and now tell us.. do you think vista is a quality product? lol

Seriously now.. download the shellexview program.. here
[url]http://www.snapfiles.com/get/shellexview.html[/url]

install it, run it, and disable all the non Microsoft shell extensions

then via trial and error seek out which one is the culprit, by re-enabling
the ones you want..
and seeing if the problem re-occurs

Don't worry all changes are reversible....

Tell me if this solves your problem



"brokrbob" <brokrbob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:197B5C31-63B4-4BD8-8842-4C6372974BC6@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have an HP Model a1767c
> Intel Core2CPU 4300 @ 1.8 GHz 1.80 GHz
> 2046 MB
> Windows Vista Home Premium
> I bought Vista with the computer and I already have files I don't want to
> delete and can't back up at this point.
>
> I've tried every proposed solution on every site I found in a search and
> nothing works.
> I've tried System Restore (it failed several times, now I can't even start
> it)
> I've tried opening Event Views (it doesn't open)
> I've tried runas /user:[username that has administrative rights] cmd" (I
> don't have a username with adminrights.)
>
> Please understand, I am not talking about Internet Explorer. That works
> fine.
>[/color]