It was a virus . We got it running like 5 hours later because my mom called up the Dell people and they told her how to re-install the computer and everything. It was still going on, but it was saying this message: We apologise for the inconvenience but Windows did not start properly.....blah blah blah...then it has you choose whether you wanna go to safe mode or regular mode and then instead of going to the one you chose it just went black. Weird. Well anyways my parents left ME home to install everything so of course the first thing I did was get AOL and go on here . Then I got all the stuff I needed. BTW- on Windows XP you can have like a different desktop for each user, so I had my own like desktop and files-it's almost like having 5 computers but only having one. And you can have a password and stuff and you log onto your computer and it is so cool! I dunno why that matters I just wanted to add that in .