win98). And yes no and then I crash and have to reboot but it is extremely rare that I need to reinstall software. Infact I haven't none that in the two years I've owned my PC. I chose that parts and had a small shop assemle it. Next time I will actually assemble it myself since I realized how simple it is to do so. And BTW its actually a known fact that statistically, MACs crash no less or more than PC's. Of course this will vary from person to person but thats what the ststs say. The main reason for Windows crashing is because it uses both 16-bit and 32-bit files and they sometimes conflict with each other. The othher reason is the quality of the board architecture. Such as Compaqs. Of wich, for Compaq is very low. JanP