Also, I always hibernate my PC, but had to reboot due to install of software upgrades and now my PC takes so long to boot – need help in figuring this out please!
Ya, I actually tried that and no luck! Not sure what caused it to stop working; I do know that it had something to do with the skin as the classic skin works, but this works hardly ever. The 2 program are BrCtrCen.exe & BrccMCtl.exe.
By skin, do you mean Theme? XP comes with two themes.
Windows XP
Windows Classic
Is this the Classic that works.
Windows XP does not work?
Are you trying to use a modified/custom theme?
Try creating a new Administrator level user account then logon with it and see if the problem occurs or not.