A very good friend told me to post my problem here because you know everything.

Last week I had to recover my Windows ME system after receiving "operating system not found" and finally a missing reg file after booting up my HP computer. The computer would not boot into Safe Mode and kept telling to run scanreg to find "Enum\htree\root\0/" key. No could do so I recovered using the HP disks.

After reloading most of my programs, my ISP connection, firewall and virus scanner, running scan/disk, defragging and all I installed the critical Windows updates. Things were running well before I installed the updates. Now it takes over a full minute for my Control Panel to open. When I open msconfig and open the startup list it takes over a minute to close the page. This all began after I installed those critical Windows updates. This also occurs whether I am connected to the net or not.

This is effecting only Windows programs. All installed programs open and close without incident. If you need any more info please ask. Thanks in advance.

tigg