but I keep my time correct using Dimension 4, a nice piece of software that synchronizes my puter's clock with atomic clocks on the Internet. Perhaps that would help...
howardy2k, Check your Task Manager when things bog down. You can order the processes by CPU and memory usage. This will usually pinpoint the culprit. --opm8
Does the disk begin to "grind" like crazy? It is hard to say...what applications do you have running? Try shutting down one application at a time, and notice if that helps after each app. If that gets the computer responsive again, you may have an app with a memory or resource leak. nitro