Hey I just wanted yall's opinion on this. Im running XP Pro fully patched with an AMD processor and 512 megs of ram. sometimes ( this is just random) i get thru bootup, example: it says loading your windows personal settings then it loads my desktop background but nothing else! no taskbar,icons or anything at all... the only thing I can access is Task Manager and when i look it im running between 17-23 process whereas normally I ran about 35. Now if i press the reset button on my pc and restart then the problem goes away and I boot right up. Im clear of spyware/virus as far as I know. any ideas? thanx!