More news from your XP challenged FoLC... After I discovered yesterday (to my horror) that Friday's unwanted reboot had eaten part of my mirc.ini file (eg half my notify list on mIRC disappeared), I was ready to stuff the computer into its box and bury it in a very dark corner of the cellar. But I decided to try and ask my techs again. They made me replace McAfee with Norton first, and run a check to make sure it couldn't be a virus that McAfee didn't detect - it's not. And on Wednesday they're going to replace the memory chips - tech said that since the reboots only happen when I close programmes, it's unlikely to be a hardware problem. Anyway, I'll let you know if he finds anything that is likely to help those of you who get the reboots as well.
Kaethel
(not quite totally desperate yet... but darned close
)