Hi, recently my PC has been sluggish and crashing with a drwatson postmortem debugger error at times when i open a folder on my desktop or have multiple windows(4) open, i have not installed any new driver or hardware at all. I have posted in the hijackthis section of the forum for help and they directed me here to solve my problem. I hope you can help with my problem. Thanks.

What error messages are you getting?

have you done any hardware tesst yet? dl a memtest-"memtest 86" the iso version, boot to it, it will test the memory, if you are having trouble opening up multiple windows, and is slow, you may want to do this simple test too/first
http://www.memtest86.com/
go here

Hm not sure how to boot the iso verison the tutorial on the website was not very good.

if you can download the "iso" image, and if you have a burning program which recognizes iso images, like nero, then you should be able to make a disc out of the image, and all you have to do then, is simply put it into your master cd rom drive, and boot into it.
let me know if you understood.
dave

Yep i understood. Thanks.

was it bad ram? even if you get 1 bad address, change your ram, it should do a series of tests, 7 i think, and it will continue to loop and do "passes" after 1 complete pass that should do.

Hm no it wasnt bad ram. It occured to me it might be because I almost filled up my Hard drive (it only had 1gb left on it out of 40gb) but i freed 20gb off it and it still locks up at times when I'm multi-tasking. I've done error checking on my Harddrive before too.

lol, what brand of drive you have?
you should download the hard drive tests from the appropriate web site and run them like the ram tests. iso images.
www.maxtor.com
www.wdc.com
www.ibm.com
ww.samsung.com
test this too, also important, you could lose valuable info if not.
let m eknow how you made out!