Thanks, again, John! I did the whole enchilada...saw the report as it was "thrashing" (I like that term!) I saw a lot of stuff being fixed, etc. I have now reinstalled everything, again. I still get a slow flashlight thingie with My Computer, but it does all come up.

I have also just plugged in a new external harddrive for backup. Do those things come set to automatically copy everything? I had barely plugged it in when it started up a new version of WinMediaPlayer and began playing all of my music files which were on my C drive. Then, when I went to My Computer and looked at the external drive, it showed everything copied! I am amazed. One of the reasons I had not done this is because I thought I was going to have to go through and tell it every file I wanted copied to it, as I have done to CDs. Amazing.

Thanks, again. Come this summer, I am due for a new PC. This time it's going to be a Dell.

kat