Thanks Remoc! There's a couple of suggestions in your thread. I've already used the offline install for both Java and LW so I think next I'm gonna go the "XP compatability route" and see what happens. One thing that's really weird is that if my memory is correct I had LW successfully running on this new machine for a few days and then one day it stalled at 12% and has been that way since? Also, you can't use Task Manager to shut down, you have to do a manual shutdown. I'll post my results later...good or bad!