I have been having problems when closing downmy Toshiba P100 notebook to find the "Program Closing down" end now or cancel message appearing. This is happening more and more often, and now is happening with the program RecordNow. Previously it was Adobe. I do close these programs down, but for some reason they appear at shut down. I use my computer, and I mean use it, for well over 12 hours a day as I am a daytrader, so I need a high speed computer. I have also noticed that sometimes pages appear to tremble and when using favorites there is a stop and go movement.

I run Adaware, Spybot daily, but still get these problems.
I do the Microsoft automatic updates.

Now today I have the problem when starting that it takes ages (at least 5 minutes) before the icons appear but nothing on the taskbar (the bottom right hand side) and the mouse "arrow" changes to the eggtimer when moved to the taskbar. I realise that the computer is still trying to load, but why is it taking so long. It is now nearly an hour since I switched on but still nothing is happening. (Obviously I am using a different computer My Old Faithful Asus to write this message).


thanks - Tilly
XP Pro with SP2.