$ometime$ you've just got to "bite the bullet"...

Regards,
Comanche7

Been there, done that. That explains the caps on my front teeth...

you can find out the speed of your processor by following steps.

click on start button>setting > control panel > click on system icon.
The system icon will popup a screen with cursor highlight on general tab. On this general tab, you will see at the bottom of this screen, window tell you speed of processor and what type of window version user have.

If it hasn't been mentioned already, "Ad-Aware" and "Spybot: Search & Destroy" are both free programs designed to rid your computer of nasty so-called "spyware". Both are widely available on the 'net. I try to scan weekly, along with scanning with an anti virus software.

Another vote here for Mozilla Firefox. What a great and simple program. (Also free.)

Good luck with the computer situation...

Hit Costco yesterday, we are now the proud owners of a brand new, super whammy, more gigawhatevers than I can even understand laptop. Yipee!!!

Do you have your ETS preferences "default display mode" set to "flat" and "default view" to "collapsed"?

Try something like:

default aged threads: show all threads
default sort order: descending date
default display mode: flat
default view: collapsed
parent posts to show per page: 10
total posts to show on one page: 10

-john

"...default display mode: flat
default view: collapsed..."

Now why didn't I think of that? Thanks...