Oh boy, did I not need to open this thread. Sunday, my own computer started to play up, freezing whenever I opened My Documents. My McAfee software couldn't find any problems, and every time I restarted, more had gone wrong. I had to make a new Documents folder, redirect the icon, open up a tiny Explorer window and copy folders to the new one, use Find for each file type and so on, until nothing was left but the offending items, then delete the old file and empty Recycle bin. Monday, my work computer started to crash, and eventually decided it had no hard disk. I was working till 7.15 trying to salvage it. This morning I rang support, and the thing started up...so, following instructions, I ran scandisk in DOS, and then in Windows, which kept restarting. Gave up in the end, before getting to defrag - its definitely getting full, and spent time ferrying files onto floppies instead. Its given up again, so I'm home. I seem to spend my time now doing the dead parrot sketch to tech support.....

Penny