Wow, you most certainly know what you are doing don't you?? Thanks for all that great information.

Let me tell you what happened at Radio Shack on the 4th of July.

Alan and I went to Kings Plaza Mall to see Taking of Pelham 123.

We then took a walk to Radio Shack to look at Laptops.

WELL!! I never was so blown away at what they put into a laptop.

325 gigs of hard drive. 4 gigs of memory. Webcam's etc.

And they were on sale for $700 or so. They had less expensive ones also.

So I said to the guy "Would you please show me Vista".

He did, and there I was ...typing a document in Wordpad, and using the touch pad thingee and learning where all the USB ports were, and how to use Vista.

BOY WAS I GLAD TO GET THAT LESSON.

Then the guy takes me over to this laptop and it had FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE. My friend's husband and one of those things also and I told the guy.

And he said:

"Want to really be impressed?? watch this:

AND HE TAKES HIS THUMB AND MOVES IT ALONG THE SCREEN AND SAYS

"SEE!!! NO MORE PASSWORDS, IT JUST NEEDS YOUR THUMB PRINT".

I was ready to buy it right there and then but I knew I had to be cautious, so I thanked the guy, and went home with Alan (still thinking of thumbprints".

I then went home and knew I had to clean the cache in my computer.

How did I know I had to clean the cache?? Because I had told the guy at Radio Shack '"When I boot up my computer and I try to go online, it takes AT LEAST 4 MINUTES FOR FIREFOX TO LOAD UP".

I know it's not supposed to take 4 minutes, and the guy said "Oh, you have to clean your cache". I said "no, my husband always does it". Alan looks at me and said "I thought you were doing it'.

So it seems that NO ONE HAS BEEN CLEANING ANY CACHES IN THIS HOUSE.

So I went up to Tools, and clear private data and it took forever but I cleaned the cache.

I also went to google and typed in "How to clean the cache in Windows XP"

Well it seems that there is more than just doing the private data thing.

You go to START , and Run, and type some stuff in (I did all this, and followed the directions, but it wouldn't work'.

So what else can I do to get this computer to go online faster.

right now if I just go and sit on the computer and press the Firefox Icon, it takes 45 seconds. (a big step up from 4 minutes), but honestly, isn't it supposed to GO ON RIGHT AWAY??

Thanks to all of you.

Melody