Ronaldo Shepherd

Hi a couple of suggestions (some things have already been said that you should consider seriously). 1) Never Never run anything in Windows 95 mode unless it is a program from the Windows 95 era. Windows 95 is a 16 bit system. XP is a 32 bit system. Second Life will not run on 16 bit systems. The only reason you would want to use Win95 mode is if you are running software produced before Windows 98SE was released in about 1999. The version of Windows 98 before Win98SE was capeable of running in 32 bit mode but didn't do it well. Win98SE was really the first Windows 32 bit operating system for home computers. It is very possible that running in Windows 95 mode is messing with your network adaptor and/or with your firewall. 2) You need more RAM as Peggy Paperdoll pointed out. Your computer is overloaded before you even try to log in to Second Life. 3) You say you updated your antivirus software just before the issues. Peggy gave some very good discussion about the load you computer is running. Your updated antivirus could very likely be using more of the computer's resources than the previous version. 512 megs of RAM is not enough to run much of anything. The computer I'm typing this on is running Windows XP. It has 2 gigs of RAM (4 times what your computer has) and it is using 43% of that as it idles. My computer has 880 mb of RAM (368 mb more than you have) "in use" with no heavy duty programs running. Your computer will be slow as molasses because in order to run anything it will be using your Hard Drive Cache to offload what should/could be running in RAM. Your system has an AGP video card so it is likely in the era of DDR RAM. It will have at least two RAM slots which in DDR era tecnology limits you to two 1 gig sticks. The odd computer in that era had 3 slots, and the occasional one had 4. Used RAM from that era is quite cheap and plentiful on used technology sites. 4) You are using a GeForce 7600 GS/AGP/SSE2 graphics processor which has its own graphics processor and memory. That is likely why your machine was ble to limp its way into Second Life Even though it has its own video memory and GPU, it is close to if not at the very bottom of the Second Life capeable video cards. It is an AGP card so that indicates your system is probably 2002 vintage. It is not new and fast technology -- just a steady old workhorse. 5) As Peggy points out, your video driver is not up to date. That will help, but it likely won't change whether you get to log in. It will just run better once you do log in. 6) Although as Peggy suggests the second message is likely unrelated to your log in problems, you should check that you are running the latest version of Quick Time. Webkit is the Browser that Viewer 2 uses and it should update as you update Quick Time.Once you have downloaded and installed Quick Time from the Apple site it will install Apple Software Update which should notify you when updates are available. 7) Go to this page: http://secondlife.com/support/systest.php and click the "Can You Run It?" button. The application runs better for me in Internet Explorer that other browsers. You will have to say yes to install the scanner and it will take a minute or two to deliver the verdict. It will tell you exactly what your computer needs to run Second Life. I have no idea why that link isn't out and very visible for everyone.