Have you run your anti-virus software lately? Also get an anti-spyware program such as Ad-aware http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/ which is free and run that. After that, go to the internet explorer icon on your desktop (the big "e") and right click on it. Left click on properties and then delete cookies, delete files and clear history.

**NOTE** after you delete cookies, you will need to re-sign into everything - like Pet Talk, so before you delete the cookies, make sure you remember all your user id's and passwords.

Once you do all this, go to Programs, Accessories, System Tools. Do a Disk Cleanup and a Disk Defragment and restart your computer.

This will all take some time, but if you've never done it, it will probably clean out a lot of junk and re-organize your computer so it runs a little faster.

**NOTE** if any screen comes up that you're not sure what to do with it, just cancel out and don't perform the action. This way you shouldn't do any damage that you won't be able to reverse.

Hope this helps and I sure hope the gray long haired cat is Maggie, that would be so wonderful!!!