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Originally Posted by RWebb

nope no svce call remote or otherwise

I was finally able to roll sys restore back far enuff to get FF looking right - that meant BEFORE MS had performed a critical system update on my system w/o my knowledge via the internet.

BUT... BUT the machine then crashed and I cannot get it restarted.

seems like a big hassle to try and move to a Mac

so, I can either buy a Dell XPS if I wait until May 30 for them to build it (and then a few more days to ship) - cost is $700

or I can go over to Office Depot or Best Buy and pick up a Compaq/hp machine

your insistence that this is hardware related is amusing.