Good morning everyone.
I believe I've found my computer problem. Thank you Resty for the links, but so far I haven't needed them but will bookmark anyway.
I discovered that I had a conflict with two AV's. Wow..that is a no no. The computer came with E-Z Armor and it wanted money for the year, so I got a new AV. No..I'm not as cheap as Cardhu, but it's not fun to pay for two puters for a year and only get six months use out of both of them. I did delete EZ first, but failed to see a file still left in a folder.
But...how I found all this out is the best part. In Control Panel there is an Icon for Admin Tools. In there is a nice little thing called Event Calendar. Inside there is Applications. This will tell you everytime you have a crash and what caused it. Mine were almost all security crashes. I dumped the last file I found of EZ Armor, and so far everything looks ok.
My son just sent me a proggie for cleaning up what's left of odd files etc. Some kind of registry cleaner that he trusts me to use...lol, (I hate those things!) so I will use that as soon as he gives me permission to steal his last born if something goes wrong using it.
My fingers and legs are crossed that my puter will be ok now.
Sometimes there are little helpmates in XP that we just don't know we have, until we look hard for them. ;)
Good yob!
Congratulations Gran --- we are all going to come to you when we have trouble with our configurations -- you are the guru now.
You can charge the others but I know it will be professional courtesy for your FRIEND...