i see it twice a day..?? it's getting less, often they appear after one of microsoft's glorious and no doubt pre-planned upgrades or updates.

I'be probably got a lot of compatibility problems i haven't addressed at all. there is so much stuff connected to this machine, from MIDI interface to .., all sorts of things. For example, there is a problem with the pinnacle capture TV card and EWX 24/96 sound card. if I open 'audio; in pinnacle's prefs while the sound card is enabled, the machine dies, well the app does. I have to disable it and enable the realtek AK 97.
I think the main thing is the explorer where it happens most often and makes me wonder if there is some lurgy virus that's beat my security.