Yeah, it bugs me that when I turn on and boot up my comp I see smilies makin' ugly faces at me, all the time
And lately my comp fails to boot up 2/10 X.

And the thing is is that I keep as best I can to eliminate spyware and such, but they are very persistant.

I just put IE behind my firewall again, so I'll see if slows down (the ads), Firefox is much better, my first step to open license. Seems when I give IE permission to run I get swamped with ads and spyware.

What a pest!

Thanks a lot for your help, you've assisted me very well, and I am much clearer now, my last post was submitted at the same time as yours so, some of my Q's were already answered in your last post.