Sheepers! Help! Question: should I be thinking about a new computer? I bought my first and only 'puter September 1999. It is an IBM Aptiva, E Series 245 running Windows98. It has been used many hours every day, with few problems and no serious ones that simple solutions couldn't fix. It is now chock full of programs and files, but "system resources" says 68% free. I run ScanDisk and Defrag periodically. That most recent ScanDisk found three clusters bad. I don't like the freezes and think I get too many. Most of the time, with a freeze, nothing works except to cut the power. This morning, Windows wouldn't load, except in Safe Mode. I followed all the directions from the Help file, to no avail, until I tried restoring the Registry to the previous day's backup, and that worked. Is my computer on a downward slide, past its peak and ready for a complete crash some day soon? Is it time to get a new one? Any help would be appreciated. I know NOTHING! Sharon IBSSG