About two weeks ago for no reason a problem started, every time I open a program I get a "run as" window. It asks me to either run as the current user or to switch to one of the other user accounts. I run win xp pro and I turned off secondary login and disabled it. It is not on. Also, at the same time outlook express decided to stop letting me connect to my email server. I scanned the computer with Norton and housecall, and nothing came up. Any ideas?What m$oft updates have you got?have a look in the event VIEWER log for more?WINXP logs everything..I got my email working, seems like my spam blocker was causing problems. It was changing the incoming server to a router ip address or something like that.

As far as I know, I have all the windows updates except for the service pack 1. I forget what day this all started, but I did notice that all of a sudden about the time this all started, in the event viewer, I get information events from a source "service control manager". Can you tell me what I should look for. I have no idea what i'm doing.Nevermind, I got it fixed. I got the answer from another forum that said a subkey was MISSING for EXE files. I dunno what it all meant, but the problem is SOLVED thank god. Thanks for your reply though.