Thanks, I think that solved my problem...but in typical fashion, in a round about way. I tried several combinations of deletions, but they kept coming back, until I deleted the one in the I386 folder. Like one poster commented, Windows squawked that the change might cause system instability, which normally would have stopped me cold. It should have at least caused me to delay long enough for creating a restore point, but the frustration factor was overriding my good sense. Fortunately, it appears to have worked without any problems. At least it rebooted in a normal fashion.