I am now (since the install of SE) having newsgroup problems. On large binary newsgroups with over 5000 messages when I try to combine and download I get "unknown error occurred ) about halfway through the DL. Also I cannot access some news groups because it says "unable to display this folder" possible causes full disk or low memory. Ok I have about 10 gigs of HD space ( a 500 meg swapfile ) and 256 megs of ram. Exactly how much ram do I need to open a news group. This never happened even with groups with 8000+ messages with the older windows versions.