Recent content by stumblingdevil

Well, folks, I never could eradicate or truely identify the root cause. I bought an external hard drive, backed up the files from safe mode, and did a factory setting reimage. Am up and running again. Have ordered the XP Downgrade recovery CD and will convert to XP next week. Wish I had better...

No changes that I am aware of, possible that my son clicked on a viewer update, but he does not recall. Compounding this is th eoperating system will not allow me to write to a CD or thumb-drive, so backing up is currently a problem

I went in and tried that, the only restore points listed were 6 days ago, tried those restore points but the problem remained. I can not get through a windows update cycle or just about any admin task without getting the retstart message. It will not allow me to use backup and restore. I have a...

It appears that in the past week, my system has become infected and now continuously retarts explorer and limits all administrative rights. I have come up in safe mode and checked for newly added programs, run spyware doctor, adjusted DEP, but have had no luck in stemming the problem. Except in...