On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:26:48 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:

Thanks for the leads. I'll do some more fooling around, and unless I totally
screw the poodle, I'll get back to you.

One of my sons uses XP Home and was complaining about extremely slow
boot ups. I had him run scandisk with the fix option and it cleared up
the problem. I'd suggest you try that before changing the registry -
although changing the registry is often a good road to a complete
reinstall if that's your goal. g
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Charlie...