Sorry, my mistake, I skimmed your not-scanned list too quickly I guess. :-[ I saw “E” many times and that threw me, but looking more carefully there’s no reference to anything on other drives, real or virtual.

As for the rest of it, I’ll leave the question of whether a re-installation might help to the tech experts, it was just an idea that occurred to me. I’m mildly surprised that you say you’d need to uninstall from safe mode, if you have admin privileges with your new profile, but there’s all kinds of things about XP I’m still learning.

Best,
Mike