Subj : Re: Win 2000 Pro Error? To : D.L. Schmidt From : Charles Scaglione Date : Fri Apr 11 2003 05:13 pm D.L. Schmidt wrote to Charles Scaglione DS> CS> If not, something is corrupt. You may have to delete all DS> CS> accounts and start over. DS>If I delete all accounts and start over. Will I just have to find all DS>of the short cuts to my currently loaded software. Or will I have to DS>reload all of the software on the system? You won't have to reload software, however, you will have to create shortcuts for all your programs and build the desktop over. Additionally you will have to move everything from "My Documents" to the new account. DS>I have not done anything like this before. So I'm worried about DS>messing the system up more than it is now.... That's what backups are for. I strongly suggest using an imaging program such as Norton Ghost or Drive Image to make a backup image of your boot/system partition before doing anything. Something else came to mind... You said that when you were logged on in that particular account you could not download updates from the MS Critical Update site? But you can download updates when logged on as administrator? cscag@charter.net CMPQwk 1.42 1262 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) .