worth a shot

though I gave up trying to get my comp to defrag about a month ago, 5, 7 hour long attempts in 3 days and they all failed while nothing was running ie anti virus stuff or internet connections

I had the same prob a while ago (last year some time).
I ended up (on the advice of my computer shop man) doing a System Restore to a point before the prob started. This fixed the problem but of course it means that any programs you installed after the restore date will have to be re-installed. However, you won't lose saved files etc.
P.S. What mine was doing was - when it got to 2 or 3% of the defrag process a message came up that said something like "there has been activity on the disc, defrag will start again" and it just kept doing it over and over. Is this your problem?
P.S You have to defrag. If you don't, technically your your PC will just get slower and slower.
I've been told that some ISP's filter the sites that you can access (for some silly reason). AOL do it alot. I'm with AOL and I get the "page cannot be displayed" message alot and I asked AOL about a couple of particular sites that I constantly could not access to (not adult sites!

) that I could get on the PC at the office (cable connection with Australian ISP) and they told me that I cannot necessarily get access to everything on the WWW on my type of account (although I have no idea what sort of content that includes or what criteria are used).
Anyway..............good luck!
