COULD YOU PLEASE ANALYZE MY CONNECTION ETC. i KNOW VERY BASIC STUFF. IF THERE IS ANY COVERT OR ADVANCED SETTINGS ON MY CONNECTION I SURE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE CALLED, WHERE THEY COME FROM, IE; ORIGIN. HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN THERE. HOW CAN I PROTECT MY PASSWORDS ONCE THEY ARE SET. HE CAN GET THEM SOMEHOW. I HAVE A DESKTOP PC ALSO. I HAVE PRETTY MUCH GIVEN UP ON THAT UNIT ALTOGATHER. FILES ARE WIERD I EVEN DISCOVERED THAT THERE IS ALOT OF OPTIOS THAT I NEVER KNEW EXISTED BECAUSE THEN I WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE. I HOPE YOU CAN DISYPHER MY INEPT EXPLANATIONS OF THIS STUFF THAT I AM REALLY SO CONFUSED ABOUT. I FOUND A BUNCH OF FILES THE OTHER DAY THAT SAID THAT MY ORIGINAL FILES WERE STRIPPED, MOVED AND HAD DIFFERNT NAMES. I HAVE AN AMD ATHELON K6 PROCESSOR , 64MB OF RAM AND A WESTERN DIGITAL 20 GIG HD. MY HUSBAND GAVE ME MY COMPUTER. I LOST MY COMPAQ PRESARIO 4 GIG LAPTOP ABOUT 1 YEAR AGO. STOLEN FROM MY HOUSE. THIS OTHER COMPUTER WAS TO REPLACE IT SO I COULD RUN MY BUSINESS FROM MY COMPUTER. HOWEVER I CAN NEVER STORE ANY FILES BECAUSE MY FILES GO CRAZY SHORTLY AFTER REFORMATING. THE FILES I LOCATED THE OTHER AM SAID THAT IT WAS "NOT" ALLOWING ME TO  DO A CLEAN BOOT. IT SAID THAT IT WAS LOADING DUMMY FILES. AND THAT I HAD NO HARD DRIVE LEFT AFTER LOADING WIN 98. I THINK THAT I HAD SOMETHING LIKE 2630 MB AFTERWRD. I ALSO READ ABOUT THAT ALL THE MATHMATICAL STATS WERE GAFF TOO. IT SAID THAT CERTAIN FUNCTIONS WOULD BE PROMPTED BY MY SYSTEM AND IT WOULD HAVE A FUNCTION RIGHT AFTER IT TO MAKE SURE IT DIDNOT BUT IT SAID THAT THE WARNINGS WOULD NOT DISPLAY ON THE SCREEN. I FIRST BECAME AWARE OF THESE ACTUAL FILES JUST  A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO. I STUMBLED ACROSS INTER NET EXPLORER FILES THAT WERE ORIGINALLY DISPLAYING THAT THEY WERE CORRUPTED. I WANTED TO SEE WHAT CORRUPTED WAS AND MAYBE GET RID OF THEM. BUT THAT WAS WHEN I FOUND ALL THOSE HIDDEN CONFIG FILES. PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THIS OUT OR TELL ME WHERE I MIGHT GET SOME GUIDANCE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE. LEXIS ADAMS