I certainly appreciate your position. But as mentioned in this thread, this is a six year old system and have already spent $170 on a software repair service I will more than likely nerve use again. The problem existed before they went to wot on the system.

It appears Avast anti virus free is working, but I have to manually invoke the UI. Not perfect. I know the UI is working because I added a site to allow javascript that I use frequently.

I checked the HDD partitions. There is a 5GB partition which is probably the factory reinstall. If I use that, XP comes back plus all the updating to SP3. The other option is to do a complete reinstall of Windows 7. If the problem is in the registry, I’m afraid the registry error might still be there with the install that doesn’t lose the data.

HankJS
Newark, DE