just started happening recently but occasionally (a few days a week) my laptop freezes and a blue screen pops up with the message "pen list corrupt" and a screen full of text that i dont get enough time to read before it closes down and restarts. this is then met with a message window stating that "windows has recovered from a serious error". a direct result of this is that the computer does not recognise the wireless adapter i have for a lenghty period of time and could well have caused other unnoticable effects (im not very good with computers).

any help on how to fix/avoid this would be much appreciated

oh and i dont know if this will help or not but its xp professional