Judy - No, I don't use ACT. I'm in the process of running AVG Anti Rootkit. I'm in normal startup mode - it's been running for better than 3 hours but I'm at 95%.

Just seems like there's tons of stuff running or trying to run that slows things down to a crawl.

I'll send the list of programs that auto start as soon as this one's done & before I begin the others. Should I try running HJT in normal or safe mode startup for this?

pk