mike thanks for your reply,i do defrag regularly,malaga is the city,i,m glad you told me about fix it,the trouble is when you buy systems,because we don,t know a lot we rely on other people for advice ,it,s not until we talk to friends who advise us better then do we realise what is and what is not good, the system restore has been giving me problems these past few days,i downloaded microsoft power point program,which came with the san antonio patterns and it said i had to load my original disc(which i don,t have)looking back i see what you mean about fixit,because if fix wizard sends files to the rubbish bin,then obviosly some of them could be important,mike i appreciate your help i,ll see how i get on about a new disc,also is the defrag scandisc etc.that is on the system better?mike