I just thought of that particular PC forum is a new Zealand one, its great for me being so close but because of our differant time zones you may have to wait a little bit for an answer, but there are plenty of others around if you need help straight away.

I think thats an excellent suggestion Shirley,
and whilst your there [ press start / then click " My Computor " then right click on C [local drive] go down to properties then left click Properties and then click tools, just on top of the defrag option you will see " error checking", i go for both options - Automaticly fix file system errors & scan for attempt recovery of bad sectors, i normally do it about every month or so.

People who are interested in maintaining their XP systems, microsoft has a good guide, as below.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...n/default.mspx