Well I believe it's fixed. When I said I was done I was publicly admitting defeat so I could go on to the next step that all good computer techs take when they can't fix something. Reinstall Windows. I almost went back to Win2K as that disc is from MS and is a retail OS. The one from Toshiba is a recovery disc and it installs all of the typical crap. AOL etc. In removing this stuff before I probably messed something up. I was very careful this time. Just used add/remove programs, ran CCleaner once & ran Registry Mechanic once. I have XP SP3 and don't use this thing on the Internet so I'm not even going to do the updates. Everything is running. No shut down process, no disabled hardware. two computers networked. Running Three sound cards. So far RB runs very smoothly.
I'm afraid I'm one of the people that live by this motto:
"If it ain't broke fix it until it is"


John
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