Although some of these answers may seem a bit drastic, they are right. If you run the anti-virus and your system comes up clean, then something youve installed and/or done has corrupted some vital DLLs that Windows requires. Sometimes installing Windows on top of itself will cure this, but not always. It might just be a way for you to waste an additional hour or so. If you want to just skip the installation over the top of Windows, or, in the case of a lot of pre-configured canned systems, you only have a restore CD, youll have to go with a complete reinstallation. Back up your data first (obvious I know, but worth saying). Also any applications that youve done a lot of work with. Here I mean, Bryce. If youve imported a lot of presets, objects and such, these are stored in the Bryce Program directory. This is one reason its a good idea to have at least 2 hard drives (physical ones) in your system. So that you can run critical applications from the 2nd and Windows from the 1st. Also helps to backup one drive to the other, speed wise, then, depending on the type of backup you do, move that to tape or Jaz disk. HTH - James

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