Tammy, your forum account is set to display images, which means its the browser settings. Tools > Options > Content and ensure images are set to display. Firefox is set correctly at default, so I do not know why it would not show images unless someone has messed with it previously.

Doug, loading windows is actually a correct issue to a point, however; not every six months and not actually required if you know how to fix this. The problem with Windows is that it records every bit of data, and I mean every bit. Every click, recorded. Every choice, recorded. All this is stored on your hard drive and nothing you do manually can remove it, however; one true program does exist that actually does clean your hard drive back to it original form as it will rewrite your space and remove magnetic traces. Its called "Evidence Eliminator" and I believe it is version 6 now. Yes, there are lots of possibly cheaper or more expensive competition to it, but I would not advise it. These people are the original and the absolute best at what this software does. I use it on all my systems usually monthly. I don't enable the features to clean every shutdown or the like, waste of time and space. Instead, you stop it from starting at startup, you manually go into it once a month and let it clean your entire system, then when its finished you restart then defrag, then restart again and your system will be back to scratch just as the day you installed Windows, obviously with the exception your drive will still run at the speed dependant upon how much you have loaded upon it and the type of hard drive.

I run SCSI in my systems at 15000 RPM. My new notebook to buy soon I am ordering with the new solid state hard drives, as they are instant as they have no moving parts. No doubt a better option for desktop PC's also, though not sure if they have them out for desktops or not yet, just seen them as options in notebooks.

I really focused on eliminating as many I/O issues with my new rack systems for optimal speed and performance. Took some time in research, but lets just say our systems here open and close, manage programs and perform instantly regardless what you have open or are doing. All quad core processors, fast drives over large drives, lots of cache, etc. I won't have to touch our systems here for the next five years now....