lbevil

Just a brief follow-up. I've looked through the manual but haven't locked in on a possible problem area yet. I ran a CHKDSK last night and the hard drive checked okay. I ran a couple registry cleaners this morning and they found several errors. I fixed the errors and then ran one of the programs that was shutting me down. This one was dvdprofiler. Today, it operated okay, even with a large download of dvd data. I then checked my disk utility System Mechanic and when it got to the disk optimization portion, it shut down the laptop. I booted back up and ran the disk optimization utility from the disk properties section and it ran okay. Right now I am suspicious of my System Mechanic utility. My problem may be software related, rather than hardware. I left the unit on for over three hours this morning and no shutdown. Yesterday, when I first turned the unit on, after sitting idle for 9 months, the battery had to charge all the way up. Naturally my AC Adapter got very hot. Now, with the unit plugged it, and the battery charged up, it is running cool. Thanks again for your help.