ive done all these things listed below and still my running programs at the bottom right side of screen disappear when i sign into yahoo messenger till i shut down and restart my computer and anything else my mouse scrolls over looks highlighted.. any more help please..... justin you got the ie6 get the updates.at least the critical ones. d/l spybot search and destroy,update it run it. try these links. how to run m.e well verion 5 http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/36435.html free trojin scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp d/l mcafee,s stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

ok your free of spyware no viruses and no trojins. have you tried to goto add/remove and remove ie6? and choose repair? your majore problem is with not enough ram only 64 megs and its why rebooting fixes your problem the memory gets pluged in ram and shutting computer off kills power to ram and its free upon reboot to refill. and unless you get more ram you will allways have memory related problems. add anther 256 megs of ram you will find computer will run fine. low memory problems act like soft ware spyware virus type problems thats why all the tests. d/l belarc advisor to fined out what type of ram your system uses. www.belarc.com and goto crucial and look up your computer in there search listing you will be able to fine the excat ram you need have a nice day.