Dave, Now I can see these together.. I have CTFMON.exe running, which I understand handles handwriting/voice recognition, and can be stopped, so don't worry about that one. Your PSP is using a lot more memory. I am using ver 7.00 with just the screen grab primed. Looks like you have a tablet driver (tablet.exe) and internet explorer running (iexplore.exe). You have qttask.exe (is that perhaps quicktime?). And some others which I can't guess at. Also I see you have XP interface active whereas I have my system set with all XP features turned off. The interface may be what is making the difference in P5 reliability? Cheers Ian