In news:8uadnWjBboZCRiTeRVn-pA@adelphia.com,
Don Cohen <doncohen@lens-cap.alltel.net> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Galen,
>
>> As it's XP Home you needn't worry about EFS. Thank you for all the
>> information, if only every post was as complete but not full of
>> information not needed. I suspect that you're daughter's profile
>> has, for one reason or another, become corrupted. It's a fairly
>> mundane fix. Corrupt Profile:
>> http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general...t_profile.html
>>
>> --
>> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
>> http://dts-l.org/
>> http://kgiii.info/
>
> Thanks much for the reply and link. It'll probably be Wednesday
> before I'll have time to try this out, but I'm hopeful that this will
> do it. I actually gave some thought to creating a new User Profile,
> but didn't follow-up on it.
>
> I'll repost when I know if this fixes it or not.
>
> Best,

Yes, please do. As Rock's mentioned it's possible that you're infested with
malware. Checking in safe mode with the latest definitions and scanning with
multiple vendor applications is one way to ensure that you're 99% confident
that you're clean. (There's no such thing as 100% certainty, that's a myth,
if the PC is connected to the 'net at all AND if anyone other than yourself
has access and capability of knowing what's installed with each
application.) I'm rather curious as to the results of this and hope that
you're able to figure it out.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes