MikeL2 -

The management tools, since WinXP, have been different between the various versions. Many of the useful tools are NOT AVAILABLE in "Home Basic" (I think that was the name?) and you need the Home Premium(?) or Professional(?) or Business (?) or MultiMedia versions to have all of them. (At least this is the way I remember XP.)

I don't know whether the "click" referenced is one that was omitted from the starter version though.

Microsoft has done such a poor job of telling you what the differences are between versions, that it doesn't really do a lot of good to tell someone who offers advice what version you have, since the only way for them to know whether you have all the buttons they have is if they are running exactly the same version you have.

In the cheapest version, many tools simply aren't there, and can't be added without upgrading to a higher priced version. As you move up in price, some tools aren't installed by default, but can be added if you can figure out how to put them in. The top line (top priced) versions generally have almost everything turned on at installation.

If you can figure out what to ask, articles in Windows HELP sometimes include a link to open things that aren't where they should be (or where sane/rational people would expect them to be), and sometimes consulting the link in Help is the best way to do much of anything useful in the more basic versions.

An unlikely, but easy(?) to check, possibility when unexpected power-down is happening, is that the timeout settings, or the "what to do" settings, in Power Management have gotten changed. While I haven't seen anything like what you've described, I have seen settings change mysteriously, in several OS setups since the "green machine" notion wormed in; and almost all machines since the late Win98SE geological epoch have included automatic time-outs to conserve power.

John