Thanks, Geoff, for the boost.

Thanks, Maggie. I followed your second link which took me to info which led me to a Uniblue RegistryBooster2 program. When I downloaded and scanned my registry with it, it came up with 221 errors of which it would only fix 14 unless I want to pay UK 19.95 for the full version. Are you familiar with it? Is it worth it?

Dear John of Infinite Patience, I disabled WIN Auto updates as that is what WinPatrol told me to do. Should I reinstate it? BTW, there "No Icon" available with this alert which keeps coming up, so I am guessing it is NOT a legit WIN update. Next thing I guess I need to figure out it how to get rid of it. Maybe pay for the program noted above.

Thanks, again!