Un-check, Un-check and small

Nope...that just made it last a little longer before it flopped.

OK...one more thing before we get the dynamite out...look in Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Advanced and see what your page file is set to at bottom.

Page file set to 384 megs

Under change, my min is at 384 with my max set to 768
availabe space 11875 megs

System managed size unchecked...
No paging file unckecked...

Sorry Lavant to be so long...assume both of us got sleep. Unless, you have 512 MB or more of ram (and I'm guessing you don't) that page file allowance is too small (even with 512 that's cutting it close). Also, if you have more then one drive, that is the total size for all drives. Since the System Managed Size is un-checked, it means it has been changed either by you or an Optimization proggie. The min setting is not the problem, but the max is. Leave it in custom setting and set initial size to one and a half your installed ram and make the max twice that amount. Do not set your minimum allowed any lower then 2 MB. The system won't use any more then it needs, so for testing purposes don't worry about the max setting as being too high...it doesn't matter.

You can run a machine on low page file amounts, even if you have a minimal amount of ram installed. Ram intensive proggies (like imaging) will hit your ram (virtual and actual) hard. When it eats all available ram it simply uses the page file (your disk will start thrashing about)...however when you run out of that, the computer will re-boot to clear the ram.

*sighs*

Thanks for all that you tried in helping me Gary

but...I give up...I will have to resort to using the classic viewing in SDC instead of using Thumbs.

Sorry it didn't work, Lavant. I love a mystery, but only if it's solved. Make sure you get that new computer on the Xmas list