This letter is not meant as a criticism for anyone, just as a overview of computer freezes for the less computer savvy users that may read this. There are several reasons for a computer to freeze up, or appear to. Any hardware/software problems, including mouse shorts, cards not seated properly, software conflicts, old or crimped wires etc. Electricity flucuations in the area (UPS's help fix this). Not clearing out temp files can cause the system to slow looking for prior versions in the cache or hang when it runs out of working space. Java applets and/or animated cursors and gifs, not necessarily on the site you are on, but sometime during your session. (This is a recognized Windows bug, but Microsoft claims it can't do anything about it - part of allowing multiple windows up and/or history). I try to use minimum amount of graphics on my sites. Large pages using cold fusion or Java. Again, nature of the beast. Any large data pages, depending on your system. WebTV is especially prone to this. Because, I limit page size on the sites I am webmaster for to less than 200K, preferably less than 175. Large search results. A lot of the search results have to be held in memory, and so it uses a lot of memory. I suspect that is why the original limit on Rootsweb message board searches was 1000 as an attempt to not overload the system. There are ways to prevent the problems from happening. If anyone wants a list of these steps, please feel free to contact me privately. No need to clog up the list. Also feel free to forward this to any mail list or person you think it might help. Vicki Hall Titus CC/Webmaster for Broome Co. and Cortland Co. NYGenWeb sites On Sunday, July 15, 2001 3:10 AM, JYoung6180@aol.com [SMTP:JYoung6180@aol.com] wrote: > In a message dated 7/14/01 11:53:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > joanbest1@earthlink.net writes: > > > As you can see, the freeze up problems are increasing. This is a > > cumulative problem. >