I am curious if anyone else is recording DVD's in real time through a TV tuner card and having succsess with it. I could try a restore and recovery but I'm on a dial up modem and my updates would take forever. The PC is only 4 months old and has not had that much use. I have not installed any fancy programs and nothing else is running in task manager when this thing freezes. I will say this, if this is all the better MS can do with computer hard drive recorder software they should scrap it and start over. I am going to call Gateway in the morning and see what they have to say. I'm not a very happy camper, this should not be that tough, seems like what I'm trying to do is a pretty basic function.