[GretchenM]

Hi Jonny, thanks as ever for your continuing prayers.

My PC is, for the moment, working okay, but the gremlins await. If I have to reboot, the programs that run in the background that are apparently hanging up the operation of the machine, almost always get tangled up and make it crash and crash and crash, or else make the PC run v e r y slowly before making it crash, with only one application being able to be open at any time. Once in a while on a reboot, the right combination of sauces, cheese, dough, and toppings come together and I can use it. It looks like it will be the second week of May or later before I can get it to the shop.

[silent_jonny]

Once in a while on a reboot, the right combination of sauces, cheese, dough, and toppings come together and I can use it.

ROFL! I know exactly what you mean.

Your PC is in my prayers too. (I've prayed for my own PC more than once :) I hope it behaves until you can have someone look at it.

[Colorado Buckeye]

Gretchen, since your PC problems involve, at least in part, programs running in background, I suggest that you install a freeware utility called Easy Cleaner. It is a registry cleaner, and yes I know that you already have one; however, Easy Cleaner also has a built in function that finds all the programs that get loaded into background during the boot process.

I'm not sure how it finds them all, but it seems to work well. You can then use a built in feature to stop any program from so being loaded.