Amen brother. My XP crashes almost nightly. You are lucky. I don't get anything back that i was downloading. Files that are completed are not affected. You have my sympathies. Glad I don't have your cat, or any cat for that matter. When it comes back up, are all the files you were trying to DL in red? If so, do you know what the red means? I have yet to be able to restart a file in the red. If figure how to make LW Pro and XP fly in formation, let me know, please.