hi thanks for the reply....in the task manager it is not showing up again after reboot...if it was i probably wouldnt be able to get online as it would take to long and log out...in the task bar under performance i see spikes going up alomost to 100 percent thats when it freezes up...i also donot know how to select what need to start during start up or how to get there the most process now is ieplore.exe with 43624k and then i have eplorer.exe with 10644k mcproxy.exe 11688k i have 5 svhost.exe running a total of 5000k when i drag the task manager around it leaves trails and also last time it froze it said something a rundle something or other wouldnt close