them. Not once has windows or just windows explorer crashed. I've never
even heard of the problem.

Count your blessings. It's been a scourge of mine for several years.

For a while this same type of thing (instant shut-down, no "blue screen of
death" or any warning at all) would happen with Frontpage, too, but
Microsoft seems to have licked that in one of their recent upgrades.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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