this is a rather complicated problem both for me to convey it in an understandable manner and the problem itself. a while back my bro and i built my computer. a nice machine with a 40gigs hd, 512megs of ram, a p3 866mhz, abit motherboard with dual processor slots, soundblaster live value card, voodoo5 pci video card, 16x dvd-rom, 8x20 cdr, and a 17in flat panel monitor. the machine (alon with our other two comps) is running win2k on a network. the machine my parents use has a linksys router that makes the network. the problem i am about to describe does not happen with any of the other comps at my house.. just mine. my computer, as good as it may seem, is sssllooww. it literally takes 10min to restart. for those of you familiar with win2k after the login screen my comp just sits there, you can move the mouse and all but it looks as if it is doing nothing. after bout 10min my desktop and its icons appear. wierd. my bro (who is fairly techno-savvy) said that it was something about win2k and the router arguing with each other.. i don't know if anyone can build upon this. also, many of the day to day operations are just ssllow to execute. say, for instance, i go to a site that was a lot of pop ups. if i wish to get rid of them quickly i right click them in the start menu and choose 'close'. but after i do that the right click menu just stays there for about 2-3secs again, apperantly not doing anything. it slows me down. another thing.. my comp freezes up A LOT! if i have photoshop open, ie open, several images open, and several windows open you'd think my comp would be fine.. but if i go to close, say, photoshop i have to go to the task manager and choose 'end program' which often doesn't work by itself and i end up having to relogin... very annoying. i could go on and on about this but i feel i have no need to. if anyone has any suggestions, comments, or ANYTHING to help on this i'd be muuuucch appreciative. thanks. =)