Hello Trish, glad to hear you can carry on working. I thought the update might of made a mess of your system, the system restore you had already done may have removed the update ( officially! ).

After altering the start value in your registry I was going to suggest using a registry cleaner, next time you run a disk check have a look at the comments after each stage and it will tell you if it fixed any errors and how many it fixed.

It's up to you if you want to try a registry cleaner considering that so far everything is working again, but I will give you a word of warning, if you do use one don't always just clean everything that it has found as sometimes there can be another explanation as to why the registry cleaner has flagged an entry. Inexperience could lead you to deleting something that you need.

However it does also tidy up your registry and make you PC run that little bit more smoothly especially after a failed installation. If you decide to try one you can just use a trial version that won't let you delete everything but it will show you all of the obsolete entries and help you in making a decision on wether you should use a cleaner or not.
And you could always get back to us at Syschat for some more friendly advise!

Finally, make sure you are running a Defrag at least once a week, and a Disk Check at least once a month to keep on top of your PC.

Regards

Martin

P.S. I've just started to learn some .asp for web design, can't get some code to work. Do you know anything about IIS.7.0 and 'Select Case'? It doesn't want to work!

A question....
 

Hey Martin,
Wanted to get back to you - gives me another chance to thank you - you have no idea how good it was to have a 'virtual friend' out here when my computer totally freaked out.
If I did want to try out a registry (scary word) cleaner - is there one you might suggest that would be good to try - there are certainly a ton of programs out there claiming to do so. And yup, I am a total novice when it comes to that.
Any suggestions you could make would be appreciated. I also completely understand if you don't care to do that.

I do run defrag and disk check every week - just to keep things shipshape. This oddball thing came up in between doing both, as it was a Tuesday - and I normally do all that stuff on the weekend.

As for "asp" for web design - I am sorry I can't help you with that. I don't use that - just stick to straight html & css - and even in that, I write my own code - the 'helper' programs take away the control, and I don't like that. My way may be slower, but I know what each little thing I do will create.

Thanks again,
Trish

Try this one: Eusing Free Registry Cleaner: Safely scan and repair registry problems - Spyware FREE..

It's free and has plenty of good reviews and awards from several reputable sites. If you use it and need any help, print the screen and post it and I'll advise you on its' use.
I've used these before and it deleted some photos that I didn' want deleting, so if the scan comes up with any image files etc. then check the location and the file before fixing the problem.

Don't worry too much though as nearly all of these programs come with a restore option.

Regards

Martin

Thanks much, Martin - I will go try that out.

Trish