Bates

thanks for the replies guys... Tootech: I installed the video card driver and it resolved the issue with the screen... thank you for your help. BeeCeeBee: Having been left to think about it overnight my PC seems to have resolved it's issues with facebook etc and seems to work fine (?!). I will still be following your clean up steps and will post my results in the near future. Thank you also. Peace guys, Bates

hey, so, I'm staying at my Grandma's for a few weeks. I turn on the pc this morning, it says that a system file has been corrupted. I decide (knowing very little about computers), to just re-install XP Media Center Version 05 and start a-fresh. Now, my Grandma's pc used to give me a lot of trouble... it was just always a little temperamental. However for the few weeks leading up to the system file corruption it was working fine following a bit of remote help from the team at Dell to give it a clean. So, I've re-installed XP and what-not, got AVG, etc. and am now having the most infuriating of problems with both IE and Firefox. They seem to have no problem with loading up hotmail, no problem with google, and no problem with a lot of other sites too... but some sites (most notably facebook) make my browsers cry. I've had a good old fiddle with the security settings to try and get round it but am having no luck. On top of this, whenever i scroll down a webpage it seems to have to buffer (like it gets all jumpy rather than running smoothly down the page). I just want to go back to the way it was!!!!!