HI Barb,

How much memory do you have in this computer? When yousay the computer "froze", could you get the task manager up by pressing ctrl-alt-delete, or had it crashed completely? The task manager will show you what else is running. You can also add "I/O bytes read" and "I/O bytes written" tothe columns in the process display to see if any task is reading or writing to the disk (which might make the task you're woking on seem to have crashed).