OK I have a P4 1.8 gig CPU with 512 megs kingston ram, dual monitor system running under win2000 with SP3 and all the latest windows updates and service packs. I also have a 60 GIG boot drive partionited to a 15 gig boot drive and 45 gig for starage, also a SCSI 20 gig with a adaptec 2940UW card. Whenever I try to run any .exe ( i can random select one even if its a winzip selfextractor or install .exe file)files it errors and say its creating a error log,and i should restart the program. , ok nothing is showing up in the event viewer for those errors... It was doing this before a little, but now its like all the time every exe, I do have a few things open in my tray, Norton, Norton Ghost, Nvidia quicktweak, and Nvidia Expert tools,Choicemail and ICQ but i have to about close all windows that are open and close those apps that will let me in the tool tray to actually install or use a exe files anymore. what is causing this i am getting real aggravated . I even have a huge swap file set up 768 for drive C and 256 for the other drives, set for application.I noticed back when i had to reload my software and reformat my drive seems the less is on the less or rarely it does this, and yes i hve defragged m drive recently once a month