Thanks for the suggestion /Jim

>>And now it's working OK. And I have no idea of either the cause or what I did to make it go away. Please disregard the previous message ...
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>James.
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>In all cases where my programs started to miss code, or haphazardly slow down, the hard disk went down within a 4 month period. This prompted me to install the ghost software. I respectfully suggest you take measures to ensure *everything* in the HDD is backed up and ready for recovery.