Haha - coincidence - I just took some grabs of one interesting bit of event log - plus grabs of SERVICES.

I need to work on these, having transfered to main machine via USB flash - and either attach or put pics on my server. One thing in event log is a puzzle and I'd appreciate inoput but - gotta go out so - will post again bit later with grabs.Ok - I'd appreciate some thoughts on these if you would.

I haven't had time to go right thru as yet on services - and had to stitch a load of small grabs together off the (horrible huge) safe mode. ... 2 long images.

I am tho most intrigued to wonder what it is that shows on the events log .. and this grab shows the transistion - from last switch on to latest - the first new boot when it did the trick I STILL have ...... then all these errors for ''Lstone" - plus properties on that. That has me puzzled as I do not recognize it at all.

Lot of later errors show for DCOM - but due to seemingly 'can't run in safe mode'.

Any feedback gratefully received.

[recovering disk space -- attachment deleted by admin]Had you recently installed Pinnacle Studio before storing this PC?

Malware infection may be possible.

Have you done a clean boot? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310353Dias - no, Pinnacle (my old app) was on from a long time ago. In fact it is not used much now. I do not for now suspect malware but not ruling that out.

But ....... BLESS you Sir for reminding about a clean boot.

Three cheers - a clean boot got me in thru a full normal Win boot ..... I now have to go thru a process of elimination and try and find my rogue item. I'll get to that when time but for now at least - you are on the ''kudos'' list!

I'll post back as and when I (hopefully) find the culprit! Thx again.

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No cuprit found so far - this is a tedious sequence of changes and multi reboots! As of now - and gotta quit for the day - have the MS services reinstated and some of the "unknown" category - quite a few to go yet. Just very refreshing to complete a normal boot and achieve a useable desktop, once more, thx to Dias for the reminder on msconfig.

Feedback later when I track down the itinerant item!are u sure that no one else used it when u were not there?
be sure of that first because someone else might have used it and put on that flash drives and it might have corrupted the filesCheck Black Viper's site for a listing of default services and how they should be configured...Quote from: NEO on September 14, 2008, 11:21:29 AM

are u sure that no one else used it when u were not there?

http://www.blackviper.com/