Wren, do you have HP 64bit? I don't know what that is either but I think it has to do with lots of memory... Thats what I have and Icehouse said my computer is 'quirky'..it runs like its half dead sometimes and then gets happy and frisky if its cleaned up right. Be sure you do your updates as well, it likes those too.

Mine needs to be reformatted and I have cheesy dial-up so yours should do even better if you make it happy.

Its all a mystery..
judi