Have all the spyware stuff-- had to reformat a few years ago. Learned my lesson there. Have the virus, the cleaner, the everything! Ran all that. Cleaned everything out. Even restored to the system to when it was working good. Was doing good for a while, but started freezing up again today.

Now I'm on my laptop trying to figure it out. I'm seriously thinking about that burial. Can I recover data in safe mode? It was booting in safe mode earlier. Whether it does it now or not is a different story.

SQD (who is about ready to head out to the computer store- and I think this thing is 5 or so years old, if that)