D.L. Schmidt wrote to Charles Scaglione

DS> CS> If not, something is corrupt. You may have to delete all
DS> CS> accounts and start over.

DS>If I delete all accounts and start over. Will I just have to find all
DS>of the short cuts to my currently loaded software. Or will I have to
DS>reload all of the software on the system?

You won't have to reload software, however, you will have to create 
shortcuts for all your programs and build the desktop over.  
Additionally you will have to move everything from "My Documents" to the
new account.

DS>I have not done anything like this before. So I'm worried about
DS>messing  the system up more than it is now....

That's what backups are for.  I strongly suggest using an imaging 
program such as Norton Ghost or Drive Image to make a backup image of 
your boot/system partition before doing anything.

Something else came to mind...  You said that when you were logged on in
that particular account you could not download updates from the MS 
Critical Update site?  But you can download updates when logged on as 
administrator?

cscag{at}charter.net

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