well i did reformat before i isntalled windows Xp pro sp2. so i got rid fo home sp1. then norton partition magtic 8.05 refuses to load window after i made a partition (i have no clue why) so i did a reinstall and stuff. the cd NMAy have been slipstreamed am not totally sure. not sure if that would be a factor. my pc is an eck-machine a OS:(WinXP Professional 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build #2600)) ¤ ¤ CPU:(1 CPU - AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (T-Bred), 1.79 GHz, L1: 64KB L2: 256KB ram i am running a pc3100 512 thou my board is only pc2100 btu that never gave me any problems bu searching ok i will try pretend you are looking in your folder looking for a spciefic file or folder withint it. but when you go to click on another folder to bring it up it just basically doesn't load but your pc tells you that it is working to get that folder open.