Bill D -

If you're crashing because of a bad driver, you need to look for a good one. Of course for some of that ... you like to have on your machine, there probably aren't any good ones. (And I'm not bad-mouthin' ya there, because one of my current problems is finding a driver for some old stuff I want to get onto my new machine.)

Seriously though, if you can find an up to date one, it might solve the problem. It appears you know what's using the one that crashes you...

I've never "lost" a desktop layout, other than getting them moved out of place a little, although I usually just leave them sorted by name. I have resorted to putting a "prefix" character on the icon name on the desktop so that they'll sort to a better location. Then it's just a matter of right-click on the desktop and "arrange icons."

Of course the number of times I've had to use Safe-Mode is somewhere between zero and none. That's for folk who are bold enough to get themselves in serious trouble.

John