I have a HP Machine (6751), standard as is out of the box, I added 256 Mb RAM and that is all I have done to the machine. I have two USB devices, am running Norton System works and that is it. My machine does the following BLUE SCREEN at least 3 - 4 times a day JUST RESTARTS GOES INTO DEEP FREEZE - Have to unplug power from PC, replug, then switch on to get it started again. Will just lose dial up connection at regualr intervals Seems to take forever to switch between some applications, ie: Word, Excel, Access etc In short ME is driving me nuts, is it just me or is this without a doubt one of the worlds worst OS ever written ? Paul

How much total ram do you have now?

I have 318 MB in total, another amazing thing is that out of that memory I have only 33 Mb free currently, I am only running, Outlook, 2x Explorer and my dial up as well as some bacground USB stuff. Is thing a memory hog? Paul

Well,gotta go to work,someone will come along with some help.By the way,ME works fine for me.

This post should help: (the first link is SMUOD’s nice-looking HMTL version with hyperlinks, the second is the forum post with additional comments and replies) http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/24159.html Please post back or e-mail how you get on {:o)

First thing to do is Join The Fight! Then follow the advice in trevs links :).

Er. Don't unplug your PC when you 'deep freeze'. You run the risk of sending a shock to your mobo. Then you'd really be in the crap. Just hold your power button down for up to 10 seconds and your PC should shut down itself.