I'm not surprised that it doesn't make any sense, I'm not a computer guru and don't know a lot of the terminology. But, like I said, if I look at a few threads and particularly one with pics, I can't open another for awhile. If I read a news story on Yahoo, I can't open another, etc., it's just like its completely overloaded or something. The desktop has done it awhile, that's why I started using the laptop. Like I said, I blamed it on the 1000's of photos. The laptop is a NV53 gateway and it has 4gb of memory, says so on the sticker anyway. This computer was my MIL's before she passed. I reformatted and will not allow anybody else on it. Running Norton's 360, for the last couple of years, after using AVG for a long time. Really don't know what else to say, may have to reformat again, would rather not. Thanks, guys.