Good luck Zero [img]smile.gif[/img]
Computers are amazing pieces of technology but are very daunting and rather scarey for us non computer minded humans. What you are going through is a learning curve that most computer owners go through (and continue to go through), me included [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]
Heres a little story:
Recently we received an anonymous email. We always dont open these emails but murphys law happened and it was accidently opened. Our virus scanner found a virus was attached! We deleted the email but further scanning found that a virus had attached itself to a file in the RESTORE program (we have win ME)
The virus scanner could not delete the file. I tried to manually remove the file but windows kept saying that it was in use and could not be deleted,,,,,,,,grrrrr.
I remembered from my days of playing DOS games that files can be deleted in DOS. So I went to the DOS prompt but still could not get rid of it. Windows still stopped me. ME has DOS well intergrated in it.
So I found my ME start up floppy. I started the pc with the floppy and was able to get straight into DOS without windows starting. Once that happened I went to the file and was able to delete it [img]graemlins/finger2.gif[/img]
Moral of the story. All the heartache that you are having now will one day allow you to fix another problem you have and just maybe allow you to help someone else
I have found that most ppl at Ironworks are always more than willing to help. Perhaps they remember the days when they were too were struggling with ...program errors, blue screens, corrupted files, fatal error windows, etc. I sure as heck havent forgotten [img]graemlins/crying.gif[/img]
Knip