Scott
I'm telling you been there done that 3 times and have the T shirt, it's in those "$uninstalls" Those are Windows updates and somewhere in there is a problem. Not knowing exactly where, I have uninstalled all of them 3 times and each time it has corrected the problem that you are talking about. It is a long tedious task, because one has to restart after each uninstall and it scares one by saying "are you sure you want to uninstall this because X won't work if you do. None of those came with your pc though, they came in updates from MS's site and the pc's run fine without any of them.
Again, you can always reinstall them at any point, just by start>windows update.
Terry
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jam on,
Terry
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