Mike,

Thanks, I understand what they said. I assume it's worth a try, because
otherwise I'll have to reinstall Windows and every other program and
application anyhow.

Milt



"Mike M" wrote:

Both problems you mention are due to the disc being occupied by other
functions in the background.

What on earth are you talking about? Your reply should be to the OP and
not my post.
--
Mike Maltby



Corday wrote:

Both problems you mention are due to the disc being occupied by other
functions in the background. Forget the reinstall, just try running
Scandisc in Safe Mode. Don't use a 3rd party defrag. If you have an
Intel chip, there's works better than anything else.