First I am using a dial-up modem. When I watch a video on MSNBC after the video is done playing and I "x" out of their video page, my computer hard freezes. After a minute or so I get the blue screen of death, it says SYSTEM BUSY WAITING FOR A PROGRAM TO CLOSE OR YOUR COMPUTER HAS BECOME UNSTABLE. Ultimately I have to manually shut it down and turn it back on again. SCAN DISK sometimes starts, but most of the time it does not start after rebooting. Could it be I just can't watch online videos with a slow connection? Or is it something else?

ta21, a couple of thoughts spring to mind. First has to do with connection. Videos are best on brodband. Dial up is SLOOW and requires a lot of buffering, you may be fighting that and the only way I know of to improve that particular problem is to switch. Next thing is a characteristic ME problem. As released, it didn't always release memory properly which sometimes caused problems. Solution was to use a seperate memory manager. Take a look at 'Trev's Tweaks ...' @: http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html HTH. Ed in Texas.

I wish it was that easy. Memory releasing is not the problem. I get two error messages: FSINFO sector and wmsdknsd.xml I can play the videos fine on the msnbc video website. It is after I close the website that my troubles begin. System freezes and tells me it is waiting for a program to close?? I do NOT have any .xml programs on my computer, so don't know what the the second error message is at all. Very frustrating, but you are right, I should get a faster connection if I want to view streaming video.

I have the identical problem that you have, after viewing any video on msnbc, my computer hangs, get same system busy warning etc. Different from you however is that I have a very fast cable modem connection, but still have this problem. It is an aspi problem of some sort. Any help you could share would be appreciated!