After spending many hours on the phone with Dell support I have chosen to go a different way.Please any one who can help me I am very appreciative to any suggestions.I have had my dell dimension  2400 for one week now. We have done numerous system restores and even uninstalling and reinstalling windows xp. I have downloaded all of the windows updates.the problem accurs when i open Internet Explorer I can get to my home page and to just about any site but when i go to yahoo or other site and try to play a game i go to games and play after i have to reload the applet several times to load the text. When I am done with that site i close the windows but they are still running in my task bar and will not close or reopen. I have to ctrl+alt+delete to get them to close and a screen pops up saying to end non responsive program.

when i generate the error report it states as follows:

szAppName:iexplore.exe szAppVer:6.0.2800.1106 szModName:hungapp szModver:0.0.0.0 offset:00000000

following files included in report:

c:\Docume~1\Jamie\locals~1\Temp\WER30.tmp.dir00\iexplre.exemdmp

C:\Docume~1\Jamie\locals~1\Temp\WER30.tmp.dir00\appcompat.txt

and i need help with Java when i try to open an applet ...screen says done and nothing is displayed i have to click reload applet to get it to do any thing.

and when i run my cursor over programs in my task bar the info boxes that pops up are blinking you cant read what they say .

please anyone who can help..I am new at computers         Thanks so much