I know I'm probably ging to be labeled an ignorant Luddite git for saying this, but this is the reason I've stayed with XP Pro.

Vista and Seven have taken away some measures of user control, and often do things you neither expect or want them to. The result is that you find yourself gob smacked with no idea what the hell happened. I deal with this all the time when helping family and friends' maintain their PC's.

A lot of manufacturers don't even include a stand alone system restore disc any more, and force the user rely on a backup image on the hard drive. It's hard cheese if the C drive buys the farm and you lose all of your O.S. resources.

 

Good Luck, William. I hope it's somthing that can be fixed without costing more money and frustration.