It was a repair install that solved this weird problem, caused by M$. Until next week then, I cannot help to think what is going to go wrong with this laptop by next week.

Thanks jbennet, I will look into that tomorrow, it is time for me to go to bed now, 10 to midnight.

Goooooogle is full of other people with the same problems. I tried a couple of the suggested repairs, even the ones from M$ as well, and no luck.

I recon I must do a repair install now. This...

Hi jbennet

Thanks for responding. Yes, I did try restore. As stated earlier:


I tried your suggestion to do the scf /scannow from safemode with the cd in, and got the following error in the...

Laptop, Amilo Pro, operating Windows XP Pro SP2

After the automatic windows update downloaded some security updates from the MS update site, the laptop in question behaved very strange.

1. The...