Yeah, as they said. I have Norton Utilities, and it plays hell with Vue. I went into Start>Run>msconfig> Startup TAB, and made it a point that NOTHING Norton would load on reboot, and alot of things started going smoother. Especially Crash Guard (which Lynne Fredricks likes to call "Crash Hard"). Norton just doesn't play well with graphics apps, but most notably, Vue. You can always manually load all the Norton junk as you need it.