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I have completed my work as far as HJT! I am still experiencing problems which are most likely related to the shut downs! Here's to hoping I can learn some more on this operating system and be of some use to another person someday!! I downloaded Winpatrol and also took a look at ProcessExplorer. When I was perusing different files I found that I can open many things but the System Volume is one I can not get into to even look at!

Maybe I'm not suposed too! I have been to quite a few site's and read some advice on regedit's for security issues in 2K and when I tryed to find the values behind the verbs in the exe. I can not open the tree(persistenthandler) is there???? When I downloaded a Zip utility for some reason it has attached itself to the Outlook quick launch button and even more freaky is the fact that now when I click My Computer it opens with in seconds as opposed to minutes! Also when I tryed some of the online AV scans it said the process couldn't be done as I needed explorer 5 or better??? The HJT log says I am running 6! When I got this prompt I then went to Windows and downloaded IE6 again but it says it can't load because of something else running! Not sure of what the heck to do! But could this be why I can't get into Outlook! Also it is now 10:00 am and since mid night Zone Alarm has stopped 285 intrusion attempts is this normal! Any help would be greatltly appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Edited by whattheheckisthis, 27 August 2006 - 10:06 AM.