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Ah, Thing is I (ahem) upgraded from 98 as the PC kept crashing - ie rebooting and locking up etc, Since putting Win ME on the PC has been a lot more stable.

My computer really struggles with defrag - I usually have to do it in safe mode from bios boot-up. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. If I try defrag from windows ME it will just keep restarting itself untill it gives out an error message. Scandisk works fine but again I usually get the restart error. Last time PC got a scandisk and defrag was last month, and I've only just stuck in the PIII 700! I was struggling with a PII 333! I've got 2149 tracks on PC, some of the tracks are 60+ minutes, I should tidy it up a bit as some of the files are talking books for my kids, I did have the intention of setting up the minidisc in their rooms for night time bed stories but I find reading to them to be more fun. Again, thanks for all the help!

Thanks guys, I installed SS3.2 - rebooted PC and then clicked on optimize - 2 hours later - all working! Cheers!

Whenever I click on Optimize database in the options menu, sonicstage nicely tells me to close down any other programs that are running and that it may take a few minutes to finish optimization of the database. How long is a few minutes? I waited for 6 hours and nothing happend! No hardrive activity, no feedback from the program ie % or time remaining. I eventually had to close sonicstage via the taskmanager ! Sonicstage still works ok but i can't help thinking that if the database was optimised it would be that much quicker! Anybody have any ideas about optimization? Windows Me 384MB ram 160+Gb harddrive 700Mhz pIII Sonicstage 3.1

PII 350Mhz 380Mb RAM Windows ME I've downloaded Sonicstage 3.1 from sony uk site, everything installed correctly but when i rebooted the pc to finish installation i got the following message during boot up "OMG1to2 caused an error in Kernal 32". I've then restarted the machine but to no avail, I keep getting the same message when i try to restart sonicstage. I've reinstalled sonicstage 3.1 and have turned off my firewall, but still u/s - H E L P ! ! !