Sorry, I missed your post until now. I wouldn't have been any help anyway. The program someone suggested in the beginning of the
thread CCleaner is a great program to have and to use. I've used it for years. You can go to options in it and tell it what cookies to keep and which to pitch (which is great for Vista because they hid the da*n cookies folder)
Think
Zep is gonna get a lot of messages from all of us when our 'puters are on the fritz.
Taz, your's problem sounds like a RAM problem. Try enabling more Virtual Memory... to do that just go to the start menu, click on help and support, enter "virtual memory", when the topics come up the 4th one down "change size of virtual memory", pick that one and then just follow the directions and increase the size.