My OS is 98 2nd edition. I have alays run regular maintenance and never had any real problems. As of late the machine runs SLOW...real slow. I switched to cable a few months ago. My niece runs AIM and leaves in on 24-7 and that's when the problems seem to have started. I have run all of the spy-ware etc. suggested on this site a d removed everything it found. I regularly dump the temp files, defrag, etc. I do the ctrl-alt-delete thing to sgut down all programs running in the background when I defrag. I always take it down to explor and systry. There is now a Winmgmt there that WILL NOT turn off. Could this be causing a problem or is the AIM causing a problem or??? Please help. Thanks.