i think somthing serious happened to my other laptop...i cam back and it was shut off so i turned it on and while it was starting up it like started doing a disk clean-up check or somthin and it went through all thes files and like deleted 47 of em or somthing....then after it was done it restarted and now heres where the problem starts....after it restarted the screen that says windows 2000 profession like the first screen u see it goes there and then it like freezes for 30 seconds and a blue screen quickly pops up then it restarts and keeps cdoing this over and voer and over again and wont ever fully turn on...i kept doing it so i could try to read the blue screen and it says like the word "hive" and it said a file couldnt be found (i could catch the name of it) and then it said physical memory dump has been completed contact your local adminastrator or somthing...is this because of a virus and anyone know how to fix this? also is physical memory dump when ALL my stuff gets deleted??? its a dell laptop with windows 2000 professional