HI

Checked out forum thread and found your response.No email notification was rcvd, No idea why.

Regarding anti-virus, I use zonealarm security suite which I was under the impression had both anti-virus and anti-spyware incorporated. Is that not so?

My location is Germany but Windows installed in English (due to language difficulties)

At one time AOL was my ISP but no longer. It is obvious that there are entries still show them as such. My new ISP is Hansenet and based in Hamburg as suggested. I suppose my domain is shown automatically (forgive my basic knowledge in these matters).

Regarding previous thread which involved reinstallation, as far as I can remember it had a lot to do with WMP11 which was just not installing correctly - installed process always mentioned something to with WMP9 even though I was trying to update to WMP11. T/4 decided to start from scratch whereby was then able to update to wmp11.

In all honesty I must admit only after noticing that my msconfig page was being activated on each startup that it dawned on me that the system.ini section was completely blank. Even though it is no longer starting up automatically, the system.ini section is still blank.